audio’connell in seattle part 2
I went to a high school that is renowned for pushing out lawyers, doctors and other big time muckety-mucks.
What they were not known for is graduating voice-over talents so I am not and will not be a star alumnus. Yeah, the comedian Mark Russell was a graduate as was Tim Russert but they were anomalies (and they had, you know…talent!!)
The point here is that, no I didn’t go to any high school resembling “Fame” and there’s rarely been any kind of business connection between anyone in my graduating class of Canisius High School and me. It is what it is.
Or maybe it was what it was because a connection WAS made this trip that tied my professional life to my high school.
About a year ago, a high school friend of mine, Trip Fanning, invited me over to his house in Seattle with his lovely wife and terrific children and he mentioned he knew a voice talent that I should meet. This voice talent was the wife of a guy, Mark Curtain, who I graduated high school with. Mark’s parents were pals with my parents and I had the great pleasure to play golf with Mark’s parents years ago when they and I belonged to the same golf club.
Mark’s wife is female voice-over talent Grace Regis Bennett who I finally got to meet on this trip, over a year after Trip suggested it (and I didn’t get to see the Fannings which Trip won’t care so much about but his wife is going to be pissed 😉 ).
What an amazing journey her voice-over has taken. Most recently she worked with some fella named Scott Burns on a new commercial demo and her wonderful talent resonates from beginning to end.
She’s been off the voice-over grid outside of Seattle but is looking to come back in a big way. If you’re a production house or agency looking for her demo, feel free to reach out to me and I’ll put you in touch with her.
