About Us

Gravy For The Brain Ltd offers an ever-expanding range of online courses, face-to-face and online events, and valuable resources – all designed solely to benefit the voiceover community and raise the standard of the voiceover industry.

The company was created in September 2013 by Hugh Edwards and Peter Dickson, following a highly successful 18 months of trading under the name High Score Training. Having both worked extensively on each side of the voiceover industry – Peter as the UK’s best-known voice-over artist and Hugh as a prolific voice-director and casting-director – Hugh and Peter joined forces to pass on their combined wisdom and experience to the voiceover community, which they recognised as being hungry for training and guidance.

Hugh Edwards

Hugh Edwards - CEO, Founder & Team Captain

Hugh is an award-winning voice director and casting director. Hugh has worked on over 200 games, films and television shows and is also a BAFTA judge.

Hugh’s work has been nominated for no less than 4 awards for Best Audio Outsourcing at the gaming industry’s Develop Awards, a TIGA award for best Service Provider, and in 2013 his work-contribution won the Best Sound award for the WarThundergame at the Russian Game Developers conference.

He set up High Score Productions Ltd in 2004, a company specialising in audio-outsourcing to the broadcasting and gaming industries. As well as successfully running two studios, HSP have composed for over 100 television shows and worked on over 180 games plus countless other projects from radio to movies and movie trailers.

“My motivation for starting Gravy For The Brain is to raise the bar of talent within the industry, and the best way we can do that is to provide the best courses we possibly can.

That’s why we work only with the best companies, actors, directors and teachers we can find, with no exceptions.

We’ve had such fantastic feedback from our clients and it’s very inspiring! Gravy For The Brain was the most natural thing for Peter and I to do having had such success.

We just want to make it better and better!”

Peter Dickson

Peter Dickson - Founder & Voiceover Deity

Known to millions simply as “Voiceover Man” Peter Dickson is the best-known and most sought-after voice talent in the UK and arguably the world.

Peter’s voice has featured on over 30 AAA game titles including Fable and Kinect Sports, he has voiced over 30,000 TV and Radio commercials, been the promo voice on over 60 channels, been the featured voice on over 200 TV shows and he was the voice of the London 2012 Olympic Games Beach Volleyball.

In a national poll in the UK, he was voted as having one of the top three iconic UK voices of the decade.

From vocal work on radio and TV commercials, commentary for big international stadium events, corporate narration, multimedia games, animation and prime-time TV shows – “Voiceover Man” is at the top of everyone’s list.

He is the “go to” Voice Over for global TV mogul Simon Cowell. His voice has featured on Britain’s Got Talent since 2007 and The X Factor since 2004, introducing world-class acts onto one of the biggest stages in entertainment television on the planet. Peter is committed to passing on the knowledge he as learned over a stellar career lasting over 40 years. On the subject of teaching and training he said:

“While voiceover training in the USA has had a mainstream presence for many years, here in the UK it has been largely a hit and miss affair.

With Gravy for the Brain’s voiceover education programme and core training courses both e-learning and studio based, Hugh and I hope to change all that. The ethos of the company is to allow anyone to explore the world of voiceover and to allow established professionals to improve on their skills and to interact with other professionals in a supportive environment – in their own time and at their own pace.”

“We have developed our programme of courses in conjunction with the very best experts in their chosen field and we’ve gone to great lengths to make them fun and accessible. Whether you want to study at home on your PC, on your tablet on the move or in a live course at a professional working studio, you can now do all of this - with Gravy for the Brain”.

Penelope Rawlins

VO Fairy Godmother & Mentor

Penny is a professional voice artist and mentor. With over 15 years experience as a voice over artist – Penny’s voice is used all over the world!

An award-winning narrator of over 150 audiobooks, Penelope was nominated Narrator of the Year in 2013 by Audible.

You can hear Penny voicing animation, narration, computer games, dubbing, continuity, English Language Tapes, ADR, commercial and radio. Experienced voicing all ages and animals, from baby to granny in accents around the world!

As well as audiobooks, Penny has recorded numerous animation series, most recently the title roles of Lulu Zipadoo, Mini Wolf, Hubert & Takako and SpacePops

Her work on recent computer games include Rider, Vikings, Star Conflict, Gunz2, Horizon and Delirium.

She has also recorded voiceover for BBC radio projects including: In Search of Lost Time, The Portrait of a Lady, The Professor,The American Senator and Six Degrees of Separation.

Penelope trained at Guildford School of Acting and made her professional theatre debut playing opposite Tommy Steele in Chaplin: The Musical. Her extensive theatre credits include national tours of The Lady Vanishes, Present Laughter, Brief Encounter, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner and The Railway Children, The Browning Version, Absent Friends, Wait Until Dark, Butterflies Are Free,Pinocchio and Dick Barton; Special Agent.

Hugh Edwards

CEO, Founder & Team Captain

Hugh is an award-winning voice director and casting director. Hugh has worked on over 200 games, films and television shows and is also a BAFTA judge.

“My motivation for starting Gravy For The Brain is to raise the bar of talent within the industry, and the best way we can do that is to provide the best courses we possibly can.

That’s why we work only with the best companies, actors, directors and teachers we can find, with no exceptions.

We’ve had such fantastic feedback from our clients and it’s very inspiring! Gravy For The Brain was the most natural thing for Peter and I to do having had such success.

We just want to make it better and better!”

Peter Dickson

Founder & Voiceover Deity

Known to millions simply as “Voiceover Man” Peter Dickson is the best-known and most sought-after voice talent in the UK and arguably the world.

In a national poll in the UK, he was voted as having one of the top three iconic UK voices of the decade.

“While voiceover training in the USA has had a mainstream presence for many years, here in the UK it has been largely a hit and miss affair.

Penelope Rawlins

VO Fairy Godmother & Mentor

Penny is a professional voice artist and mentor. With over 15 years experience as a voice over artist – Penny’s voice is used all over the world!

An award-winning narrator of over 150 audiobooks, Penelope was nominated Narrator of the Year in 2013 by Audible.

As well as audiobooks, Penny has recorded numerous animation series, most recently the title roles of Lulu Zipadoo, Mini Wolf, Hubert & Takako and SpacePops

Her work on recent computer games include Rider, Vikings, Star Conflict, Gunz2, Horizon and Delirium.

She has also recorded voiceover for BBC radio projects including: In Search of Lost Time, The Portrait of a Lady, The Professor,The American Senator and Six Degrees of Separation.

Harry Davies

Tech Saviour & Course Wizard

Harry manages the Gravy For The Brain technical support department and is involved in course creation. When we let him out of the GFTB office he's the lead singer for aternative metal band, I Cried Wolf.

Harry is one of the youngest in of our team but his skills and experience certainly aren't limited by his years.

Originally trained in media and web design, Harry brought his key visual and technical design ideas to the GFTB table. If you have a technical support problem or need advice on video games or metal music, Harry is your man!

By night he runs around stages, climbing on amps and screaming till his lungs nearly explode in his metal band 'I Cried Wolf'. Harry’s band is signed to Crooked Noise Records and they're climbing the underground-metal ladder fast! You can find out more about the band and Harry's exploits on their Facebook page if you want!

Gary Fox

VO Business Mentor & Marketing/PR Chief

Gary is our business and marketing guru. He mentors our VOs about the business and marketing side of being a voiceover. His hobbies include going to the gym and finding interesting blogs to tell us all about!

Gary has worked in sales and marketing for over 25 years. He holds an Executive MBA from Warwick Business School and is a lecturer at Oxford Brookes University. For Gravy For The Brain, Gary creates content, provides training and writes blogs about business and marketing for voiceovers. He mentors our VO members about how to manage their voiceover careers as a business and market themselves to get the kind of jobs they want. He translates his extensive and impressive experience working with big international brands like Nike, Xbox and Gilette into practical ways for voiceovers to take control of their careers.

Gary is also a bit of a fitness geek - always going to the gym after work. He always eats salad for lunch except on Thursdays which are his ’treat days’ but he’s surprisingly easy to persuade over to the dark side on office pizza days!

Mary Snee

Course Production

Mary manages the course creation division and gets involved in our events creation and management. She has a degree in Medical Microbiology and Virology, so when the zombie apocalypse happens, you know who to call

Mary has had a varied career so far, combining education and visual design. She does lots of our photography and graphic design work, she produces and designs training courses and on top of all that she’s in charge our voiceover training and social events!

It seems that almost every day when asked "what are you up to this evening?", Mary has a training session or league match for one of the netball teams she plays for. We assume she’s pretty good because she never misses when she throws rubbish into the office bin. Apparently she’s a goal attack if that means anything to you. It sounds impressive to us anyway!

Harry Davies

Tech Saviour & Course Wizard

Harry manages the Gravy For The Brain technical support department and is involved in course creation. When we let him out of the GFTB office he's the lead singer for alternative metal band, I Cried Wolf.

Harry is one of the youngest in of our team but his skills and experience certainly aren't limited by his years.

Gary Fox

VO Business Mentor & Marketing/PR Chief

Mary Snee

Course Production

Rob Bee

The Home-Studio-Smith

No one is more recognised, nor respected in the UK Voice Industry at perfecting voiceover artist's home recording studios, than Rob. Rob works in our Home Studio Mentoring area giving you 1-2-1 tuition and solving all your tech issues!

Rob trained to be a sound engineer in the late 90s in Manchester and has worked in the voiceover industry ever since. He has produced everything from radio & TV commercials to railway station announcements to top secret VOs only ever heard in the case of a nuclear facility meltdown.

A well-respected figure in the UK voice industry, Rob has helped many voiceover artists upgrade or repair their studios and his knowledge of all things studio has got many a VO out of a tight jam.

In his spare time he’s a keen birdwatcher and guitarist. He also brews his own and drinks other people’s beer.

Jasmin Reeve

Events Queen

Jasmin is our Events Manager here at Gravy For The Brain. She's responsible for the GFTB Social Events, planning in and launching our webinars, our Blended Learning Workshops and the uber-cool One Voice Conference in London.

She is an animal enthusiast and loves spending time with her family – especially her niece who is quite possibly the cutest thing ever. [We're checking it on the "World's Cutest Things" database now to verify.....]

She is a bit of a perfectionist and the first to admit that she loves a good excel spreadsheet - mix that with her Netflix addiction and her Events management degree you have some seriously well-organised media events!

Harvey Clayton-Wright

Marketing Magician

Harvey is our marketing coordinator here at One Voice, responsible for flexing his copywriting, PR and journalistic wand! Harvey keeps you all up-to-date!

Harvey has already beaten the odds by managing to get work after taking an English Literature degree at University, but isn’t going to rest on his laurels from there. When he’s not marketing, Harvey loves to write sitcoms and feature films, while getting out there and directing the odd short film when he can talk anyone into helping out.

While creating his own masterpieces, Harvey also loves to watch terrible films and prides himself on being able to sit through things which would make anyone turn off and do something better with their time.

Rob Bee

The Home-Studio-Smith

A well-respected figure in the UK voice industry, Rob has helped many voiceover artists upgrade or repair their studios and his knowledge of all things studio has got many a VO out of a tight jam.

In his spare time he’s a keen birdwatcher and guitarist. He also brews his own and drinks other people’s beer.

Jasmin Reeve

Events Queen

Harvey Clayton-Wright

Marketing Magician

Harvey is our marketing coordinator here at One Voice, responsible for flexing his copywriting, PR and journalistic wand! Harvey keeps you all up-to-date!

Gareth Downes-Powell

Duke of Development

Gareth is our web developer, and the latest addition to our team. With over 20 years of web development experience, he has the skills to keep our websites moving forward, and build new tools to make your life as a VO easier.

Gareth Downes-Powell

Duke of Development

Gareth is our web developer and the latest addition to our team. With over 20 years of web development experience, he has the skills to keep our websites moving forward and build new tools to make your life as a VO easier

Company Details:

Gravy For The Brain Ltd
Registered Company Number (UK): 08685182
VAT Registration Number (UK): 188 3682 57
Registered Office: CS Innovation Centre, Mewburn Road, Banbury, England OX16 9PA
Directors: H Edwards & P Dickson.

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Hugh Edwards

Peter Dickson

Penelope Rawlins

Hugh Edwards

Peter Dickson

Penelope Rawlins

Harry Davies

Gary Fox

Mary Snee

Harry Davies

Gary Fox

Mary Snee

Rob Bee

Jasmin Reeve

Harvey Clayton-Wright

Rob Bee

Jasmin Reeve

Harvey Clayton-Wright

Gareth Downes-Powell

Gareth Downes-Powell

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