Recognized as one of the world's leading directors and authorities on voice over, he says, “Although I never had the voice for it, I guess my ears work pretty well.”

Evidently so. David's ears are considered the best in the industry, and he is one of the country's most active voice-over producers, instructors, and speakers. Since founding Edge Studio in 1988, he has directed thousands of voice over productions nationally and internationally.

His background is unique:
He began his career producing, directing and engineering music artists ranging from Mel Torme, John Mayer, Deep Purple, and Jose Feliciano. Not long after, the studio became voice over by day, music at night. At the request of his professional voice over clients, he began offering voice over training sessions in 1991, and in 1992 wrote the first edition of the copyrighted “Voice Over Technique Guidebook”.

In 2000, he transformed Edge Studio to produce, cast, and train exclusively the spoken voice.

Voice talent rely on David's ability to help them find their full potential – they benefit from his personal perception, straight-forwardness, detailed production savvy, and acute ear. Clients and agents also rely on his ability to pinpoint the right voice talent for their production.

He has directed and engineered for renowned clients such as Cosmopolitan, Nickelodeon, AOL, Duracell, Disney, Gatorade, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Special Olympics, Celebrity Cruise Lines, Gillette, Fila, Pixar, Prudential, DaimlerChrysler, The United Nations, Lucent Technology, GE Corporation, Pitney Bowes, IBM, The US Postal Service, Scholastic, The U.S. Army, Microsoft, Earthlink, and many others.

He has trained media personalities from National Public Radio, Associated Press, ESPN, Discovery, Lifetime, and countless radio stations including CBS and Bloomberg Radio.

Celebrity talent produced at Edge Studio include Mel Brooks, Joan Rivers, Phil Donahue, Kate Jackson, Eartha Kitt, Tom Brokaw, John Ratzenberger, Method Man, Geoffrey Holder, Denise Austin, Mark Linn-Baker, Lisa Loeb, Robert Vaughn, BD Wong, Melissa Joan Hart, Mason Adams, more than 35 leading actors from Broadway, and more than 40 leading television actors.

He has worked on TV shows including Style Network's reality show “Clean House”, he has coached star Michael Schulson in Style Network's “Pantry Raid”, star Jason Cameron in TLC's “While You Were Out”, star Lisa Loeb in E Channel's “#1 Single”, PBS's “POV program”, a team of directors and copywriters for USA network, and stars Angeline Hartman and Tom Morris in “America’s Most Wanted.”

Edge Studio remains one of the country's most acclaimed voice over facilities, offering voice over production, casting, and education.

Sara moved to New York City in September of 2007 after four years in Aspen, Colorado. She packed away her snowboard and bought her first unlimited metrocard. Sara is originally from Tallahassee and graduated from the University of Virginia with a B.A. in English Language and Literature. As a Program Director at a Colorado radio station, she hosted a daily air shift, and at times lent a helping hand to every department... producing commercials, writing copy, and engineering. Yes, she has been to the mountaintop and seen a radio transmitter site.

In addition to overseeing operations at Edge Studio, she is a terrific speaker, voice talent, and part-time DJ on SIRIUS XM Satellite Radio.

Morgan Paradis came to New York from Winnipeg, Canada, where she was a full time Anthropology student, a co-owner of a vegan restaurant, and a guitarist and vocalist in up to three bands at the same time! Strangely enough, life has slowed down a little bit since moving to the big city. Morgan is very excited to be using her small business experience as a part of the Edge Studio crew.

Morgan's recording and performing experience is on the musical side of things. She has recorded several times with her music projects, and all of those sessions have been released on old fashioned vinyl records; she's also a vinyl collector. She's done quite a bit of touring in support of her music releases and loves being on the road.

Morgan's plans for the future in New York include staying busy at Edge, writing and performing with her husband in their guitar and drum duo, and only getting a little bit lost on the subway.

Originally from Illinois, Joey came to New York to get her MFA in acting from the New School for Drama. Since graduating Joey has worked as an actor in both theater and film in the city, and as an on-camera host and live events announcer. She currently can be seen (and heard) as the On Field Host for the Staten Island Yankees Minor League Baseball team, as an announcer for the New York Road Runners, and a pub trivia host in Queens.

Cathy has a unique sound. Born and raised in Brooklyn (yes, that explains some of it), she studied performance at SUNY New Paltz where she worked on standardizing her accent. For fun, she can still turn on the Brooklyn!

Cathy is extraordinarily familiar with the voice over world - not only as a trained performer herself, but impressively as a guidance consultant. As a result, she's terrific at helping guide aspiring-talent to successful careers and working-talent to beefier careers as a Career Guidance Specialist with Edge Studio. Every day she helps voice-actors get the most out of their training and start out on the right foot. Why she likes doing this? "Being creative while helping people grow their voiceover business is my favorite part of the job!"

Born and raised near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Kendra Baker is a product of WVU where she majored in Communications. Kendra began her career working for several web-based companies where she gained considerable experience and knowledge about the business world, the internet world and technology... while utilizing her communications skills.

Karen is an Education Consultant, dedicated to assisting students in their training from the very beginning to the end. Whether you are wondering if voice over if for you or if you are trying to figure out your next move within the business, she is here to connect you to the resources to answer your questions and address your needs. Karen was born in Brooklyn and raised out in Florida and is a voice over actor herself.

Originally from Ohio, this corn-fed country girl set her sights on the big city over a decade ago and hasn't looked back. Kristen attended New York University's Tisch School of the Arts before spending eight years managing all aspects of audio and video production at 4Kids Productions including voice directing, producing audio for video games, script writing, and casting for animated series such as the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Chaotic.

When Kristen's not in the recording studio, you'll find her in a studio of another sort, photographing people, products, and places. Kristen loves to sing, drum, dance, is learning the guitar, and heads to the shore as often as possible. She is also an avid recycler, plant wrangler, and coffee fanatic. She lives in NJ with her boyfriend and their pride of cats.

Hailing from the wind-swept plains of Oklahoma, Nathan Andersen attended Yale University where he sang with the Yale Glee Club, the Spizzwinks(?) and the Whiffenpoofs. After graduating with a degree in English Literature, Nate worked as a singing teacher before becoming a full-time web developer. When not making websites do cool things, Nate enjoys playing speed chess, playing the piano, guitar or singing, or hanging with his girlfriend and their three cats.

Originally from Ohio, this corn-fed country girl set her sights on the big city over a decade ago and hasn't looked back. Kristen attended New York University's Tisch School of the Arts before spending eight years managing all aspects of audio and video production at 4Kids Productions including voice directing, producing audio for video games, script writing, and casting for animated series such as the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Chaotic.

When Kristen's not in the recording studio, you'll find her in a studio of another sort, photographing people, products, and places. Kristen loves to sing, drum, dance, is learning the guitar, and heads to the shore as often as possible. She is also an avid recycler, plant wrangler, and coffee fanatic. She lives in NJ with her boyfriend and their pride of cats.

Before 2003, Anne Hartung worked with theatre companies around the world, from Bangkok to Vermont. In 2003, she moved from her then home base of Wisconsin to New York City to attend Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, where she double majored in Theater and Gender Studies. Life in the city agreed with her and after graduating, the city became her real home and Voice Over production became her career focus. Since then, she’s been involved in numerous aspects of the voice over industry, including acting, directing, and production coordination. Before joining the Edge Studio team, she spent three years casting, scheduling, script adaptation, and project coordinating for numerous genres of voice over, including audiobooks, audio tours, commercials, and even cartoons in English, Spanish, French, and Japanese!

When she’s not in the office, Anne can be found playing violin in a Brooklyn based rock band or writing plays, usually in the historical fiction genre.

David Guzzone is one of the few in the voice-over industry who is recognized for working on “both sides of the glass.”

As a voice actor (microphone side of the glass) and on-camera actor, his credits include Honda, Taco Bell, CSI:NY, Volvo, Charmed, Power Bar, General Hospital, McDonalds and, his most challenging role to date, the voice of a heating and air conditioning unit for Philadelphia Electric Company. It was a stretch because David is more readily cast as a refrigerator or toaster.

As a voice-over producer (director’s side of the glass), and working side by side with sound engineers, David has gained vast experience giving him a complete picture of the industry.

And as a voice over casting director (the third side of the glass, otherwise known as the EDGE) for commercial, narration, and video game projects, David has worked with hundreds of talent and is responsible for distinguishing between the rare great audition and the average audition that is most commonly delivered.

Put all this together, and as a coach, he is able to impart these experiences to aspiring voice over artists.

Regarding the personal side of David, he’s a native New Yorker and has worked in the entertainment industry for 15 years in NYC and LA.

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