Edge Studio Production Team

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, his own 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.

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.

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.

Steve began his audio career in public radio, working for jazz station WBGO in Newark, NJ as a DJ and production assistant. After many live broadcasts and overnight air shifts, he moved to Los Angeles and hosted a weekly show on KKJZ in Long Beach. Though the weather was lovely, a return to the east coast was inevitable. In 2004, he began engineering for NPR and the BBC, recording everyone from Morgan Freeman and Pat Metheny to Barbara Walters and Bill Clinton.

Recognized for his quick editing abilities, positive studio attitude, supernatural powers, and amazing ear, Steve began producing commercial and narration voice over for major automotive, pharmaceutical, and financial industry Fortune 500 companies such as Pfizer, Goldman Sachs, KPMG, and many others. Steve has constructed many home studios, on location recording setups, and anything else you could imagine involving the recording and reproduction of sound. He's magical.

When not in the studio, Steve can be found playing drums and guitar with several bands around New York or searching for vintage instruments to add to his illustrious collection.

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.