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A veteran
broadcaster, Thomas began her communications career as a disc jockey
in 1974. She worked the major markets, including New York, Detroit
and Miami.
Soon afterwards she landed the prestigious position as
host of the morning show on 94.7 KTWV The WAVE in Los Angeles. It
was there that Oscar producer Gil Cates and director Jeff Margolis
| Randy Thomas is the
first person, male or female, to announce the Academy Awards®, Tony
Awards, and Emmy Awards all in a row!
She is also the first female
to announce the American Film Institute Awards, Screen Actors Guild Awards, and the
Miss America Pageant. |
heard Thomas’ distinctive voice, whereupon they auditioned her and chose
her to announce the 1993 Oscars as part of "The Year of the Women"
theme.
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Randy with
co-author Peter Rofé assisting live on the air at the
Tony’s |
Thomas has announced
the Oscars seven times since then (including the 80th Annual
Academy Awards®,
and with the 59th Annual Tony Awards last June, she marked her
fifth turn at the mike in five years for the American Theatre Wing
event.
Equally at home in television or radio as she is at live
versus taped events, Thomas has worked specials for all the major
television networks and currently provides the imaging voice for
radio stations WLTW (New York), WASH (Washington, DC), WNIC (Detroit), WRRM
(Cincinnati), WJYE (Buffalo), K-Hits (Portland), and CHFI (Toronto).
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Emmy
producer Don Mischer says Thomas "... can make an event compelling and
important without overstatement or hype. We’ve worked with her many
times and she’s terrific with live television events."
Thomas can be heard on the Disney
Channel talking to pre-schoolers as the voice of Playhouse Disney’s
Project Playtime and Bill Cosby’s "Kids Say the Darndest Things," currently in syndication.
Between jetting
back and forth from Hollywood’s Kodak Theater and New York’s Radio
City Music Hall, Thomas manages to find time to conduct hands-on
voiceover workshops in New York, Los Angeles, and Florida. She teaches students
how to "read promos like the pros," as she says, drawing not only
from her experience narrating numerous film trailers and television
promos but from her 20-year reign as the voice of the popular
"Hooked on Phonics" home study series and its radio
advertising ("Call 1-800-A-B-C-D-E-F-G").
Thomas is also an author. She and colleague Peter Rofe wrote "Voice
For Hire: How to Launch and Maintain a Lucrative Career in
Voice-overs."
View Randy's photo
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