About Us

Crying Out Loud produces high quality voice-over CDs at extremely competitive rates. Our approach is slightly different from that of our competitors in that we offer a 90 minute consultation a week or so before the recording session where we select all the material for the CD and you get a Director and Producer for the recording session. This means that we can keep recording time to a minimum, usually just an hour and a half. In our experience, we have found that rather than compromising the quality of the CD, this focuses both actor and creative team alike.

Marina Caldarone - Biog

Marina is Drama Director at Crying Out Loud. She was a theatre director for 18 years – including time as Associate Director of Theatr Clwyd and Artistic Director Queens Theatre Hornchurch. And she enjoyed an extensive freelance theatre-directing career in Britain and abroad, directing over 100 productions at last count.  She has been a regular lecturer on contemporary theatre since 1998 and continues to work as a guest director in London’s leading Drama schools and has run workshops for professional actors and directors at The Actors Centre since 1986. 

She has been a freelance radio drama producer since 1999 working both within the BBC radio drama department, and with Pier Productions and Fiction Factory.

She co-wrote Actions, An Actors’ Thesaurus with Maggie Lloyd Williams – an acting book, which is now set text in most drama schools in Britain and many in the States.  And also 3 new radio monologue and duologue publications Radioactive, compiled with Marilyn le Conte and published by Methuen books.  She has just completed The Good Audition Guides published by Nick Hern Books.

And is an Acting Coach in television and theatre.

Expansion Of Radio
The recent development of digital radio has created even greater scope for actors to break in to the rewarding world of radio - the ongoing development and expansion of the medium means that much more drama is guaranteed to be produced. In addition to the BBC there are currently over eighty independent radio companies producing drama, and the list is continually growing. An actor can earn more from one lucrative voice-over job than he or she could through can make through a year's continuous Rep employment, and yet the majority of actors neglect the medium and are not equipped with an adequate showcase of their voice and audio work.

What You Need To Do

  • Book an 90 minute appointment with our Director Marina to select material
  • We will select up to three speeches to show your dramatic range
  • We will select one narrative prose selections of differing styles
  • We will select some factual text that could be a voice-over for a TV doc
  • We will select a range of commercials suitable for your vocal range
  • You need to bring a photocopy of everything to the recording session.

Cancellations

Should you cancel the recording session you will be charged for the consultation, unless you re-schedule straight away. The charge will be £40.

There will be a charge of £58.75 for cancelling the recording session with less than 48 hours notice, this is to cover lost studio time.

If you cancel the session with less than 24 hours notice you will be charged the full rate as we cannot re-use the slot again with such short notice.

Any Questions?
If you have any questions or queries please let us know. You can call our Director, Marina Caldarone on 07946 533108 or our Producer, Simon Cryer on 07796 266265

 

  
 
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