Child Kiah

Very young girl, 5-7 years old, soft spoken, giggly (Encouraged to apply: Somali)

Minimal Voice Lines

This character should come across as a little shy yet excitable. She is very young, but has a great mind and memory and an eagerness to connect with Zekra, the fatherly character she is speaking to in her appearance in this animation. She speaks as proper as a child possibly can because of her upbringing, and could even have a slight posh-British accent, but this can be up to interpretation by you as the voice actor if you feel that there's a voice that's really calling to you for this role.

Line Context/Acting Help:

1. First line: She's yelling this at Zekra in a playful manner, as their conversation is light hearted and Zekra is teasing her somewhat.

2. Second line: She loses her giggly nature slowly as she becomes more focused on correctly reciting the first few lines of a poem Zekra wrote and taught her. She's able to remember it in a sort of unbelievable and startling way. Despite her memory, she is still just a little kid, so she stumbles on some of the harder words a bit. Feel free to improvise with the pronunciation of the words. This poem is also meant to all be one long grammatically correct sentence, and this is just a snippet of it, so imagine this were being read as a constant stream of thought.

3. Third line: She is a lot more somber now, after having experienced something quite awful. Zekra is still trying to be playful with her to cheer her up, but between sniffles, she replies coldly to him, or as cold as a little kid can sound.

Requirements:
Please have a decent mic setup and record in a quiet space/somewhere with little to no background noise.
Be able to send your audio as .wav and .mp3 files.
Be comfortable with progressive themes in storytelling, including characters that may be LGBTQIA+ or of different minority ethnic groups.
Most importantly, have fun! I'm very open to any character interpretations you may have!

Thank you for auditioning!