About Fran

To Fran Tunno, voiceover isn’t just reading copy, it’s making those words touch someone in the audience. After 23 years of performing, writing and producing commercials, Fran’s learned that it’s all about the acting. The listener should feel like an eavesdropper on a private conversation, it should be that believable.

Fran has loved working behind the microphone since her first voiceover class, probably because it combined her two favorite things; reading and being a ham. She says, “I knew immediately this was something I’d want to do forever.” She’s studied in Los Angeles under Joyce Castellanos, Dick Orkin, Becky Bonar, Nancy Wolfson, Dolores Diehl, Joanie Gerber, Cindy Akers, Laurel van der Linde, Nick Omana, Marc Cashman, Carroll Day Kimble, Jeff Howell, Kat Lehman and others.

Fran’s love of voiceover extends to teaching as well. Fran currently teaches private voiceover lessons in her home, working with students in her recording studio. She served as a voiceover and writing mentor for co-workers at Salem Communications. Fran was also responsible for training new hires to read and interpret commercial copy for Metro Networks in Los Angeles. For more information, go to the Voiceover Lessons tab.

Fran has voiced thousands of commercials in her 23 year career and can currently be heard on 1-800 Medicine, a national TV commercial, numerous radio commercials for Salem Communications, as well as on TheWineryChannel.tv. She was the voice of HoneyBaked Ham in California for several years and voiced an award-winning, national FreeCreditReport.com commercial, along with other national commercials including ProFlowers.com and Snubbies.

With her great affection for reading, it was natural to tie in with the Audiobook Industry. Fran has recorded several audiobooks, including: “What Comes After Crazy,” by Sandi Kahn Shelton, “Nobody Knows,” by MaryJane Clark, and “Betrayal of Trust,” by Laurie Garrett.

Fran’s love of words extends to the written word as well. She not only loves reading and interpreting copy but enjoys writing it too. Fran spent the past 5 years working as a copywriter and voice talent for Salem Communications. She's freelance now and available to write for you. She’s also completing work on a book of memoirs about her mother, which includes her mom’s most famous recipes at the end of each chapter. It’s tentatively titled, “Miss Beaver County.” A condensed version of a chapter of that book, called "Da Holy Hour," was published in “The Los Angeles Times Magazine.”

If her name sounds familiar, it’s because Fran worked in Los Angeles as a news and traffic reporter on morning radio for 14 years. Fran has been heard on KABC, KBIG, KLAC, KCRW, KFWB, KNX, KPCC, KRLA and many other Los Angeles area stations. She also served as on-camera traffic reporter for KNBC-TV.