Amy Julia Rose is an actor hailing from Toronto, Canada.  She acted in her first play at age six and immediately fell in love with the theatre. She would memorize not only her lines, but everyone else’s as well.  She took her first dance class at four and has been trained in all kinds of styles of dance.  She performed throughout her childhood and majored in theatre at the University of Guelph.  After completing her BA, she spent a year teaching English in Italy, where she got to combine her love of teaching and her love of languages.  Amy is fluent in Italian and Spanish, conversational in Russian, and proficient in over 25 different accents and dialects.  She loves learning new ways to speak, helping others learn accents and dialects, and creating characters with unique and meaningful voices.

In an exclusive interview, we sat down with Amy to discuss her love of voice over acting and how she creates unique characters using her voice.

 

Welcome Amy! What type of voice over work do you gravitate towards most?

My favorite kind of voiceover work is animation.  I do love doing video game and audio show voices, but animation holds a very special place in my heart.  I love how it allows people to play characters of any age with any kind of voice.  Most of my favorite TV shows are animated, like The Simpsons, Family Guy, South Park and Bob’s Burgers.  I also really love bringing characters from children’s shows to life.  Some of my favorite characters to imitate come from shows I loved as a kid (and still do now), like Phineas and Ferb, and even shows I didn’t love as a kid, like Caillou.  The great thing about animation is that it really gives me inspiration - I’m a visual learner, so if I see a picture of a character, I’ll be able to get to their voice quicker!  Sometimes I’ll see a picture and the silliest voice will naturally come along with it without me even having to plan!

What accents and dialects can you do?

The list is quite vast, but General American, New York, Southern US (Coastal and Mountain), Midwest, Coastal Californian, Canadian, Jamaican, Latin American Spanish, RP, Cockney, Northern English, Scottish, Irish, French, French Canadian, German, Italian, Israeli, Russian, West African, South African, Indian, Australian, Dutch, Yiddish, and more! 

I am also able to do accents in different languages and speak dialects of Italian such as Napoletano and Calabrese and speak in accents from different parts of the country.  I have lived in Iseo (province of Brescia) and Reggio Calabria, so I am very aware of the differences in the way people speak. 

Whenever I have a role that requires an accent or dialect, I’m not familiar with, I am able to start learning it right away.  I have coached many of my friends at Stella Adler with accents, dialects and accent reduction.  I have a certificate in Teaching English as a Foreign Language and have taught English in Italy, so I have lots of experience with linguistics and how phonetics work!


How would you describe the projects that you typically prefer?

I love all kinds of acting - stage, screen and VO. I don’t really have a preference.  I would definitely say that I lean towards comedic roles. Comedy comes so naturally to me and I’m happiest when I’m making people laugh.  I love any role that allows me to have fun while preparing and performing.  However, this isn’t to say that I’m not interested in more dramatic roles.  I’m honestly open to anything!



What is your creative process when preparing for a voice over audition? 

I usually try out a few voices just to see which one is most fitting and believable.  Sometimes I make big changes, and sometimes I make minor tweaks.  I’ll record about three versions and listen back to them a few times, with the image of the character (or narrator) in my mind.  If one of them sounds too forced, or too much like acting, I’ll cancel it out!  I keep trying voices and making changes until I can really feel the character’s emotions and desires inside me.  One of my voiceover teachers once taught me a trick I’ll never forget, called “Crazy Face Crazy Body.”  When I’m trying to find a good voice, whether it’s for a serious commercial narration or a wacky children’s character, I make sure to stand up and move around and do whatever big expressions and motions help me get to the voice.  Sitting still makes it so much harder to get that result, and certain voices can only really be made by making big faces!

What would be your ideal voice over job?

That’s such a big question!  I would absolutely love to voice multiple recurring characters on a funny, well-written, musical children’s show.  Whether it’s animated or uses puppets, I’m very passionate about giving kids the most entertaining and engaging media and helping bring it to life!  I grew up on shows like Sesame Street, The Backyardigans, Looney Tunes and Bear in the Big Blue House.  Even as a kid, I could tell that adults put so much of their hearts and souls into making them, and that they all clearly remembered what it was like to be a kid.  Aside from teaching lessons, shows like these taught me a lot about humor and comedic timing, and gave me well-written songs that would go on to be stuck in my head for years!  If I had the chance to someday be part of a children’s show of that quality, made with that much love, I would have the best job in the world.  All that said, I do love adult animation, and everyone who knows me personally knows that I’m an encyclopedia of Simpsons quotes and random Simpsons knowledge.  I love how that show (especially the golden age) strikes the perfect balance between hilarious and heartwarming, kooky and emotional.  Many of my favorite actors are from the Simpsons! 

Your work on The Order of Chaos with a K has you voicing multiple characters. Can you tell us about some of them?

Yes! I play many roles on this show.  Some of the recurring roles include S.A.M., the smart artificial machine, for whom I use a robotic, emotionless AI-sounding voice, which always gets lots of laughs from my castmates. 

I also play three characters named Martha - one is an angry, rude, loudmouth type, another is a Southern-accented cowgirl with an annoying high-pitched voice, and the third is a ditzy, hippie-dippie space cadet who has a huge crush on the werewolf character (she’s known as “Crazy Martha”.) 

Other roles include a ten-year-old bully, a Russian fortune teller, an Irish pirate and an old lady from New York.


How can we hear the show?

The show can be streamed on SpotifyAmazon and Apple Podcasts.  


Finally, how can people find and follow your journey?

My work can be found on IMDb and I share on Instagram

 

 

 

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