PKG))  ANIMATION CONTENT CREATOR AND VOICE-
PUPPETEER 
((Banner:  Giving Voice to All)) 
((Reporter/Camera:  Lisa Vohra)) 
((Map:  Silver Spring, Maryland)) 
 
((NATS)) 
((Courtesy:  Siggy and the Bullies)) 
((Marci Heit, Content Creator and Voice-Over Artist)) 
Hink felt very sad.  He thought to himself: That sure looks 
like fun.  Maybe, if I ask again, everyone will let me help. 
((Marci Heit, Content Creator and Voice-Over Artist)) 
From the time I was a young child, I always wanted to be a 
voice-over artist. 
((Marci Heit, Content Creator and Voice-Over Artist)) 
No way, you want to go to the studio to learn about how I do 
voice-overs?   
My mom made these amazing kitchen tools.   
What do I say, I’m so silly.   
They have yellow and green and like better other stuff with 
them. 
Uh…..yeah. 
((Marci Heit, Content Creator and Voice-Over Artist)) 
I thought it was just the most fun thing you could possibly do, 
to give voices to characters, to commercials, to anything.  I 
would take out the spices in my house after dinner and I 
would do commercials with them.  I thought that all cars 
looked like characters.  I thought that the mirrors looked like 
ears and I thought the front of the car looked like a nose.  I 
would call up the local radio stations and I would ask them if 
I could be on their show.  They pretty much hung up on me.   
((Courtesy:  Marci Heit)) 
((Marci Heit, Content Creator and Voice-Over Artist)) 
I ended up moving out to California.  I was able to get an 
agent and they started sending me on auditions.  So really, a 
lifetime of giving voices to cars and inanimate objects really 
paid off. 
((NATS, SOT:  Marci in recording booth)) 
((Marci Heit, Content Creator and Voice-Over Artist)) 
We have a reservation but we’re a little early.   
Our bridge is being remodeled and we couldn’t stay another 
minute with all the racket.   
Aww.....has anyone ever told you that you have a very nice 
smile? 
((Marci Heit, Content Creator and Voice-Over Artist)) 
So I started doing voice-overs for commercials and some 
film shorts.  My favorite thing to really do was animated 
characters though.  
((NATS)) 
((Courtesy:  Kids on the Block)) 
((Marci Heit, Content Creator and Voice-Over Artist)) 
Siggy said, “Uh, Hink’s right.  It’s not fair to like shut him out.”   
((Marci Heit, Content Creator and Voice-Over Artist)) 
I was a volunteer for a puppet show program called “Kids on 
the Block”, which is a disability awareness puppet show 
program.  And the puppets were big and colorful and the 
message of the puppet show program was that kids are 
different but inside they’re the same.  And the message was 
so wonderful that I actually contacted the people who 
created the “Kids on the Bloc” program, to see if they wanted 
to do something for television.  I ended up writing a show. 
The “Kids on the Block” people wanted to keep their show 
exactly the way it was, but it, sort of, sent me on a path to 
create content. 
((NATS)) 
((Courtesy:  It’s Real Entertainment))   
((Marci Heit, Content Creator and Voice-Over Artist)) 
Is that the right design for your financial reporting? 
((Marci Heit, Content Creator and Voice-Over Artist)) 
And so, I ended up creating a company called, “It’s Real 
Entertainment”, which creates and develops original 
animated content.  I created a character for a show called, 
“Q.D. Foodie”, which is about a girl named Quinn Daisy 
who’s blind and loves to make things with food. 
((NATS)) 
((Courtesy:  It’s Real Entertainment))   
((Marci Heit, Content Creator and Voice-Over Artist)) 
My friends call me Q.D.  We’re foodies and we have so 
much fun because of our web show. 
((Marci Heit, Content Creator and Voice-Over Artist)) 
When I was involved in this puppet show program, “Kids on 
the Block”, there was a rotation of disabled speakers that 
would come and speak to the kids after every performance.  
I had the privilege of getting to know one of the disabled 
speakers really well because she lived not that far from me.   
((Courtesy:  Marci Heit)) 
((Marci Heit, Content Creator and Voice-Over Artist)) 
Her name was Elda and Elda lost her sight at age 70.  I met 
Elda when she was 90.  One of the things that Elda loved to 
do was to bake.  Elda took me into her home and she 
showed me how she made grocery lists and how she cooked 
and her personality was infectious and I was inspired by her.  
Quinn Daisy is loosely based on Elda.   
((Courtesy:  Q.D. Foodie))   
((Marci Heit, Content Creator and Voice-Over Artist)) 
So, we were creating some props for the characters in Q.D. 
Foodie to use and we designed these kitchen tools that were 
really just supposed to be fun for the characters.  I decided 
that they should be real. 
((NATS)) 
((Marci Heit, Content Creator and Voice-Over Artist)) 
So, I set out to make kitchen tools and we created these 
fabulous kitchen tools that are designed to be inclusive.  
Because our character Quinn Daisy is blind, we included 
Braille in the measuring cups, Braille in the measuring 
spoon.  The tools have easy grip handles.  They’re very 
sensory friendly.  The idea is that we really just want to get 
kids excited and engaged. 
((Marci Heit, Content Creator and Voice-Over Artist)) 
From the time I was a kid, I really enjoyed spending time in 
the kitchen.  So, that’s really something that I’m enjoying 
passing along to my child as well.  We cook together, we 
bake together and just have lots of fun and learn so many 
other life skills.   
((NATS:  Marci and her daughter)) 
((Marci Heit, Content Creator and Voice-Over Artist)) 
What’s Braille for one teaspoon?   
One dot.   
It’s that one dot and you know the Braille is in, there’s six..... 
((Marci Heit, Content Creator and Voice-Over Artist)) 
I never wanted to make my shows about the differences. 
((NATS)) 
((Courtesy:  It’s Real Entertainment)) 
Hi there.  I’m Lulu Square. 
((Marci Heit, Content Creator and Voice-Over Artist)) 
I just wanted to make them about different kids who have all 
different parts of their personalities and they come together 
and are able to use their strengths.  And that idea has 
filtered into every property that I’ve created, every show that 
I’ve created, every character, ensemble that I’ve created.  
The message of the puppet show was that kids are different 
but inside they’re the same.  And that is true universally. 
((NATS)) 
((Courtesy:  Siggy and the Bullies)) 
((Marci Heit, Content Creator and Voice-Over Artist)) 
Being a friend is a lot more fun than being a bully.....anyday! 
((NATS))