Event Presenter for Hire

Presenter, host or MC: what is the difference

The words overlap, and most briefs use them loosely. The useful difference is who you are talking to. A presenter delivers to camera or to autocue. The audience might be in the room, on a live stream or watching the film a week later. The script is tighter, the timings are fixed, and the delivery has to work on a screen as well as in a hall. That is the job of a corporate presenter, a conference presenter or a live event presenter.

A host or MC runs the live room. They welcome the guests, introduce each speaker, hold the running order and carry the energy between sessions. If that is your brief, see event host or master of ceremonies.

Rhys does both, and many events need both in one person. A hybrid conference needs someone who can hold the room and also talk straight down the lens to the people watching online. A product launch needs a scripted reveal and then someone who can work the floor. Booking one person for both, rather than a separate host and a separate voice, keeps the tone consistent from the stage to the edit.

What Rhys presents

Most presenting work falls into six kinds of brief. Rhys covers each of them, live or filmed, and many events combine two or three.

Rhys is an event presenter for hire across the UK. He is based in Essex, close to London, and works at the venue, in the studio or on a location shoot. Production companies and agencies can book him directly. Agency fees are net. The press and agency kit has bios, photos and the showreel.

Working to autocue and to the takes you have

Presenting is preparation first. Every booking starts with a briefing call, and the call and full preparation are included in the fee. Rhys learns the audience, the message and what the piece has to achieve, then works through the script with your producer, director or event manager. He can work from your script, adapt it into his own voice, or write the links from your running order. He checks names, pronunciations, sponsor mentions and product terms before anything is read out or recorded.

On the day he works to autocue or cards and rehearses with the technical team. On a live stage that means clean cues, agreed timings and room to flex when a session overruns. On a shoot it means respecting the schedule. Most filmed days have a fixed number of set-ups and a crew on the clock. Rhys aims to give the director usable takes early, offers alternative reads where the edit might need them, and takes direction with a performer’s ear.

His background helps. He started in venues, booking bands and running festivals, then planned and delivered cyber-security summits for the SANS Institute across twelve cities in Europe and the Middle East. As CEO and founder of the event operations platform TRM Flex, he understands production from the inside. If a video fails to play or a speaker is late to the stage, he covers the gap without the audience noticing. He knows what a crew, a director and a stage manager need from the person in front of the camera.

A voice you can also use in the edit

Rhys is a trained bass-baritone, and that training carries from the stage to the microphone. He records voice-over for events, brand films, trailers and in-venue audio, with the timing and tone of a live performer. Clients get a studio-quality read for a video, an ad or an announcement.

That makes him useful after the event as well as on the day. The presenter who opens your conference can also voice the highlights film, the sponsor trailer or the internal update that follows it. One voice runs through the live moment and the content you publish later, and you brief one person instead of two.

Voice-over is booked per project, from £250, with broadcast usage quoted separately. Hear the samples on the voice-over page.