Wired from day one, I became hooked on radio at the age of nine. Next, an exhibit at the 1964-65 World’s Fair planted the seed of voice-over. A studio I built at home is where I taught myself recording and editing techniques. During junior high school, I was on the highly revered A/V squad. At age 16, I wrote, voiced and produced my first radio commercial.
I’ve been voicing and/or producing audio professionally since 1973, beginning as Copywriter and Production Director at a local radio station, where I also began developing character voices. Shortly after, while remaining in radio part-time, a multimedia production firm hired me as in-house Narrator and Audio Producer. For an impressive list of Fortune 500 clients, I applied the principles of effective advertising and furthered the techniques of telling stories, instructing, and motivating audiences with audio. My ability to understand their very often technical and/or jargon-laden scripts and to convey them in a familiar, conversational manner was so appreciated by clients that they rarely attended narration recording sessions.
In the five years at a small ad agency I co-founded, the commercials I wrote, voiced, and produced aired scores of times weekly on the highest rated New York City radio stations. I shared two Finalist awards for concept, copy, and production in 1985’s International Radio Festival of New York.
Returning to corporate communications, I not only again voiced and produced audio tracks, but also co-directed video shoots and post-production sessions. After a decade as Production Director and Air Talent at several radio stations, I now focus on providing a wide variety of effective communications in the form of voice acting, narrations and character voices for a broad spectrum of applications.
