Rebecca Haugh has a very cool life. She’s a voiceover artist who splits her time between Italy and California.
“And it all came to me in a dream,” she says. “I dreamed I saw a microphone through a window.” Some people pay attention to dreams, and some don’t. Rebecca did. And that resulted in this.
Heavily cultured and degreed in television, film, and broadcasting, Rebecca had ample experience in all forms of show business before voiceover became a full-time occupation.
So, it wasn’t until later in life that Rebecca had an epiphany. “That’s how I’ll live internationally; I’ll do voiceover.” And that’s exactly what she did, and it worked.
Rebecca’s first national ad.
Here, again, is an example of the gift that voiceover offers the cultured person. “I’m a digital nomad,” she says, “and I can be anywhere on earth from California to Rome and still deliver with the very same effectiveness.”
And she’s right. All the producer of any project is looking for is an exceptional performance. And Rebecca does that.
So, being as creative and seasoned as Rebecca, in fact, is - she imagined how to live a fascinating life in the arts, as she lives on the planet wherever she wanted to. It worked. www.LovethatRebecca.com
Educated at San Jose University, her fascination with broadcasting and all it entails took her down a road for years of being on-camera and remaining relative. And with a professor for a father and living as a playful kid in Culver City, Rebecca became an original.
She could act. She could host. She could produce marketing and graphic design. She could do it all. And all that background led to the world of voiceover. “Because in VO, you do not have to live in LA or go to an office, and you can set the course of your life on your own terms.”
And Rebecca loves voiceover because of the anonymity. “Nobody knows who you are, and I like that,” she says. “I created this life.”
And amid this freedom, Rebecca created her project www.voimprov.com. It’s a way to teach the younger or older generation a great way to be original.
All of these ideas came to Rebecca through the course of several reinventions. From one stage to the next, she proved to herself that one size does not fit all. And she may be in the countryside of Rome, Italy, or somewhere in California, but you’d never know.
So, if you ever feel in a funk in your voiceover career, think about Rebecca Haugh. She took her dream of a microphone, which literally happened to her during sleep, and “I listened to that instinct.”
Next on her imaginative list is to host a show as the narrator. “I like animals, and I’d love to wind myself into narrating a show like that,” Rebecca tells me. “Not a serious show, but one written with a lighthearted touch.”
In summation, she is free to live in the business she loves and vagabond enough to live some in Italy and some in the U.S. Rebecca has the liberty to do anything she wants to do whenever she wants to do it.
Artistic people have a way, once seasoned, to create a life they want, not one a corporation has planned. And so, there is no question about it: Rebecca Haugh has a very cool life. What a dream!
