Joan Baker- bio

Joan Baker
Joined 2 years ago / NYC

Joan Baker- Voiceover Artist, Voice-Over coach/Teacher, Author “Secrets–Over Voice-Over Success” National Spokesperson for top brand microphone, Neumann, Vice President, Push Creative Advertising.
She’s got it goin’on in voice-over field, Voicing, The Muhammad Ali Center 2004 Olympic TV Campaign, narrating a documentary about the founding of the William Jefferson Clinton Library, now a part of the library’s permanent display and was tapped for a marketing campaign promoting The ABC Super Sign in Times Square.
Among numerous commercials and promos on which she has performed, she is especially proud of winning a 2011 Telly Award for her narration of the documentary “The Power of Saying Yes” and narrating the best selling Audio Book, Those Boys Have all the fun: The Inside World of ESPN. Joan recently voiced the premiere season promos for ABC’s “The View”, the Royal Wedding promos on HLN and TBS campaign for HBO’s Sex And The City series leading into the premiere of Sex And The City 2, the movie. Other clients: Grand Theft Auto III/IV, HBO, ESPN, Showtime, Nickelodeon, Chase Bank, NBA Entertainment, American Express, NICK at NITE, ABC News and CBS Sports, Lifetime, Lexus, SPIKE TV and most recently (she positively PURRED for Cat On A Hot Tin Roof national radio campaign!)

Kickin it live as the “Voice” for numerous entertainment industry award shows and conferences including Promax /BDA Conference , NYWIFT's Muse Awards, The Vision Awards, The Moving Image salute to Will Smith and the Woman and Communications’ Matrix Awards and many more.

Oh and by the way, Joan is the national spokesperson for world class microphone, Neumann.
Joan’s extraordinary talent has generated the spotlight with feature articles in The New York Times, Black Enterprise, New York Post, Hollywood Reporter, New York Daily News, Multi-Channel News, Back Stage, Media Week, ADWEEK and Broadcasting & Cable, Jet, Crain’s USA, just to point out a few.

Did we mention that Joan is the author of SECRETS OF VOICEOVER SUCCESS: Top Voice-Over Actors Reveal How They Did It, Compelling stories of the top voice-over actors in the industry, including the one and only, Don LaFontaine and many more. All proceeds benefit the Alzheimer’s Association.

Joan’s featured in the following books, “Daughter’s Of Men” By Rachel Vassel (2006), “Career Clinic” by Maureen Anderson (2007), “Put Your Dreams First: Handle Your Entertainment Business” By Thembisa Mshaka (2008).”Signed, Your Student” by Holly Holbert (2010) Dream Reachers Ii By Betty Dravis.

Joan is the creator/host of " That's Voiceover!" an exciting, interactive, behind-the-scenes career event, the wildly successful “Make Millions With Your Voice” through the Learning Annex, Voices Behind the Scenes: The Art of Voice-Over, a special insider’s look at the art and craft of voice-over for film and television. Voices Remember” (a uniquely staged show of support, performers whose careers and livelihood depend on their vocal talent honor and remember those who lost their voices to Alzheimer’s disease) partnering with Broadway Care /Equity Fights Aids.

In addition to performing voice-over, Joan has for more than 15 years taught speech and voice-over technique at, The Actors Institute (NYC), Acting Management (NYC), The Professional Performing Arts School (NYC) Western Kentucky University (KY) New York University (NYC) and “Directing & Working with Voice-over Talent” for the Promax/BDA TV Conferences. A much sought after educator, she is responsible for training a respectable number of new voice talents entering the voice-over field each year, and provides private voice coaching for corporate executives and other non-entertainment professionals seeking to enhance their public speaking skills for stage and on-camera.

Among her list of clients are the late Johnnie Cochran, HLN’s, Nancy Grace and Future 500 companies.
Joan Baker runs an award winning ad agency called Push Creative along with her husband, Rudy Gaskins.

Awards:Telly Award, Short Documentary- VO Narration, “The Power Of Saying Yes” 2010
Telly Award, Short Documentary Vo Narration, “Living a Life of Consequence” 2009
Telly Award, Short Documentary Vo Narration, “ Causing The Miraculous”, 2007
PROMAX Gold & Silver, Producer, TV Promos Martin Luther King Campaign for