Long Voice Acting Bio

Fay likes to call zirself “a spoken word artist, storyteller, musician, and accidental voice artist,” and has been doing some of this for a long time. Ze started training as a musician at the age of four, but the spoken word didn’t turn up until 2006, and, while always having been a raconteur, like zir whole family, ze didn’t start training in storytelling until about 2014, utilising elements of all three skills in zir award-nominated solo show The Selkie which ze performed 2016-2018 at a number of festivals in the UK, including the Edinburgh Fringe, where it gained 5 star reviews.

After losing zir voice in late 2016, ze started performing again in 2017, one of the first events being what was supposed to be a one-off narration gig for an acquaintance’s podcast. That singular activity turned into a recurring main cast part in Rusty Quill’s phenomenally successful show The Magnus Archives as Alice “Daisy” Tonner (2017-2021), and thereafter work as a voice actor in Inexplicables (Cressida Hynes, 2021, Rusty Quill); Connections – Prescience (Kale, 2021, We Talk of Dreams); Connections – Headlights (Devon, 2021, We Talk of Dreams); Zombies, Run! – The Graveyard Route (Sister Judith, 2022, Six to Start); Trice Forgotten (William Henry Blair, 2022, Rusty Quill); Eeler’s Choice (Principal Adept Gwilym Weaverllyn, 2023, Eeler’s Choice); Zombies, Run! – Radio Mode (Beth, 2023, Six to Start); and Marvel Move – Thor & Loki’s 5K Training (Modgud, 2023, Six to Start). Ze has also worked as a voiceover artist in numerous NHS animated training videos, and for the forthcoming documentary film by Edward Kihn – A Vague Dread Seems to Silence the Tongue (2023) – as well as narrating a couple of short stories for Rusty Quill.

Currently living in England, Fay’s family are from South Wales (where ze grew up), Central Scotland (where ze spent nearly every holiday), and Northern Ireland (where ze was born), and ze grew up in a household where mimicry, impersonation, and switching accents on a whim was the norm. This has been coming in handy for voice acting and narration, with Fay’s ability to swap voices leading to descriptions such as “enviably flexible” and “an accent ninja”. As an intersex, nonbinary person, ze has played roles of a variety of genders, and character ages from 20-50.

Ze is currently working on editing the audiobook of zir first full-length poetry collection (Spectral, 2022, Burning Eye Books), due out in late 2023, putting zir other job as a project manager to good use as part of the process.