Melanie Crawley

Approved long-term voice artist

This pre-approved showcase went live on July 12th 2023. This artist has committed to remain an active lifetime member of VoicesUK.

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Melanie is an award winning, experienced, trained British voice actor. Her voice has warmth, resonance, reassurance and the gravitas to deal with serious and difficult subject matter. Grit and good humour elevate her voice from run-of-the mill polished professional VO to a voice that will help transform your project into something singular and special. She reads with a no-nonsense, down-to-earth honesty and authenticity that results in genuine naturalism – something rare among VOs.

Her versatility is impressive: she’s great with comedy and has a fantastic ear for accents but there’s a basic kindness and a hard-wearing, well-constructed mature quality to her voice that helps her to convey the drama in any narrative – whether its the climax of a tense scene in a novel or a 30 second radio commercial.

Her specialisms are narration for audiobooks and other long-form narration, audio and radio drama & comedy and commercial reads for radio. She is in demand by charity’s and social enterprises to voice their commercials, campaigns and corporate videos.

She works as a voiceover for various corporate projects – from e-learning to presentations and she supplies overdubbing for film and TV.

• Audiofile Earphone Award for audiobook narration: Halfmoon Lane by Paula Hillman •
• Audiofile Earphone Award for audiobook narration (co-narrator): The Hanging of Hettie Gale by Tess Burnett •
• One Voice Award for Best Performance In-store announcements •
• VOX award for Best Use of Humour, Radio Commercial •
• Finalist Best Female Voice Actor – British Independent Audiobook Awards •
• Finalist ‘Narrator of Distinction’ PANA awards •
• Finalist ONE VOICE AWARDS ‘Best Audiobook Narration – Fiction’•
• Spotlight Actor • Member of Equity • Member of the Audiobook Publishers Association • Member of The Professional Audiobook Narrators Association •
• Member of Audio UK •

Selected clients include Penguin Random House, Dreamscape, Harper Collins (Harper Audio), Hachette, Bloomsbury, Cancer Research UK, Alzheimer’s Society, MIND, AXA Health, The BBC, The RHS, University of Sheffield, The National Grid, Bauer Media.

She often works directly with independent authors and works for clients internationally as well as in the UK.

Melanie studied Drama to degree level, graduating in the early 90s but didn’t act professionally until 25. She brings with her the experience of working self-employed and as a department director for the events and film industries. She thinks creatively and is a problem-solver, ready to pitch in and collaborate.

Melanie works from her professional studio at home in Sheffield where she lives with her border terrier, Spike.