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The workshops and seminars presented by Voicetrax are unique in the industry. Why? Because the instructors are selected from among the top voice actors, producers, writers, creative directors, agents, casting directors and industry experts from Los Angeles and the Bay Area. These gifted individuals are eager to share their years of experience and, in so doing, give something back to the industry they love.
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AL BEDROSIAN
Current Jobs - Voice actor; on-camera actor; teacher.
Previous Job - Supervising Special Agent, California Department of Justice.
Training and Education - BA, MA Political Science/Criminology;
Teaching Credential, San Jose State University; Voicetrax SF;
Improvworks; ComedySportz Improv; Full Circle Productions.
Credits - Client list includes: Commercials (voiceover): "Voice" of the
Fremont Automall (two-year campaign), 24-Hour Fitness, San Francisco
Ballet, Kodak (IMAX) Stone Mountain Georgia. Television (on-camera):
ProAim Infomercial, Sunsweet Prunes, HIV/AIDS Media Campaign.
Industrials: Charles Schwab, Hewlett Packard, Safeway, Seagate, Credit
Suisse-First Boston Bank, American Pharmaceutical, Novellus, Meta TV,
EDS Financial Services, Round Table Pizza, Advanced Micro Devices,
Robert Mondavi Wines, Rockwell Collins, McKesson, Medtronics,
Delicato Wines, Proposition 86, numerous medical education videos.
Video Games: "Virtua Cop 3," "Batman: Rise of Sin Tzu" and "serious"
games for the Department of Justice and Pacific Gas and Electric.
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AILEEN CASAS
Current Jobs - Voice actor; Quality Assurance, Genentech; mystery
evaluator for upscale restaurant, spas and hotels.
Previous Jobs - Various Biotech industry jobs ranging from process
science and development to manufacturing management.
Training and Education - BS, Integrative Biology, University of
California, Berkeley; Voicetrax SF; Blupka, Inc.
Credits - Recent voiceover credits include: winning most recent
Voicetrax Idol LA competition; TV commercials for Foodmaxx and Sales
Genie; IVR for AT&T and Virgin Mobile Music ID; Video Games for
Sega ("Too Spicy," "Dinosaur Kings"), Edios ("Escape from Bug Island")
and Sierra ("Pet Vet II"); Radio spots for Foodmaxx, Kelly Moore, First
Republic, and Nature’s Cure; and in-store ads for Mervyn’s.
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ANNA MATHIAS
Current Job - Actress, singer, screenwriter and coach.
Previous Jobs - Acting coach in LA for The Voiceover Connection,
The Spolin Players and Richard Klein.
Training and Education - BA in Dramatic Arts from UC Berkeley; studied with Del Close and Viola Spolin, two legends in the world of Improv.
Credits - Recent credits include: ADR for film and TV: "Evan Almighty,"
"21," "Talladega Nights," "World Trade Center," "Beerfest," "Borat,"
"24." Animation: "Alice Mitchell" on the "Dennis the Menace" TV
series. Commercials: University Hospital, McDonalds, Delta, Farmer’s
Insurance, Associated Bank, and Dish Antenna. Theatre: currently
performing improv with the Spolin Players, and the likes of Dan
Castellaneta and Ryan Styles at the Second City Alumni Jam. On
camera: "Irene" in "Domestic Import," "Saint Anne" in "Mary, Mother
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BOB BERGEN
Current Jobs - Voice actor; on-camera host; nationally-renowned
lecturer; voice acting coach.
Previous Jobs - Professional voice actor since the age of 18; Universal
Studios tour guide.
Training and Education - “The Groundlings,” John Ruskin, Daws Butler,
Michael Bell, Brian Cummings and Dave Madden.
Credits - Best known for puh-portraying puh-p-“Porky Pig” (as well as
other classic Warner Brothers characters), Bob also played the leading
role of “Luke Skywalker” in multiple games of LucasArts’ “Star Wars”
series. Some of Bob’s other recent notable voice work includes “Bucky”
in Disney’s animated series “The Emperor’s New School,” “Comet” in
“The Santa Clause 3,” and “Tweety,” “Speedy,” and “Porky,” in the
animated holiday feature “Bah, Humduck!” Commercial campaigns
include: Sprint, H&R Block, promos for The Cartoon Network,
Albertson’s, Red Bull, Armed Forces Radio, PG&E, Publix, and Diet Pepsi.
Bob returned to the LA stage in 2007 with his one-man show “Bob
Bergen: So Here’s The Deal!” which he has subsequently performed
in theaters throughout the country. (Bob has hundreds of additional
animation, game, commercial credits, on-camera and emceeing credits
that can be found on his website.) Website: www.bobbergen.com
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BOB SYMONS
Current Job - Full-time voice actor; part-time golfer.
Previous Job - 25 years as high-tech corporate legal counsel, including 17 years as VP & General Counsel at DIALOG Information Services, Palo Alto and Mountain View.
Training and Education - JD, Loyola University School of Law; BS,
Communications, Southern Illinois University; Voicetrax SF and Full
Circle Productions.
Credits - Narration: Mariah Vineyards, UCSF Children’s Hospital,
Stratosphere Hotel. Audio Tours: American Beauty Museum, Southeast
Asian Art Museum; "400 Years of Tsarist Russia." TV Documentary:
"The True Believers." Interactive Books: "The Human Body," and "Day
in the City" for Leapfrog Toys. Commercials: Concannon Chardonnay,
MTV Music Awards, Quokka, Levis, Oak Tree Mazda, Frontier Infiniti,
Adidas, Heald Business College and Match.com.
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BRIAN SOMMER
Current Job - Voice actor; instructor.
Training and Education - Voicetrax SF.
Credits - Voiceover credits include TV: Comcast, Best Buy, PineSol,
SF Opera. Radio: Comcast, University of Notre Dame, "Bay to
Breakers," Yahoo, Slingbox, WAMU, Subway, Food Maxx, First Republic
Bank. Video Games: Sony’s, "SOCOM;" Ubisoft’s "America’s Army: Rise
of a Soldiers;" Sega’s "Phantasy Star Universe," "Chrome Hounds,"
"Armored Core: Last Raven," "Alien Syndrome," "Too Spicy," and
"Race TV;" Microsoft’s "Rise of Nations: Rise of Legends;" Flagship
Studios’ "Hellgate:London;" Backbone Entertainment’s "Death Jr.
2: Root of Evil;" Telltale Games’ "Sam and Max," and "Out from
Boneville;" Autumn Moon’s "A Vampyre Story." Narration: Visa, Adobe,
Sun Micro, Sprint, EBay, and the LA Angels of Anaheim. Brian is also the
voice of the "Edge" electronic voting machine, Hewlett Packard’s Circle
Awards Ceremony and the Disney Gallery and "Disneyana" shop at
Disneyland. Website: www.briansommer.com |
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CHARLIE ADLER
Current Jobs - Emmy® award-winning director and two-time Annie
Award nominee; casting director; voiceover artist.
Previous Jobs - Remedial reading coach, church caretaker/janitor,
house renovator/painter, baker for a house of ill repute, graphic artist,
nude model.
Credits - A partial list of directing credits include: animated TV series -
over 500 hours of animated shows including "Shark Hunters" with
Dustin Hoffman, "Bratz," nine seasons of the Emmy®-award winning
"Rugrats," "Rugrats: All Grown Up," "Striperella," "Eloise at the
Plaza," "Spawn," and most recently, "The Replacements," "Emperor’s
New School," and "Flapjack;" direct-to-video - the best-selling "The
Happy Elf" with Harry Connick Jr. and "The Nutty Professor" with
Jerry Lewis; full-length feature films - "Jimmy Neutron," and all of the
"The Wild Thornberrys," and "Rugrats" films which featured actors
such as Bruce Willis, Lynn Redgrave, Patrick Stewart, Martin Short,
Susan Sarandon, John Lithgow, and Whoopi Goldberg; stage - Radio
City Music Hall engagement and national tour of "Rugrats Live." As a
voice actor Charlie has appeared as a regular in over ninety animated
series, and can be heard an average of twenty times a day all over the
world. Named one of the "Top Thirteen All Time Voice-Over Artists"
by Animation Magazine and "Voice Of The Decade" by Animation
World News, Charlie has created many memorable characters including
"Buster Bunny" from "Tiny-Toon Adventures;" "Cow," "Chicken"
and "The Red Guy" from "Cow & Chicken;" and "Starscream" from
"Transformers" (both in the original series and recent films). On
Broadway, he succeeded Harvey Feinstein in "Torch Song Trilogy," and
later toured in the first national company. His critically acclaimed one-man
show "There Used To Be Fireflies" won him a Dramalogue Award
For Best Actor. |
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CHOPPER BERNET
Current and Previous Jobs - Actor; voice actor; writer; director;
construction worker; waiter.
Training and Education - BA in Theatre, Colorado College; Voicetrax SF;
ACT Summer Training Congress; Richard Seyd; Mark Monroe; Full Circle
Productions.
Credits - Promos: MSNBC (ongoing); NBC (including the "Summer
Olympics," "America’s Got Talent," "The Apprentice," and all of NBC’s
prime-time dramatic series); The Science Channel; Fox SportsNet;
ESPN Major League Soccer; Discovery Channel; Fine Living Network.
Commercial campaigns: Verizon, Coors, Janus Mutual Funds,
McDonalds, Safeway, PUC’s "Flex Your Power," Pacific Bell, Comp USA,
Starbucks, Clawson Pickles. Film Roles: "Terminator 3," "The Twenty,"
"Belief," "Gambling," "Coffee and Language," "Spirit: Stallion of the
Cimarron (voiceover)."
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CHUCK KOUROUKLIS
Current Job - Voice actor; instructor; Voicetrax SF factotum.
Previous Jobs - Morning show producer and sidekick; afternoon disc
jockey; Production Manager; Creative Services Director.
Training and Education - Chemistry BA, University of Virginia; Voicetrax.
Credits - Northern California Honda TV and radio, Brocade/San Jose
Sharks radio ads; Sega "Condemned II," Spike & Comedy Channel
campaigns; Magnusson Lexus; Polycom web narration; Focal Point,
multimedia narration; "Ten Points," audio book by Bill Strickland;
Somatone’s "Farm Vet," "Galactic Command," and "Pet Pals" games;
"Lidosite" narration; Slingbox convention video; Synapse Diabetes
narration; Leapfrog Toys’ "One-Tooth the Pirate;" Sponge Bob
incidentals; "Idjits (Le Poopier);" Williams/Gerard live presenter;
in-house "Condemned II" narration for Duncan/Channon.
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CYNTHIA SONGÉ
Current Jobs - Voiceover actor and teacher; voice director and
producer; casting director.
Previous Jobs - Actor.
Training and Education - BA in Theater Arts from UCLA; voiceover training with Susan Blu; acting with Uta Hagen, Mary Carver, Milton Katselis, and Peggy Furey.
Credits - Recent casting assignments include the feature-length
animated film, "Curious George 2," and the "Handy Manny,"
"Transformers," "Veggie Tales," and "Land Before Time" animated
series. Cynthia has lent her voice to an array of animated characters
and commercial campaigns including Ford-Mercury, Nationwide
Insurance, DePaul University and Zion’s Bank. She has also appeared
on-camera in television and feature film roles, and on-stage in
numerous performances. A frequent guest instructor at UCLA and AFI
(American Film Institute), Cynthia recently co-wrote Word of Mouth:
A Guide to Commercial Voice-Over Excellence, 3rd Edition, Completely
Revised and Updated with Susan Blu. |
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DARRAGH O’FARRELL
Current Job - Senior Manager of Voice and Audio, LucasArts.
Previous Job - Manager of Voice Department; voiceover director
and producer, LucasArts.
Training and Education - BA in English, Edinburgh University.
Credits - Darragh is credited on so many Stars Wars games that he
jokes, "I can’t remember all their names..." Some of the more recent
Star Wars titles include: "LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga,"
"LEGO Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy," "Empire at War," "Empire
at War- Forces of Corruption," "Lethal Alliance," "Battlefront II,"
"Episode III – Revenge of the Sith" "Galaxies – Episode III Rage of the
Wookies" "Republic Commando," and "Knights of the Old Republic
II – The Sith Lords." Other recent (non-Star Wars) projects include:
"Thrillville," "Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction," "Armed &
Dangerous" and "Indiana Jones and the Emperor’s Tomb." Darragh
has also worked on over 150 cartoons; commercials for Pepsi, Toyota
and Nissan; various documentaries; and numerous music videos. |
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DAVID W. COLLINS
Current Jobs - Audio lead, Voice Director and Sound Designer for
LucasArts; voice actor; professional singer, songwriter, drummer, bassist
and guitarist.
Training and Education - BA in Theatre and Music from Whitworth
University in Spokane, WA; alum of Berklee College of Music in Boston
where he studied audio production.
Credits - For the past 10 years, David has created award-winning audio
and vocal soundtracks for LucasArts, on titles such as "Star Wars: The
Force Unleashed," "Knights of the Old Republic," "Thrillville," and
"Monkey Island." He’s cast and directed actors in San Francisco, Los
Angeles, New York, Chicago, London, and New Zealand. As an actor,
David has been performing all of his life. He toured in a youth theatre
program and performed in over 50 separate productions throughout
California and parts of Europe before he was 17 years old. Since then,
he has gone on to work as a voice actor on various television and radio
commercials, and of course, video games. |
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FRANK COPPOLA
Current Job - Director, actor, teacher, coach.
Previous Jobs - Director, actor, teacher.
Training and Education - Kent State University and John Carroll University, Ohio; Acting & Directing training in New York and Los Angeles with David Le Grant, Paul Richards, Viola Spolin and Stella Adler.
Credits - Event Production: Created & directed "The Power of a Promise: Ninety Years of Girl Scouting," ARCO Arena, Sacramento. Theatre Directing: Over 50 productions around the country including the Paper Mill Playhouse, New Jersey; Theatre Under the Stars, Houston; 5th Avenue Theatre, Seattle; San Jose Stage Company, The Magic Theatre, 42nd Street Moon, Lamplighters
and Theatre Artists of Marin in the Bay Area. Television Directing: Staff director at WCTV-Los Angeles. Acting: (Film:) "The Buddy System;" (TV:) "Nash Bridges," "America's Most Wanted," "The Newhart Show," "Soap," "The Judge," "Jake and the Fatman;" (Broadway and Off-Broadway:) "Fiddler on the Roof," "No Place To Be Somebody," "Wanted;" (Regional Theatre:) "A Look At The Fifties," "Love's Labour's Lost."
Current coaching
clients include on-air news anchors, corporate executives and
professional actors.
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FREDDI ROGERS
Current Job - Voice actor.
Previous Jobs - Kitchen Design; Barista.
Training and Education - Theatre Major and Music Minor at CLU in
Southern California; 13 years of singing lessons; numerous classes at
Voicetrax SF.
Credits - Winner of 2007 Voicetrax Idol LA competition. Recent
bookings include: McDonald’s (TV), Sally’s Beauty Supply, Chronicle
Press, PNC Bank, Radio Disney, Gaggenau, Sutter Health, Arizona Tile,
Arm Forces, "Gears of War 2" for Xbox, and a talking princess toy. |
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GREG DEBEER
Current Job - Dialog Manager, Sony Computer Entertainment America.
Previous Jobs - Dialog Coordinator; Senior Sound Designer.
Training and Education - BA, Film Studies, Colorado University.
Credits - Game credits include: "Lair," "God of War II," "SOCOM," "Eye
of Judgment," "Hot Shots Golf," "Pixel Junk: Racers," "Pain," "Pursuit
Force," "ATV Offroad Fury," "Warhawk," "Anti-Grav," "Twisted Metal:
Head On," "Rise of the Kasai," "Rise To Honor," "Syphon Filter," "My
Street," "Extermination," "The Con," "Sly Cooper," "Jak X," "Delta
Force," "Tachyon: The Fringe." |
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JACQUIE SHRIVER
Current Job - Senior Dialog Coordinator, Sony Computer Entertainment
(SCEA), Santa Monica.
Previous Job - Dialog Coordinator; Project Manager, SCEA.
Training and Education - BA, Electronic Media, University of Cincinnati,
College Conservatory of Music.
Credits - "SOCOM: Tactical Strike," "SOCOM: Combined Assault,"
"SOCOM: Fireteam Bravo 2," "God of War: Chains of Olympus," "Lair,"
"Uncharted: Drakes Fortune," "Dead Rising," "Onimusha," "Resident
Evil 4," "Marc Ecko’s Getting Up," "Forgotten Realms: Demon Stone,"
"Area 51," "Hot Shots Tennis," "NBA: The Life 2007 – 2009."
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JEFF HOWELL
Current Job - Vice-President, Production, World Wide Wadio.
Previous Jobs - Casting Director, Bert Berdis & Company; Talent Agent,
Abrams-Rubaloff & Lawrence.
Training and Education - BS, Broadcasting and Film, Boston University;
Directing Actors for TV and Film, UCLA.
Credits - While at Bert Berdis & Company, served as the casting
director for thousands of radio commercial productions. Produced
audio novels for Leonard Nimoy and John de Lancie’s Sci-fi company,
including "The Invisible Man," "Journey to the Center of the Earth,"
"The Time Machine," and "The Lost World." Extras casting director for
"Moonlighting," "Cagney and Lacey," "The Wonder Years," "Matlock,"
"Robo-Cop," and "The Running Man." Website: www.Wadio.com |
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JOHN BARON
Current Jobs - Co-director Alexander Educational Center in Berkeley, a
teacher-training facility for The Alexander Technique.
Previous Jobs - Alexander teacher in Europe and US; professional actor
in the United Kingdom for over ten years.
Training and Education - Studied with some of Europe’s finest voice
teachers, including National Theatre voice coach, Kate Fleming, and
Florence Norburg (voice teacher to both actors and singers, including
Rex Harrison, Vanessa Redgrave and Kiri Te Kanawa).
Credits - Acting credits include leading roles in TV plays, series and
film, and performances with many regional, touring and national
theater companies, including England’s National Theatre. An Alexander
teacher specializing in work with performing artists, John has taught
extensively in Europe and in the U.S. He developed his own course
“Tension and Performance” which became an accredited class at Cal
State University East Bay. John works with the San Francisco Ballet and
Sundance Institute, and also recently presented his “The Actor In You”
workshop at the Esalen Institute.
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KATHLEEN GARRETT
Current Jobs - Voice actor; on-camera and stage actor.
Training and Education - In addition to years of training as an actor, Kathleen took her
first voiceover class from Thom Pinto nearly twenty years ago (evidently
he taught her well...).
Credits - Kathleen has narrated numerous one-hour crime and forensic
shows, including "Solving the Perfect Murder," "Final Days of an
Icon: Sharon Tate" and "Final Days of an Icon: Gianni Versace," and
can currently be heard on "Solved!" a thirteen episode series on the
Investigation Discovery Network. On the lighter side, Kathleen has
narrated shows for the "E" and Discovery Channels such as "Celebrity
Profile: Sarah Ferguson," and several episodes of sports biographies for
Oxygen Sports. Other notable voiceover work includes a long-running
TV ad campaign for Royal Caribbean Cruise Line; promos for Oxygen
Sports; and radio ads for companies such as McDonald’s, Verizon,
Chevy Trucks, AAA, Estee Lauder, Fox Sports Net, Staples and numerous
political spots. Her on-camera credits include a featured role in Ridley
Scott’s "American Gangster;" TV-series guest and co-starring roles on
the Star Trek series "Deep Space Nine," and "Voyager" ("Tannis");
"Home Improvement," "Law and Order," "Law and Order: SVU,"
"Without a Trace," "Murphy Brown," and "Melrose Place." Kathleen
has received both the Drama-Logue Critics Award and the Los Angeles
Drama Critics Circle Award for her work on stage.
Website: www.kathleengarrett.com
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LISA BANEY
Current Jobs - Audiobook producer and director; sound editor; teacher; musician.
Previous Jobs - Audio post-production engineer; “sound-for-film” mixer; seamstress; bartender.
Training and Education - BA degrees in English and Music; undergraduate degrees in Radio and Television production and operations.
Credits - Recent audiobook titles include Naomi Klein’s SHOCK DOCTRINE, L. Jon Wertheim’s Running the Table, Naomi Novik’s
Empire of Ivory, and many others.
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MADDY BASCOM
Current Jobs - Freelance casting and voiceover director for animation
and multimedia; Voiceover instructor in LA and Santa Barbara.
Previous Job - Voice director at DIC Entertainment.
Training and Education - University education in Theater, nine years at DIC Entertainment.
Credits - Directed hundreds of episodes for DIC including "Dennis the Menace," "Super Mario Brothers," "Sonic the Hedgehog," "Madeleine," "Camp Candy," and "Captian Planet." Also directed feature-length animated films, "Jack
and the Beanstalk," and "Lapitch, the Little Shoemaker." Maddy has cast and directed many interactive
games including "The Legacy of Kain," "Schoolhouse Rock," and
"Disney’s Haunted Mansion." Her multimedia clients include Disney, EA
Entertainment, Southpeak, and Education Planet.
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MARCI GALEA
Current Jobs - Manager, Talent, EA Entertainment: casts talent,
negotiates and coordinates upwards of 25 projects annually for the
Electronic Arts global properties.
Previous Jobs - Has spent over 18 years in the video game industry in
jobs ranging from creative services to business relations.
Training and Education - Marci began her video game career in public relations and
marketing. After many years of distribution management and business
affairs, she felt a strong pull to return to the creative side of the
industry. Her current Talent Management position blends the creative
juices and business skills she has honed over 18 years..
Credits - Among her numerous credits, Marci has worked on hiring
announcers, celebrities and day players for "Command and Conquer 3"
and "Army of Two," as well as "The Sims," "Madden NFL," and "Need
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MICHA BERMAN
Current Jobs - Voice actor; author; social worker.
Previous Jobs - Adjunct professor, NYU; cruise director; short stints in
strange smelly places including a dairy farm, law school, U.S. Congress,
and the Tony Awards.
Training and Education - Bachelors, University of Virginia; Masters,
NYU and George Washington University; Voicetrax SF.
Credits - Recent voiceover credits include radio and TV commercials
for First Republic Bank, Kelly-Moore Paints, Notre Dame de Namur
University, the United States Postal Service, Brown and Toland, AMD,
Dentek Nightguard, and as the voice “Vanity Smurf.” Micha’s recently
published and wildly entertaining book about his adventures as a
cruise director, Permanent Passenger: My Life on a Cruise Ship, is
available at selected bookstores throughout the Bay Area and through
Amazon.com. Website: www.michathemouth.com
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MONTEREY MORRISSEY
Current Job - Voice actor; Executive Director and co-founder,
Film Oregon Alliance; On-camera, stage and improvisational actor.
Previous Jobs - Marina management; contract sales; Merchant Marine;
world traveler; bike messenger; food and beverage industry jobs;
hot roasted peanut sales.
Training and Education - Voicetrax SF; Cliff Osmond’s Actors’ Studio;
Full Circle Productions; The Next Stage: Joie Landeaux; Bay Area
Theater Sports; Mark Monroe.
Credits - In print, on radio, on stage, on the Internet and on-camera,
Monterey has played roles ranging from a yoga instructor to a
mischievous pirate to a staff officer in Patton’s Army. He’s been seen on
the History Channel and on the big screen, and his voice has been used
to promote clients such as Kodak, WebEx, Albertson’s, the San Francisco
Exploratorium and Zao Noodles. Website: www.montereymorrissey.com
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NANCY CARTWRIGHT
Current Jobs - Voice and on-camera actor; author of best-selling
memoir, My Life As A 10-Year-Old Boy.
Previous Jobs - Scooped ice cream; worked on an assembly line; waited tables at a
Greek restaurant; at a radio station and the UCLA Theater Arts Library.
Training and Education - Daws Butler (vocal characterizations); Tamara Wilcox-Smith and Jonathan Winters (improvisation); and Milton Katselas (Master Acting Class).
Credits - "The Simpsons" TV series and feature-length film where in
addition to Bart, she also plays Nelson, Ralph, Tom and various other
Springfield citizens; "Chuckie" on "Rugrats;" "Rufus, the Naked Mole
Rat" on "Kim Possible;" and "Todd" on Disney’s "The Replacements."
Past voiceover credits include "Richie Rich," "God, the Devil and Bob;"
"Mike, Lu and Og;" "Animaniacs!" "Pinky and the Brain;" and "The
Critic." On-camera credits include roles on the TV series, "Cheers," "The
Fresh Prince of Bel-Air," and "Fame," as well as the lead in a TV movie,
"Marian Rose White." She has received multiple Emmys, a People’s
Choice Award, and an Annie Award for her portrayal of Bart Simpson,
and also received Emmys for her work on "Animaniacs" and "Pinky,
Elmyra and the Brain." Website: www.nancycartwright.com.
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NED LOTT
Current Jobs - Freelance Producer, voice talent director and voice
casting director.
Previous Jobs - Senior Manager, Disney Character
Voices; voice talent director, The Learning Company.
Training and Education - BA in Radio/TV/Film from Biola University.
Credits - Producer and casting director on eight Studio Ghibli titles,
including Hayao Miyazaki’s Oscar-nominated theatrical release,
"Howl’s Moving Castle." Other notable accomplishments include
casting Liam Neeson as the voice of "Aslan" for "The Chronicles of
Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe," and "Prince Caspian".
Ned has also cast and directed numerous voiceover projects and ADR
sessions for the Walt Disney Company, Pixar and SquareEnix. Most
recently, he completed work on "Coraline" for Universal Pictures. |
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PETER DUNNE
Current Jobs - Lead sound designer at Antenna Audio (part of
Discovery Communications); voiceover director for independent films,
promotional spots, podcasts.
Training and Education - background in music composition, audio
engineering, music production and performance.
Credits - Nine years with Antenna Audio, casting and directing voice
talent for audio and multimedia tours. Peter has produced audio
for all major American museums and attractions, including the
Metropolitan Museum in New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, the
Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the De Young. He has also won
multiple AAM (American Association of Museums) and NAI (National
Association for Interpretation) awards for various productions including
the Kara Walker exhibit at the Whitney Museum, the Ansel Adams
exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and "High Societies"
at the San Diego Museum of Art. |
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ROGER VOSBURG
Current Job - Voice actor; voiceover instructor; corporate trainer;
Business Attorney (nobody’s perfect).
Previous Job - Business Attorney.
Training and Education - JD, Southwestern University; BA, Political Science, Long Beach State University; Voicetrax, SF.
Credits - Clients include: Adobe, AXA Financial, Mechanics Bank,
Boston Gas and Electric, Allegheny Energy, AAA, Borders, Chevron,
Ford, Levi Strauss, Wells Fargo, ETrade, Leapfrog, Logitech, Hewlett
Packard, Genentech, Avaya Communications, Cisco, San Francisco
Opera, UC Davis Medical Center, Pacific Laser Eye Center, Portland State
University, Bay Area Jobs.com, National Presidential Portrait Gallery,
Producer’s Guild Awards, SamTrans, and numerous political radio spots,
documentaries and audiobooks.
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SAM POND
Current Job - Founder and owner of Pond Radio Entertainment.
Previous Jobs - Founder, president and creative director of Blazing
Paradigm; associate creative director at Goodby, Silverstein & Partners;
copywriter at Chiat/Day and Hal Riney & Partners.
Training and Education - American Conservatory Theatre;
Oregon Shakespearean Festival, Ashland; off-Broadway (NY).
Credits - His clients have covered the spectrum of products and services
including Sega of America, Pizza Hut, Starbucks, Mirage Hotels,
Transamerica, Gymboree, The North Face, 24-Hour Fitness, Kirkwood
Ski Resort, Ghirardelli Chocolates, Sutter Home Wines, as well as
Stroh’s, Rainier, Spaten and Lone Star beers. Sam has been honored
with numerous advertising industry awards, including "Best of Show"
at New York’s One Show (the first and only time that the honor has
been awarded to a radio campaign) and the grand prize of $1,000,000
in Clear Channel radio airtime at the recent National EAR Awards.
Website: www.pondradio.com |
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SIRENETTA LEONI
Current Jobs - Voice and on-camera actor; voiceover director, casting
director, producer and coach; marketing consultant.
Previous Jobs - Merrill Lynch Financial Consultant; VISA,
Department Head.
Training and Education - Voicetrax; Cliff Osmond’s Actors’ Studio; Full
Circle Productions; CSU, East Bay, BA in Political Science; Università di
Firenze (Florence) Law School.
Credits - Voice and on-camera credits include: San Francisco Chronicle
radio ads, EA Games’ "The Godfather" series, Valley Medical Center
"Yes on Measure A" TV ads, TeleNav GPS, "Gondolier of Love" video
game, Sun Micro, Intel, Wal-Mart, NIH, Clorox, Union Bank, C & H
Sugar, C/NET, Lexmark, Papa Murphy’s Pizza, museum tours and
educational games. Other credits include creating and developing
the on-line casting site Voiceyenta.com; casting for the "Hellgate:
London" game and HGTV’s "Sleep On It" series; as well as directing and
producing voiceover for various multimedia projects.
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SUSAN BLU
Current Jobs - Emmy-nominated animation director, actor, teacher and author.
Credits - Countless... Animation directing credits include animated full-length feature films-
"Brer Rabbit," "Stuart Little 3," "Clifford
the Movie," "Balto II & III," and "Land Before Time VI-XI;" more than
a thousand episodes of recognizable and successful cartoon series
including: "Juniper Lee," "The Misadventures of Maya & Miguel,"
"Curious George," "Shanna," "Dragon Booster," "Clifford: Puppy
Days," "Clifford, the Big Red Dog," "Spiderman," "The Mummy,"
"Jackie Chan," "Men In Black," "Land Before Time," "The Magic School
Bus," "The Tick," and "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles." Voiceover
credits include the "Pillsbury Dough Girl," "Granny Smurf," "Flimflam"
on "Scooby Doo," Arcee on "Transformers," "Flintstone Kids,"
"Ghostbusters" and hundreds of commercials. On-camera appearances
include guest starring roles on "Three’s Company," "The Bob Newhart
Show," and "Knight Rider." Susan also co-authored, Word of Mouth:
A Guide to Voiceover Excellence, the newest edition of which can be
found in most major bookstores, both on- and off-line. |
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TED GRIGGS
Current Job - Vice President of Programming & Operations, Executive
Producer, Fox SportsNet Bay Area.
Previous Job - Producer; director; on-air talent; reporter; voice talent.
Training and Education - California State University East Bay, Theatre
Arts; San Francisco State University, Broadcasting.
Credits - Voiceover directing credits include nationally-syndicated
documentaries narrated by actors such as Martin Sheen, Cicely Tyson,
Ted Danson, Danny Glover, Ed Begley Jr., Dennis Franz and Teri Garr;
and sports documentaries narrated by renowned sports personalities
including John Madden, Dick Enberg, Brent Musberger, Tim Ryan, Pat
O’Brien, Greg Gumbel, and Al Trautwig. On-air experience includes
stints as a reporter and anchor, and Ted was widely acclaimed for
his college football reporting on ABC’s syndicated "Race for #1:
College Football Report." Voiceover credits include narration for Time
Magazine documentaries, ESPN, NBC "Sports Olympic Previews" and
other various syndicated television programming. |
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TERRY BERLAND
Current Jobs - Award-winning casting director for on-camera
television, voiceover, radio commercials, animation, hosting.
Previous Jobs - Head of casting for Madison Avenue agency, BBDO/NY.
Credits - Terry’s casting career spans twenty-five years and has earned
her several prestigious awards, including a CLIO and an ADDY®. She is
known for casting legions of commercials for such high-profile clients
as Apple, Mercedes, Nike, Gillette, Discover Card, Pepsi, Comcast, HP,
Nissan, Burger King, and even the voice of the Taco Bell Chihuahua!
Terry has established a reputation for developing and discovering
talent; she’s credited with giving actors who went on to become
household names, such as Jason Alexander, their first big break.
She also co-authored the best-selling "how-to" book, Breaking Into
Commercials: The Complete Guide to Marketing Yourself, Auditioning
to Win and Getting the Job, Second Edition, which is available through
Amazon and in bookstores.
Website: www.terryberlandcasting.com. |
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THOM PINTO
Current and Previous Jobs - Voice actor, voiceover coach.
Training and Education - UCLA, BA in Psychology. Thom credits Bill Bell,
Kiva Lawrence and Sonny Mathias for the rest of his training.
Credits - Promos: "CBS Evening News with Katie Couric," The CW,
HBO, Fine Living Network and numerous television stations across the
country including KRON-TV, since 1995. Commercial campaigns include:
Pacific Life, DirecTV, McDonalds, Norton 360 Software and Sutter
Health. Documentaries: Travel Channel, History Channel, Court TV, and
yes, the Jewelry Channel. Audiobooks: "The Emotional Intelligence
Quick Book," and "The Little Book of Common Sense Investing."
Fun Stuff: Recurring roles on "Harvey Birdman," HP podcasts, and
commercial spoofs for "Real Time With Bill Maher."
Website: www.thompinto.com
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WILL BECKMAN
Current Jobs - Voice Director, LucasArts.
Previous Jobs - Producer, Red Sky Interactive; Voice Editor, LucasArts;
Stormfront Studios, Sound Designer.
Training and Education - BA, Film Studies, Colorado University.
Credits - Recent credits include producing, directing and casting
voiceovers for "Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic," "Thrillville,"
"Star Wars: Empire at War, Mercenaries," "Star Wars: Battlefront,
Clone Wars," and "Star Wars: Rebel Strike." Will has also produced
multimedia projects for Miller Brewing, Absolut Vodka, and NASCAR,
and directed top sports announcers such as John Madden, Pat
Summerall and Mel Allen for interactive games.
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