About Connie Terwilliger

Full-time voice talent working out of professional studio for clients around the world providing high quality VO for narration, eLearning, commercials, animation, telephony and more.

Back on stage after the world stopped for COVID

So, back in June, I was Rose in Neil Simon’s last play “Rose and Walsh.” First time on stage since COVID shut down production in March of 2020 and left 3 weeks of “The Hollow” unfinished.

After 3 years, and 2 bouts of COVID could I still remember lines – a LOT of lines? That was the big question. Apparently I could. What a thrill to be the lead in such a fun play with such wonderful actors. Lee Price played Walsh, Ruth Russell was Arlene and Raymond Evans was Gavin. Our director, Jerry Pilato knew me from “Dixie Swim Club” (now named something else due to the word Dixie in the title) and asked me to audition. I was up against a slew of good comedy actresses and my producer hat was there during auditions trying to see who might match up […]

2023-09-28T22:13:25+00:00September 28th, 2023|Categories: Uncategorized|

How lucky can one girl get

people I consider myself a lucky person. I usually define luck as being in the right place at the right time with the right tools. I have made my way through my life sort of blindly advancing step by step without a great deal of consideration – and professionally, it has worked out. (Catch the next production of my play Silkworms to get more insight on the personal side of my life.)

But sometimes, luck is just luck. You find that perfect parking spot. The lights change to green as you approach the intersection. You find yourself hosting a delightful and talented Ukrainian refugee and her daughter.

Ok, that needs a little explanation.

Back when Putin invaded Ukraine, I received an email from Air BnB asking if I was interested in donating my spare room to a refugee if needed. I had decided not […]

2023-07-04T18:46:21+00:00July 6th, 2023|Categories: Uncategorized|

“Silkworms” staged at Lamplighters Theater

posterI wrote a play back before the turn of the century and was lucky to have it performed as a staged reading by John Tessmer and his La Jolla Theater Ensemble in late 2017. Fast forward to 2023 and SILKWORMS has just finished a 3-weekend fully staged run at Lamplighters Theater in La Mesa California. I was invited to the auditions and was able to help select the cast. I was however not invited to the rehearsals…which was fine with me. I don’t consider myself a director and I am probably way too close to the story to have been able to help the actors bring their own take to the characters. Besides, I was lead in another play that overlapped with this production.

SILKWORMS is a semi-autobiographical (OK, mostly autobiographical) play set at Christmas about three generations of American women, the […]

2023-07-04T18:13:56+00:00July 4th, 2023|Categories: Uncategorized|

Best laid plans…

New Customers imageSo, the past couple of years have had me wavering between retiring or easing into retirement. I am still telling people that I am easing into retirement as the fall back remark when asked, but don’t tell that to the new clients who keep walking in the door! I’m not going out of my way to market anymore, but in the past couple of months, I’ve added 5 new customers.  People move around a lot and when they get to a new company, they give me a call and I start a new customer file.

The freedom to delete auditions is a great feeling, but suddenly there has been an influx of SAG-AFTRA jobs, so I’ve been doing a few more auditions than I told myself I was going to do. But with fewer auditions, the audition to job ratio has gone […]

2022-08-31T22:49:42+00:00August 31st, 2022|Categories: Uncategorized|

Easing into Retirement?

Retirement sign“Should I stay or should I go?” Is retirement in the cards?

Well, for the time being, I am staying. I have lots of regular clients who I love working for and will continue to do so until I find that my voice just isn’t the same. Referrals are always great. And love hearing or seeing producers from past projects (some from many years ago).

What I am finding as I contemplate “retirement”, is that it is a lot easier to pass on auditions. Used to be I would do anything that came across my eyeballs. Different ages, characters, accents – I’d push myself to find a voice that would “work.”

But today’s castings are evolving into being much more targeted with an emphasis on being real and true – age, ethnicity, heritage.

Sometimes it is an easy call – when I see the specs […]

2021-11-02T21:53:25+00:00November 2nd, 2021|Categories: Uncategorized|

Dog Days of Summer

Baxter and ballSo, what are the dog days of summer? Per Wikipedia…

The dog days or dog days of summer are the hot, sultry days of summer. They were historically the period following the heliacal rising of the star system Sirius, which Hellenistic astrology connected with heat, drought, sudden thunderstorms, lethargy, fever, mad dogs, and bad luck.

Heat for sure. Hopefully we’ll get some thunderstorms here in southern CA. Ideally, we can stay away from fever and bad luck. Lethargy? No time for lethargy.

For many of us who have been working remotely for years, this global quarantine has not really affected our business. I’m as busy as ever – with one significant difference. My status as a seasoned (read mature) voiceover professional with lots of repeat business, referrals, direct hits to my website (24 years young) means that my days of daily marketing are over.

I’m not retiring – why on […]

2020-10-12T23:28:24+00:00October 12th, 2020|Categories: Announcements, Life, Musings|

All good things …yada yada yada

My old Prima 120

Earlier this year before all hell broke loose, I was looking at my work flow and realized that my ISDN unit had been standing idle for several months. The preferred live connection was trending toward Source-Connect and only one lone client was using ISDN – and that client? Not very often.

The monthly cost here in Southern CA was still pretty reasonable – about $60 a month – a far cry from the $600 or more per month in some places. But, when the only client using the unit was also one of my lower paying clients, it just didn’t pencil out.

So, I did it. I pulled the plug and retired my Musicam Prima 120 workhorse. As one of the first voiceover talent in the country to have a personal studio with ISDN I paid for the unit many times […]

2020-10-09T17:36:00+00:00October 9th, 2020|Categories: Announcements, Business, Technology|

Learn to use your Jitterbug Smart!

One of my favorite kinds of projects is training videos. A bunch of short pieces that help someone learn to use a piece of equipment. The challenge is to made each module stand on its own, but also be consistent with all the other videos in a series.

I had a chance to voice 15 or so How-To Videos for the Great Call Jitterbug Smart 2 phone – here is a link to the page where you can listen to one (or all!).

https://www.greatcall.com/support/learningcenter

I am also the voice of the Great Call (now a Best Buy company) voice mail and IVR systems for all of their products and customer support, as well as the voice of their Lively Mobile and Lively Wearable devices.

2020-01-28T18:53:17+00:00January 28th, 2020|Categories: Announcements, Business, Recent Work|

Art and Humanity Wins with New Documentary

Documentary narration is a wonderful thing. I had the opportunity to voice this lovely new program on the amazing person and artist James Hubbell. Titled “James Hubbell: Between Heaven and Earth” – it was aired on KBPS in November of 2019. It is making the festival circuit right now. This is the first couple of minutes.

Here is a link to the entire show – https://www.pbs.org/video/james-hubbell-between-heaven-and-earth-rpgtfk/

2019-12-19T19:00:07+00:00December 19th, 2019|Categories: Uncategorized|

Add H&M to the Places Where You Can Hear Me Call Someone to Help You!

 So I checked my email yesterday and found 102 new Call Box announcements for H&M. Again, I have to thank my nearly 20-year client I wrote about recently for this work.

The work isn’t hard, but it has to be done very differently than most VO work.

For example…the announcement you hear is “Customer Assistance to Register 1.” And then you have the same announcement for all 26 registers at the store. That means consistency in the way those words are delivered. The inflections need to be the same – only the register number changes. The intensity and energy need to be the same. And not only the same for that batch of announcements, but for the new ones that come along.

One time I was recording at a client’s facility (before the home studio really became defacto) and they wanted me to record the […]

2019-05-22T20:54:30+00:00May 22nd, 2019|Categories: Announcements, Recording|
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