Jonathan Murphy
Redwood City, CA, United States
Highlights
Jonathan Murphy is a Cabinet of Curiosities...His brain holds the craziest collection of cool, offbeat, quirky characters and many clients have tapped into it! He specializes in game & animation voices, middle-earth type characters, monsters, announcer, geek speak, and vintage radio styles.
Languages
English (North American), English
Accents
English, Irish
Ages
Teen, Young Adult
Special Skills
Cartoons, Videogames, Podcasting, Television, Internet
Experience
If you visit Great America theme park (www.cagreatamerica.com) in California, you'll hear Jonathan Murphy's voice throughout the park doing a variety of characters to announce the live shows. He is also the narrator for their Star Tower ride. Owned and operated by Cedar Fair Entertainment Co., they recently recorded Jonathan as the evil "Overlord" for the Haunt at Great America and many of their other major theme parks across the U.S.
Jonathan is "Danger Dude" on the upcoming national release of "The Grand Scream of Things" for for kindie recording artist AndyZ (www.andyz.com.) He got the gig because of his voice versatility and his plucky cockney accent!
Elaine Clark (VoiceOne) has been Jonathan's director for the voices he does seasonally for Verizon and for a prototype toy. She says, “Jonathan is a director’s dream. He comes in with great ideas and embraces direction. I can ask him to do four things and he'll do them all, plus add additional unexpected elements to his performance.”
He is represented by Look Talent Agency in San Francisco.
Jonathan Murphy also performs for the Festival Theatre Ensemble in their annual Los Gatos Shakespeare Festival. His roles have included Horatio in Hamlet, Touchstone in As You Like It, Bottom in Midsummer's Night's Dream, Algernon in The Importance of Being Earnest and was in drag as Lord Fancourt Babberley in Charley's Aunt.
His complete resume is at jonincharacter.com.
Credentials
Education
Jonathan Murphy has an A.A. in theater arts from the Foothill Theatre Conservatory. He has studied voiceover for the last 10 years at VoiceOne in San Francisco with extensive training in characters, dialects, ADR Looping, and on-camera acting from noted industry professionals including Bob Bergen,Ned Lott,Holly Dorff, Terry McGovern,Elaine Clark, and Mark Evanier.
Studio
Microphone
MXL USB Mic
Computer & Software
PC
Special Equipment
studio reflection filter, pop screen
Delivery Methods
e-mail, upload to FTP, US mail
Turnaround Time
within 24 hours
Service Description
Voiceover
Copywriting
Testimonials
Elaine Clark, VoiceOne
Jonathan is a director’s dream. He comes in with great ideas and embraces direction. I can ask him to do four things and he'll do them all, plus add additional unexpected elements to his performance.
Holly Dorff, hollydorff.com
Jonathan Murphy is an inspirational person. He is a multi talented voiceover artist! I truly enjoyed having him in my classes...he surprises you with his imagination.
Andy Zamenes, Andy Z (andyz.com)
I am a children's/family music recording artist, singer-songwriter and performer who recently cast Jonathan Murphy as the voice of "Danger Dude" for my fifth studio album, a Halloween adventure titled "The Grand Scream Of Things"- produced by the Grammy-nominated Tor Hyams ( www.tor.net ), and scheduled for national release in 2012. I had great difficulty finding a voiceover artist who could play the part of this young teenage slightly "punk" teenage character, until we found Jonathan. He was able to find the accent and style we were looking for, reproduce it immediately, and even add to it. Both Tor and I were impressed with him right away, and his substantial contribution to this audioplay has greatly enhanced it and brought it to a level of quality worthy of an "official" national release. I highly recommend him.
Troy Johnson, Director
"This was my first time working with Jonathan, and I was very impressed with his dedication
to making sure he was giving me what I wanted from his character, and he took every piece
of direction I gave him and ran with it. He was continually looking for ways to add to the show
(in the good way!) throughout rehearsals. At a recent performance he made a "save" to a
moment when things could have gone awry that showed he was not only in character, but
thinking smartly about how to set things right and make a mistake by another actor look like
it was supposed to happen all along -- it was brilliant. I'd happily cast Jonathan again in
the future."
Thomas Tissot, California's Great America
"I've had the great pleasure of working with Jonathan on many different types projects while at California's Great America. Jonathan has provided Great America with an immense range of different voices and characters, quickly becoming our “go to guy” in all voiceover requirements. I am consistently impressed by Jonathan's speed and efficiency; he always delivers exactly what is needed, quickly and professionally. He is great at taking direction, and will always work to develop his different voices until they sound like exactly what was envisioned. He is also extremely creative, often coming up with new and different ideas that often work better than what was originally planned. I look forward to working with Jonathan in the future!"
Client List
Cedar Fair Entertainment Co.Great America Theme Park
Donnerwood Media for Verizon
Oracle
AndyZ.com
Elaine Clark, VoiceOne
Nesting Newbies
Guilt by Association Productions
Inner Glow Pictures
Payment Terms
Hire Jonathan for voice over work. Payment is made through Voices.com SurePay, an escrow service that guarantees your work is done to your satisfaction. Send payment securely by Visa, Mastercard or PayPal through Voices.com then download your files from the website.
