Annette Amelia Oliveira offers...
A WARM ARTICULATE VOICE that loves to have fun. She distinctly differentiates characters and accurately renders Puerto Rican, Mexican, British, French, New York and other accents. She’s portrayed lots of Latinx youngsters, Moms, Dads and Abuelas.
AUDIOBOOKS: Annette has narrated for Penguin Random House, Scholastic, Audible, Skyboat Media and Learning Ally. Genres she records include adult fiction, YA history and fiction, audio drama, memoir, self-help, history, children’s books, mystery, thriller and sci-fi.
DIVERSE WORK/LIFE: A Bronx native, Annette is the child of Puerto Rican and Portuguese immigrants. She worked in drug treatment programs in Harlem and Hell’s Kitchen. She’s dwelt in Irish, Jewish and African-American neighborhoods. She was a writer for Mexican American and Puerto Rican civil rights agencies and for a water/wastewater utility. Along the way, she learned the language of doctors, lawyers and engineers
ACTING: Annette played grumpy old men, Shakespearian ladies, Argentinian vamps and more on stages coast to coast. She studied with Uta Hagen and is a grad of San Francisco’s Meisner Technique Studio. She took on every role imaginable for SF’s Shoestring Radio Theatre.
EDUCATION: A high school art major, Annette haunts museums worldwide and devours artist biographies. Annette studied English and Art History at Barnard College thanks to a scholarship from Dad’s Union. She also studied Russian and French.
ANNETTE’S PASSIONS: Annette met her sweetie hiking. They’ve trekked through Europe, Latin America and the Middle East. Annette started dancing salsa at age four. She attends ballet and modern dance. She explores plant-based cooking and inhales info on nutrition and healthy aging. She studied karate, batik and sewing. (Mom was a seamstress.) Her husband and closest friends are psychotherapists. Annette cares about the environment, she’s an avid reader and she ADORES listening to audiobooks.
Kind Words
Annette Acts
THEATRE (selected)
The Merry Wives of Windsor - Mistress Quickly
Curtain Theatre/dir. Kim Bromley
The Clean House - Ana
Contra Costa Civic Theatre/dir. Erin Merritt
Antigone - Euridyce
Sheridan Square Playhouse, NYC/dir. Terese Hayden
Real Women Have Curves - Carmen
Douglas Morrisson Theatre/dir. Katja Rivera
Weightless - God
Encore Theatre Company, Z-Space/dir. Becca Wolff
Fahrenheit 451 - Mrs. Hudson/Faber
Quantum Dragon Theatre/dir. Sam Tillis
Henry IV, Part I - Northumberland/Hostess
Curtain Theatre/dir. Stephen Beecroft
Ageless - Aged Marin
Quantum Dragon Theatre/dir. Katja Rivera
America Hurrah – Ensemble roles
Charles Playhouse, Boston/dir. Thomas Bissinger
Next Time I’ll Sing to You - Lizzie
Riverside Church Theatre, NYC/dir. Roland Gwyn Reese
Antigone - Chorus
Hartford Stage Company/dir. Michael Murray
Mother of the Maid - Isabelle
Contra Costa Civic Theatre (Zoom)/dir. Marilyn Langbehn
The Deception of Kathryn Vask - Leslie/Psychic
Altarena Theatre (Zoom)/dir. Kimberly Ridgeway
FILM (selected)
40, Latino, Single and Gay - Abuela
Web Series/dir. Amanda Safa
The North Pole - Dona Rita
Movement Generation/dir. Yvan Iturriaga
Last Rights - Aurelia Ortiz
Videosyncrasy/dir. David Usner
RADIO THEATRE
29 plays - Various roles
Shoestring Radio Theatre, San Francisco
The Skills of Xanadu – Nina
WBAI-Radio, NYC /dir. Baird Searles
The Trojan Horse – Sarpedoni
WBAI Radio, NYC/dir. Baird Searles
Felisa Rincon de Gautier - Felisa
Jabberwocky
VIDEOS
Physician Education Video
Latina Wife/Stanford University
Institute of Noetic Sciences Video
Patient/Vince Beeton
Employee Training Videos
Narrator/East Bay Municipal Utility District
TRAINING
Meisner Technique Studio
Two-year graduate
HB Studio
Acting/Uta Hagen
Berkeley Repertory Theatre
Advanced Acting/Hilary Hinckle (Atlantic Theatre Co.)
Voice One
Narration/Audiobooks
Tom Wells Voice
Linklater Voice Work
Barnard College
B.A./English
SKILLS: Fluent Latin American Spanish,
hiking, salsa dancer, knit, crochet, machine sew,
draw, paint.
ACCENTS: Puerto Rican, Argentinian, Mexican,
French, British, Russian, Australian, Bronx, Southern,
Italian.
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Accents
Bronx
French
British RP
Irish
Russian
Professional Studio
SSL2 interface
Adobe Audition
MacMini
Professionally sound-treated booth
Audiobook Coaching with..
Andrea Emmes
Jim Edgar
Doug Honorof
Annette Works With
