Instructor Directory

Recognized as one of the world's leading booth-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.

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.

Kristin hit the stage running in her first dance recital at the age of four… then spotted the audience and ran right back off. Much to everyone's surprise, she jumped back on a few years later, and hasn’t left since.

As a voice coach, she loves figuring out how to make you shine, no matter what your background is. Can a musical theater pro accustomed to projecting to the back of a theater successfully “tone it down” enough for voiceover? Can an accountant set his numbers aside and learn to play with words? Do you need to approach scripts as an actor? Do you need a technical checklist? Do you just need permission to let loose and have a ball? What is your comfort zone… and can you surprise yourself by pushing outside of that? Everyone has a different style of learning. The most important thing is to enjoy what you’re doing.

Her philosophy of working with kids is the same. Over five years of teaching youth acting, dance and musical theater classes for The Willows Theater and the Marin Theater Company in the San Francisco Bay Area, she learned that the most important thing is to find the child’s natural strengths and build from there in a positive and encouraging environment.

As a voice actor, Kristin keeps busy recording commercial and narration voiceovers at her home studio and at production facilities around New York City (including Edge Studio!). The occasional on-camera commercial sneaks into the schedule as well. Recent VO work includes narrations for Disney, Crisco, Nikon, GE, Doubletree, Swarovski Crystals, H&R Block, Office Depot, Crest Spinbrush, the U.S. Army, Yale University, and lots of corporate training and e-learning programs; the videogames “Silent Hill: Downpour”, “Puzzle Chronicles” and “Enigmatis”; and commercials for Vitamin Shoppe, Ortega Tacos, Vertex, Alfred Angelo wedding gowns, Hannaford grocery stores, Paradise Bakery, Kaboom! and Peter Piper Pizza.

Most of all, she is proud to have recorded a series of children's audiobooks for MitSo Media which received the highest award possible: a room full of pre-schoolers sat absolutely still and listened!

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Michael has narrated over 500 commercials both on-camera and voice-over.

He was a vocal scholarship undergraduate at Hofstra University and holds a Masters degree in Musical/Liberal Arts.

He teaches voice and voiceover techniques and is currently producing an album of himself singing "Songs to Touch Your Yiddish Soul".

For 2 ½ years he was a member of the original Broadway cast of Jekyll & Hyde. He was featured in Sweet Charity directed by Bob Fosse. As a member of the Robert Shaw Chorale, The Bach Aria Group, and The Camerata Singers, he has recorded under Igor Stravinsky, Leonard Bernstein, and Eugene Ormandy with The New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, and The Detroit Symphony. He toured the United States, Canada, and South America with Robert Shaw, serving as an assistant to Mr. Shaw.

His dramatic roles on television include - The Bronx is Burning, The Sopranos, One Life to Live, Law & Order, L&O Criminal Intent, L&O SVU, 100 Centre St., Sex in the City, and 3rd Watch.

His major films include featured roles in 1st Deadly Sin, Perfect Murder, Trouble with Cali, and You Don't Know Jack with Al Pacino, an HBO movie due for release in April 2010.

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Award winning voice actor Danielle Quisenberry has contributed her talents to radio and television commericals, web and software narrations, corporate campaigns, industrial and documentary films, English as a second language tutorials, and telephone systems. She is an experienced live industrial narrator and works each season at The Brooklyn Academy of Music' Kids Film Festival in live interactive animation. Her client list includes, Aetna Insurance, America Online, Fiat, McAfee, McDonalds, People PC, Timex, Tyco Toys, Mrs. Meyers Clean Day, Oldsmobile, Panasonic and Verizon.

Here at Edge Studio, she is a private instructor, as well as the instructor for Technique 101 workshops, How To Supplement Your Income With VO workshops, and our popular Acting of Voice Acting class. She really enjoys introducing cross over acting techinques to new voice performers and working with trained actors to help them transfer their existing skills to the microphone. Her academic interests include acting methodologies, movement and the physical process of vocal production. She is personally interested in how advances in neuroscience affect teaching and adult learning in the arts.

In addition to being an awesome voice talent and coach Danielle Quisenberry has worked on more than 100 model art projects in cooperation with the New York City Department of Education. She contributed to the core methodology of the renowned Literature to Life Program at the renowned American Place Theatre, where she taught young people, trained public school teachers and teaching artists as well as presented workshops in interdisciplinary arts methodologies nationwide. Currently, on the faculty of Edge Studio, The Actors Studio Drama School and The School at Alvin Ailey, her previous arts in education collaborations include, The American Place Theater , The American Ballroom Theatre, The TADA! Youth Theatre, The Public Theatre, Classic Stage Company and Steps on Broadway. In addition, she has been a regular guest artist at LaGuardia High School for Music, Arts and the Performing Arts, often known as the Fame school.

She holds a degree in acting performance from The University of Michigan and a certificate in Radio and Television Production and Performance from Specs Howard School of Broadcast Arts. Her faculty positions now include, The Actors Studio MFA program at Pace University, The School at Alvin Ailey and The New York Film Academy.

When out of the booth, she is still in the studio ... the dance studio that is -- teaching and performing as an International Standard Ballroom Dancer. This year, she will combine her favorite art forms by joining the team which does the live announcing for The Manhattan Amateur Classic, a top NYC DanceSport Competition.

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Linda Jones plays with her words—and will get you playing too! A mimic from a long line of mimics, she started doing 'voices' at the dinner table in childhood, and hasn't been quiet since. With an impressive voice over client list that includes Clairol, American Express, Hewlett Packard and Dow Chemical, she brings her students real-world experience in commercial work, corporate narration, documentary, education, telephony and audio books.

With over 20 years of coaching experience, Linda takes great joy in helping her students cut loose - learning to find not only their own relaxed, authentic voice, but also building on that to discover and expand their natural range and variety. She focuses on strength, precision, ease, and flexibility, allowing her students a base from which to vocally fly. And that feeds her more technical work with vocal production, diction and articulation, accent acquisition and reduction. An award-winning actor in her own right, she also homes in on interpretive techniques, helping her students find their way into a text to deliver excellent interpretive reads with superior technical skill.

Born and bred Concord, Massachusetts (she learned to swim in Walden Pond!), she has coached and performed across the country, from Chicago to San Francisco to New York City. She holds a BFA in Acting from Ithaca College, has run three NYC Marathons (more to come!).

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As a voice coach, you will never hear me say the words “you’re not getting it”. I consider it my mission to try different approaches, techniques, and exercises until something clicks. My coaching style involves a lot of dialogue between teacher and student, and I like to use my sense of humor to keep things light and fun, even as I challenge you to go further than you thought possible.

When it comes to animation, cartoons, children's e-learning, and video games, I am very grateful to have had experience on both sides of the window. On the production side, I served as voice director and talent supervisor for the Emmy Award-winning PBS cartoon, "WordWorld". I’ve also voice directed various games and toys for The Backyardigans, Go, Diego, Go!, Dora the Explorer, as well as numerous children’s audio books for Scholastic. As Head of the VO Department at Animation Collective, I oversaw the records and casting of nine shows produced for Nickelodeon, Nicktoons, Cartoon Network, and AOL kids. My TV production career started on the show "Blue's Clues", where I won my very first VO role—that of a talking mailbox!

As talent, I have narrated projects for Blackberry, Cincinnati Bell, Harrah’s, Hilton, Taximagic, Petflow, WatchDox, Twilio, Green Nissan, Slendertone and Howcast.com among others. For more than three years, I have been the main voice of the award-winning Kognito Interactive, which creates web-based e-learning simulations for various clients including Starwood Hotels, Rutgers, CUNY, Baruch, Fuji Film and the Veteran’s Association of NY/NJ.

I graduated from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts with a BFA in Drama, and also trained in improv through Second City. As a live performer, I have four years of stand-up, and eight years of sketch comedy under my belt. I moved to the City of Angels in 2010, and have had a great time heading up Edge Studio’s LA studio!

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Jay Snyder is a classically trained actor who has performed leading roles on and off Broadway, television, and film. His expertise is bringing characters to life. For more than 10 years he has also done nearly every type of voice over work, including commercials (recent clients include Verizon, Coke, Six Flags, Cisco, and Absolut), audio books, documentaries, tours, industrials, video games, animated films and cartoons. Since he is happiest diving into characters and stories, it's no surprise that so much of his work has been in animation and audiobooks. Best known as the voice for the two lead characters of Yu-Gi-Oh!, and central characters in Pokemon, Sonic X, Kirby, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, G.I. Joe, Chaotic, and Huntik, Jay feels fortunate to have worked on well over 100 different movies and series and literally thousands of episodes and hours of entertainment. As a self professed geek, he's also psyched to have worked on the current Batman: the Dark Knight Rises video game as well as the critically acclaimed All Saints Row 2.

Even though not a week goes by without doing something in animation, as an actor his focus has shifted to audiobooks in the last few years. In that time he's performed on over a hundred titles in various genres. Some of his favorites include Kurt Vonnegut's wry Sci-Fi "The Sirens of Titan", "Zoo" and "NYPD Red" two new titles from the prolific New York Times best selling regular James Patterson, and the CIA action/intrigue "The Gray Man" series which is currently in development for a film franchise starring Brad Pitt.

He has also directed VO for years, on many anime series, audio books, and video games. More recently he has become an Audio Producer, working for Marvel on their Marvel Knights Animation line. His first project for them was the “Astonishing X-Men”, a series written by Joss Whedon who also made the record breaking blockbuster film "The Avengers". Next was “Iron Man: Extremis", a story which has been confirmed as the basis of the next Iron Man film. After that came the best reviewed series from Marvel Knights, "Thor vs. Loki: Blood Brothers". But perhaps more relevantly, Jay also audio produced an educational series for Disney/ABC News about World War 2 called “They Spoke Out." Working with comic book legend Neal Adams, Jay helped to tell the tales you never knew about an era you thought you had learned everything about. As Audio Producer, he’s responsible for casting, directing, sound design, scoring, and the final mix. He does the casting and directing personally, and works side by side with a wonderful team of talented professionals who always do an outstanding job, providing clients with the best results.

Jay has also written for hundreds of shows, and is currently developing various animated series and films from adaptations to original concepts. Storytelling is his passion, and he loves every element of it, not just being the performer. Jay's perspective is unique because he has experience with all aspects of capturing a performance. From the acting, to directing, casting, writing, and even the recording of a character.

So why does he teach if he's so busy? Jay comes from a family of educators and says that teaching at Edge is wonderful because he genuinely enjoys providing people with whatever benefit his experience has to offer and he always learns something new from everyone he works with.

Carol is a two-time Audie Award-winning audiobook narrator. She has read for Recorded Books, Harper Audio, Audible.Com, Hachette, HighBridge, Clipper Audio, Edge Studio, Books on Tape, and Redwood Audio's listentogenius.com. She has been a featured narrator in Audiofile magazine, Voiceover Xtra, and the Recorded Books Catalog.

In addition to several documentary voice-overs, Carol has been "the voice" of the Turner Classic Movies Film Festival since 2010 and has narrated tributes to such luminaries as Jean Paul Belmondo, the Houstons, Luise Rainer, and Eli Wallach.

Her commercial voice over clients have included HSBC, USDA, AFL-CIO, Bell Atlantic, McDonald's, and 10 promos on TCM.

When you work with Carol, you will be heard. She loves the spoken word and loves to listen. This is largely why she began teaching voice over more than 20 years ago. In addition to Edge Studio, she teaches narration and commercial voice over at NYU's Digital Design and Film School and has taught Voice and Speech III at NYU’s Tisch School for the Arts. She also taught voice, acting, and/or playwriting at Theatre Lab School of the Dramatic Arts, Roundhouse Theatre, Capitol Hill Arts Workshop, Bethesda Arts Center, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, and Belvoir Terrace. Carol also has worked as a theatre director and voice and acting teacher at New York City’s Professional Performing Arts School.

In coaching at Edge Studio, Carol focuses on what students brings to the world of voice over and how to expand and enrich their vocal delivery. She explores the nuances of interpretation and technique as well as text analysis. She strives to cultivate and activate the vitality of effective speech.

Greg is an award winning sound designer, editor, and mixer, and has been working in TV and Film for over 10 years. His work can be heard in numerous feature films, shorts, documentaries, anime and animated productions, TV shows, and commercials.

Some noted projects include the animated feature "Sita Sings the Blues" by Nina Paley, the cartoon series "Super Normal" by World Leaders Entertainment, the feature film "Lucky Life" by Lee Isaac Chung, "Idiots & Angels" by Bill Plympton, and the stop motion short "Hose" by Kevin Watkins. His commercial work includes projects for Unisom, TLC, MTV2, Comcast, Wella Hair Color, Clairol Professional, Cheerios, Armstrong Flooring, Martha Stewart Collection, and much more.

Early in his career, he spent countless hours engineering and mixing Voice-Overs for educational and commercial projects at Fullhouse Productions in NYC. Today, he maintains a diverse clientele, and provides a wide array of audio services. One day you might see him in the studio surround mixing an anime series for DVD, and the next, recording dialog on location for a feature film.

Experience:

Executive Director

Sotheby's Institute of Art, Director - San Diego Museum of Art, Director - Pageant of the Masters - Laguna Beach, Ca., Director of Media - United Exhibits Group, Denmark, Consultant - Jim Henson Company, Consultant - National Center for Children and Creativity, Washington, DC, Director of Education - Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, National Education Committee - American Association of Museums, President - California Association of Museums

Audio Tour Narration, Script Production, and selected Orientation Video Production:

Audio Tour Narration, Script Production and selected Orientation Video Production: Star Wars: The Magic of Myth, The Art of the Muppets, Dr. Seuss from Then to Now, The Gold of Peru, Between Continents, Between Seas: Pre-Columbian Art of Costa Rica, The Precious Legacy: Judaic Treasures from the Czechoslovak State Collections, Siqueiros, Dutch and Flemish Masters: Paintings from the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts, American Masters: The Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, Ansel Adams: Classic Images, Chinese Export Silver: A Legacy of Luxury, Photographers of the Weimar Republic, Songs of My People: African American Photographers, Oskar Schlemmer, Perspectives: Angles on African Art, Black Sun: The Eyes of Four - Contemporary Japanese Photography, American Women Artists: 1830-1930, Toulouse-Lautrec: The Baldwin M. Baldwin Collection, The Painter Joaquin Sorolla, California Sculpture, Cecil Beaton: A Retrospective, Frank Lloyd Wright: In the Realm of Ideas, Faberge Imperial Eggs: From the Forbes Collection and the Kremlin Museums, Gold of Greece: Jewelry and Ornaments from the Benaki Museum, Latin American Drawings Today, California Cityscapes, Pacific Parallels: Artists and the Landscape in New Zealand, 1840-1990, The Great Age of Sail: Treasures of the National Maritime Museum, London, The William S. Paley Collection, Helen Frankenthaler, Gold and Grandeur: The Age of the Baroque in Portugal, Egon Schiele, Gauguin and the School of Pont Aven, Discovering Ellis Ruley, Andrew Wyeth - The Helga Paintings, Monet from the Collection of the Marmottan Museum, Achilles Rizzoli: Heavenly Hallucinations, Lost Treasures of the Romanovs from the Kremlin Museums, George Bellows, Ringing Thunder: Tomb Treasures of Ancient China, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Norman Rockwell: Pictures for the American People

I love what I do.. Even if I'm down or stressed - when I'm in the voice-over booth, everything is right somehow. And I love helping people reach their goals of becoming voice over talent because I understand the desire to do something you love for a living!

Born in Colombia, South America, I came to the U.S. at a very young age. I spent my formative years moving every year and have lived everywhere from New York City to Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Shaped by my ever-changing environment, I bring a unique perspective to the art and business of voice-over.

One day, a CBS producer asked me to record a voice-over scratch track, and I fell in love… with Voice Over! I began training and learning as much as I could about this field. Moving to Washington D.C. in 2000, I focused on audio post-production and was responsible for, among other things, hiring and producing voice over talent. Soon after, I began being the voice over talent. It was then that I formed a relationship with Edge Studio.

I have narrated thousands of hours of narration over the years and have had the pleasure of recording in almost every studio in Washington, DC as well as a few in New York City. The majority of my voice over work is done from my home studio. My voice can be heard on television, internet, radio, in museums, movie theaters, e-learning modules for children, training modules for corporations and in hospital lobbies.

Here are some of my favorite projects:


• Narration for two nationally syndicated television series.
• Narration for programs aired on the Discovery Channel, National Geographic, the History Channel, PBS and a seven-part series for the We Network.
• Being paired with Sigourney Weaver’s voice for the Planet Earth Press Kit.
• Being paired with Harrison Ford for the Ocean Health Index Series Promos.
• Museum Installation narration for the Louisville Science Center. The educational series “Geography for Students” for Schlessinger Media. "Bees Buzz and Lions Roar", A children’s DVD in English and Spanish, and countless children’s computer-based/e-learning lessons for K12.
• E-Learning for Harley Davidson, Boeing, NIKE and Verizon.
• Internet and Website narration for Huggies and PSAs for the Red Cross and DHS/FEMA, among others.
• Live Announcement / VOG for Smithsonian’s Hispanic Heritage Month Gala and the 10th Anniversary of their Latino Center.
• National and local commercials for PBS, FILA, Comcast SportsNet, Charter Communications, Let's Dish! and Bowl America.
• Animated characters for Fallout3, K12 Children’s Educational series and the voice characterization of Daisy Suckley in a History Channel biography of FDR.

I am an active member of several organizations including Women in Film and Video (WIFV) and TIVA-DC.

I understand deeply not only what it takes to be a voice over talent - but the inner workings of the business of voice over as well. I know that no two performers -- and no two clients -- are alike. In voice-over class I encourage students to learn from a variety of coaches and life experiences, depending on your individual aptitudes and needs.

Randye Kaye began her voice-over career as a way to keep acting while pregnant with her first child - and has been working behind the microphone ever since. Her credits include commercials - Kyocera printers, Betteridge Jewelers, Big Lots, Dove - Narrations - Continental Airlines, Medicare, Burger King, MISTO, Verizon - audiobooks, phone systems - Priceline.com, Executone, Elizabeth Arden - websites, video games, medical narrations - CVS, , Medicare, fibromyalgia management - and live announce events - Effie Awards, Echo Awards.

Randye has also voiced many medical scripts, websites and telephony for major clients including hospitals (St, Raphael's in New Haven, Tanner Health systems in Atlanta), pharmaceuticals (Seroquel, Savella), patient care (The Newborn Channel, CVS, caremark.com, Medicare, fibromyalgia management) and e-learning sites (migraine prophylaxis, NAMI).

She has also worked as a radio morning personality, and has acted on stage, in improv groups, and in TV/film. And – oh, yeah – she also writes. Her book and audiobook (guess who narrated?), Ben Behind His Voices, were published this fall.
She lives with her husband in Trumbull, CT where her son, daughter and son-in-law visit often to raid the fridge and use the washer and dryer.

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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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The H is silent, but I’m not!

I’ve been a voice talent for over fifteen years and I love what I do. Narrating audiobooks about 30 Rock, Battlestar Galactica, and Glenn Beck have been quite the adventure. Lending my voice to video games like Red Dead Redemption was a thrill. Voicing hundreds of e-learning projects for students all over the world learning English as a second language has certainly been fulfilling. Now I welcome this opportunity to truly give back to the voiceover community by sharing my experiences & insights with aspiring talent as an Edge Studio coach!

When I’m not talking (or talking about talking), I occasionally act, direct, and I’m currently writing & co-producing a comic book. I also write the Good Karma Network, a voiceover blog.

A go-getter, Deb thought she was a natural at everything she took on, but when she entered the world of Freelance Voicing she discovered there was much more to learn, so she swallowed her ego and set out to work with some of the top coaches in Voice and Film today.

Having to break her broadcast and theatre habits Deb soon discovered that with her training and previous experience as a casting director, she wasn't afraid to tell actors exactly what they needed to do to succeed. At first she volunteered, wanting to help whoever would listen and because of her candid honesty, combination of training in theatre, broadcasting and film, and her first hand experience in the craft, Deb became a popular choice and coaching took on a life of it's own.

Now working as a Voice Coach for over 10 years, Deb Munro is a well respected name in the Voice industry. One of the top coaches and talents in Canada, she is able to offer a unique training experience to all that want to learn from her honest critiquing. Deb gets right to the point and skips the sugar coating.

Deb believes that continuous training has been the key to her success and to this day she continues to work with coaches and mentors to stay on top of her game, stay current with today’s trends and to keep her skills at their best. She is a full time voice talent, who finds time to share her experience with others.

Deb has been a Voice Talent for over 17 years working with success stories such as; the voice of “Barbie”, “CarFox”, “Knowledge Network”, “Monster Trucks”, “My Little Pony”, “Mr. Young” and so much more.

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I'm passionate about voice acting and singing! In the voice-over realm, my expertise is in delivering flawless, unaccented and evocative English and Spanish reads rooted in my bicultural upbringing. I also do Hispanic-accented English reads upon request. Since 1994 I have voiced many narrations, commercials, children’s audio books, PSA’s and podcasts, particularly in the health and educational arenas. Producers who reach out to the booming Hispanic market often ask me to voice their messages.

I am a full-time native Spanish/English voice-over actor originally from Puerto Rico. My parents, (both professional performers in film, stage and radio), raised me bilingually, emphasizing the importance of complete oral and written fluency in both in English and Spanish, and of being able to speak (and sing) expressively in both languages. Little wonder that I ended up in the arts and media production as a singer and voice actor or that I have the good fortune of being able to use my voice and acting skills as a bilingual voice-over talent for my company, Amador Bilingual Voice-Overs. As a professional Latin singer and touring recording artist with my band, Sol y Canto, I’m able to use my singing voice professionally as well. After going to school in San Juan, Puerto Rico I graduated from Bryn Mawr College, and like my parents, I became an entrepreneur at a young age. At 22, I was managing and booking a touring theater/puppet company, which then led to founding my own Latin Music booking agency, MusicAmador, which brought outstanding cultural music and dance acts from Latin America to performing arts centers in the U.S. until 2007.

I enjoy forging my own path and have been fortunate to find a partner in my husband, bilingual voice-over actor and musician Brian Amador, to share this path with me. We work at our private home studio where we fulfill our clients' voiceover requests and Brian composes original music. With our background as professional Latin musicians since 1984, Brian and I can easily add outstanding music to any project. We have had Billboard-charting albums and won three awards as "Best Latin Act" in the Boston Music Awards.

My clients include: PBS, National Geographic, U. S. Department of Health and Human Services, Houghton Mifflin, Smithsonian institute, LifeSpan Hospital, NYSE Health Portal, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum, Nuance Communications, Comcast, Dr. Dental, RealNetworks and the Massachusetts Department of Public Health.

I live in Cambridge, MA with my husband and our bilingual teenage twin daughters, who seem to have inherited the creative gene, as they have shared the stage with us since the age of four, and more recently began narrating bilingual children's audio books and documentaries in 2011!

Click to hear Rosi's Commercial Demo (English)

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Born in Stamford, Connecticut and one of three brothers, Robert graduated in 1988 from the University of Connecticut with a Bachelor of Arts degree. Robert then graduated cum laude from Pace University School of Law in 1991. He is currently an accomplished actor, voice over artist and practicing attorney who has been chosen by Connecticut magazine as a New England Region and Connecticut “Super Lawyer” for the years 2009 through 2012. Robert hosted a local radio program back in the mid 1990's called "The Law Show", and more recently, hosted a radio show called "Ask the Lawyer" on WICC in Bridgeport.

Robert has appeared on National Television numerous times including leading roles as Czar Nicholas II on the History Channel’s “Engineering an Empire: Russia”, “Al Capone” in History Channel’s “MysteryQuest”, 2 episodes of Discovery Channel’s “Most Evil” (Manson and Gangs), a recurring role on A&E’s “Watching the Detectives”, an episode of "Rescue Me", “Maury Povich” and twice in “30 Rock”, an episode of Explorer on the National Geographic Channel where he plays Iran-Contra scandal hostage Tom Sutherland, and most recently on the new ABC series Pan Am.

Besides television, he has done numerous film projects in leading or supporting roles, including a film called "The Maltese Murder Mystery" where he played the supporting role of "Tony Figlia", “A Fine Layer of Darkness” which premiered at the HFC Film Festival, where he played the lead role of “Samuel Halford”, independent films called “E:8 Think Tank” and ATT’s “The Hacking Chronicles” where he played the “Lawyer”, “Mind Morgue” and “Demon of Lataran” produced by Legion Films, and a short film called “Il Portiere (The Janitor)” which won the San Marcos Film Festival, where he played the lead role of “The Janitor.” Most recently he performed in a leading role on the films “Home/Sick”, “Destroy” and “Noir Bar”. He has also worked on big name films like “Music and Lyrics”, “Enchanted”, “American Gangster”, “Julie and Julia”, Oscar winning “Man on Wire“ and “Life Before Her Eyes”.

Robert has also appeared, or done voice over work, for countless commercials and industrial films. Robert is a member of AFTRA and accredited by SAVOA, (Society of Accredited Voice Over Artists), and serves on the SaVoa Advisory Board. He also had the honor of writing a chapter in the current Fourth Edition of the book, The Art of Voice Acting, written by James Alburger, which is considered by many to be the bible of the voice over industry. He has also written an ebook about Voice Overs and the Law scheduled to be released in 2012.

Voice-Over professional Paul Strikwerda started his career at the age of 17 when he was hand-picked to produce and present youth radio programs for Dutch Public Radio. After a career in international broadcast journalism (BBC, Radio Netherlands), he became a sought-after media coach.

In 1999, Strikwerda moved to the United States and founded Nethervoice, providing voice-over services in Dutch, German and English. His Double Dutch blog deals with issues facing all freelancers, and was voted most influential voice-over blog in 2011.

In his studio in Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley, Paul records audio books, videos, virtual tours, commercials and documentaries for clients on all continents.

Dave Courvoisier is a voice actor, blogger, TV news anchor, renaissance man, perspicacious, itinerant prospector of social media, father and husband.

For the last 30 years, Dave has risen in the ranks of local TV, earning Emmy’s for various aspects of reporting, producing, and anchoring. He currently anchors the 5, 6, and 11 o’clock weekday newscasts at the CBS affiliate in Las Vegas, NV: KLAS-TV. Dave is a graduate of the prestigious Poynter Institute’s curriculum on “Digital Media Strategies for Today’s Newsroom Managers.”

For the better part of the last 10 years Dave has also applied himself to the challenges of a career in voice acting. Early on, Dave chose Social Networks as his primary means of marketing his VO business. That commitment has also led to a new career vector helping others lean the ins and outs of New Media.

Dave was a keynote speaker at VOICE2010 on “Making Social Media Work for your VO Business; and is scheduled again in 2012 to speak on “Social Media Secrets”. Dave has also led similar discussions at VO’s “unconference” – FaffCon -- in 2010 and 2011. In addition, Dave has held numerous webinars and teleconferences on the subject of Social Media on VoiceOverXtra, The Voice Acting Academy, and the VoiceOverDirectory.

Dave was recently named the most influential VO blogger of 2011, and is the webauthor of SocialMediaVO.com, and VOAToday.com, as well as the administrator for numerous LinkedIn, FaceBook, and Twitter groups aggregating voice actors into online communities.

Dave is also the marketing director for CommercialVoices.com, and E-Learningvoices.com, and serves on the advisory board of SaVoa (Society of Accredited Voice Over Artists).

Elena Berger — former Voice-Over agent at ICM, current instructor at Juilliard & NYU-Tisch of the “Business of Acting,” Voice-Over, and On-Camera Commercial technique — has just about seen and heard it all. There’s almost no aspect of the business side of the Industry with which she doesn’t have some experience. Acting, she says, is best left to others, thank God. She’s held positions in theatrical representation (including Tony Award-winners), personal management (including Academy Award-winners), casting (HBO, FOX, Comedy Central, and independent film), and production (independent film). Currently, she is a partner at JLC Entertainment Group, managing a select group of clients in all aspects of their careers. She also runs a successful actors’ career consulting business.

Since 2002, Elena’s instructed at The Juilliard School and CAP21, and has offered her workshop at NYU’s StoneStreet Studios, One-On-One Productions, Camp Broadway and SUNY-Purchase. She has also been an invited lecturer at Backstage’s annual ActorFest.

Elena lives in Brooklyn with her husband, writer Peter Charles Melman, and their sons, Charlie and Hank.

Bettye Zoller began her career at Metro Goldwyn Mayer studios (MGM) in Hollywood at age five as a contract player. That was more than 50 years ago! She attended school with major stars on the legendary MGM movie lot in the “little red schoolhouse.” After six years there, during which time she appeared in several films. Her training continued through post graduate degrees in universities. She has served on faculties at leading universities and continues to accept guest professor appointments for workshops. “But my MGM training in the old Hollywood “star” system gave me my foundation!”

She is a studio singer, a former RCA recording artst, has appeared on Broadway. and was a cabaret headliner nationwide. In addition to voice overs and acting coaching, she maintains a singer’s training studio in Dallas.

She coaches voice speech improvement, accent dialect minimization. She is a voice coach to three television networks and a role (dialogue coach) for TV, film and theatre. As a voice coach, she has trained CEOs, Politicians, Celebrities!

Some of Ms. Zoller’s voiceovers include commercials for the “Days of our Lives,” the David Letterman Show, Southwest Airlines, the Jay Leno Show, MasterCard, Seven Seas Dressings, Pace Picante Sauce, Chiffon Margarine, Seven Eleven Stores, J.C. Penney, Avon, Cellular One, American Airlines, and promos for ABC, BBC, CBS, and PBS. Her voice is heard on The Weather Channel, Lifetime TV, Bravo Channel, and PBS. She also specializes in ADR (audio replacement| for films.

She is the voice of many toys and children’s products. She narrates videos in the Holocaust Museum and Ellis Island Museum, the Smithsonian Museum. She has voiced video games. She is a Simon and Schuster audio book author, narrator, and producer. She presents seminars nationwide by invitation.

Her audio books and books for actors and voice talents are sold worldwide. She is a Simon and Schuster author who also is an expert in the self-publishing field and advises authors. She is legendary for her creation of audio book narration demos.

“I have trained so many actors and singers who now have had major careers. It’s my proudest achievement.”

Click to hear Bettye 's Commercial Demo

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Dan lives in the beautiful mountains of Asheville, NC and is a husband and father of two boys. He attended five universities and had three majors before being introduced to audio engineering in 1994. Realizing his career dream, he ended his educational journey at The Recording Workshop in Chillicothe, Ohio finishing among the top 5 in his class.

After years in recording studios and in radio he began work at ProComm Voices in 2001,where he continues to work as an engineer, producer and voiceover talent. With over 10 years at ProComm Voices, he has produced, directed or provided his voice to thousands of audio productions.

In 2010 he published SOUND ADVICE- Voiceover From An Audio Engineer's Perspective. A first of its kind in the industry, the book covers audio engineering and studio session etiquette as it relates directly to voiceover talent. He continues to write a
popular blog at his website: SOUND4VO.com. His ability to simplify often complex recording and audio concepts is unmatched in the voiceover industry.

In 2011, Dan began working with Edge Studio, providing editing, recording, and home studio classes as well as consultations to help new voice talent along with established professionals improve their business. He is highly regarded in the voice over community and his vast knowledge continues to educate our Edge Studio students every day.

He has been a featured guest on webinars for Voice Artists United with Chris Kendall, The Voice Over Club with Terry Daniel, Voice Over Training.org with Bill DeWees and East West Audio Body Shop (EWABS) with George Whittam and Dan Lenard. He has also lead several sessions at Faffcon 2 and Faffcon 3.

Dan Friedman is an accomplished engineer, producer, director and author. He is also a successful voiceover talent and has been heard on hundreds of local and regional television and radio campaigns as well as many corporate narrations. His list of clients, credits and commercial campaigns continues to grow. He is currently the national voice for Moe's Southwest Grill, Crowne Plaza Hotels and The RKS Kettle Bell exercise program.

Click to hear Dan's Announcer Demo

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Click to hear Dan's Conversational Demo

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Lesley Bailey is an award-winning Casting Director, Voice Over Coach, Demo Producer, and Consultant. She spent the last fifteen years as the head of Casting at a major production company in NYC as well as coaching and producing demos. She has consulted at a major ad agency and has also done freelance vo and on-camera casting at some of the top casting companies in the nation. Lesley has been a guest teacher at many events and educational institutions including MindGlo, Backstage, and the Learning Annex.

She has also taught classes at the Oregon Children's Theatre and recently judged the Oregon Thespian's Competition.
Among the thousands of spots she has cast are AT&T, Pepsi, Mercedes, Heineken, Doritos, and Poland Springs. She includes among her many high-level clients BBDO, Ogilvy and Mather, Wieden and Kennedy, Publicis, and Saatchi & Saatchi.

Lesley brings out absolute magic in people, teaching them to express themselves naturally and honestly while fostering a safe and relaxed atmosphere. Her style focuses on script-analysis and those little "tricks" of the trade that she has gathered up over almost two decades of working with the best producers, directors, writers, agents, and actors in the business. Lesley loves nurturing voice over stars all across the universe and is delighted that her students get the results they want in their careers.

Carolee has earned a living singing and speaking for over 30 years! She has been called “the girl Robin Williams” because of her versatility and humor. She has recorded Jingles, Records, Song Parodies, Industrial Shows, Children’s Books, Anime, Audiobooks, Toys, Video Games, Workout Tapes, TV Themes, Cruise Ships, Theme Parks, Musicals and anything else one can sing or speak on!

Some of her clients include: Cheerios, IBM, Cingular, Dentyne, Verizon, Jello, Downy, American Express, Merill Lynch, Napier and many more.

She has sung with Carly Simon, Larry Gatlin, Rosie O’ Donnell, The Chieftains, Keely Smith and more. She has also written, performed, musically directed, and directed many corporate shows. Her anime credits include: Runner Kuromi, Photon: The Idiot Adventures, and RG Veda.

Scott Burns, has been a professional voice and on-camera talent for nearly 30 years. As a member of SAG and AFTRA, Scott's credits include national commercials for Microsoft as well as countless regional and local television/radio spots for Car Toys, Muckleshoot Bingo and promotional tour for the crew of Discovery Channel's, "The Deadliest Catch." Scott's character voices and impersonations of Tom Brokaw, Barney Fife (plus many more) have been utilized by morning show radio personalities across the USA and Canada. Gamers would be familiar with Burns lead and principal roles in Tera, Halo, The Operative: No One Lives Forever and Tron 2.0 as well as earlier releases of Humongous' "Putt-Putt" games. Most notably he's the voice of Bowser, Super Mario's arch nemesis for Nintendo. Scott has also performed many narration reads for web and corporate sales ranging from Mobile Security for IBM Cloud to proper phone etiquette for Les Schwab tires.

As Audio Production Manager for Destination Marketing, a full service advertising and marketing agency in the Pacific Northwest, Scott Burns casts, directs and produces radio commercials for Car Toys, Sleep Country Canada, Sono Bello, Super Supplements, Infinity of Scottsdale and Kenmore Air…just to name a few.

Winner of 5 Puget Sound Broadcasters “Soundies” awards for his voice talent and production, Burns enjoys applying meticulous attention to detail in every spot he creates. This especially holds true for the demo’s he produces for others. Fortunately he comes equipped with not only bells…but a slide whistle too.

Married with two children, Burns also shares his time producing audio and video demo reels for actors.

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Click to hear Scott's Character Demo

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Mara first discovered her love of voice-over at the age of 4, narrating stories with her father on a home tape recorder. Her first professional venture into voice-over began with a telephony project in 1997 when a friend requested her as the voice of his company’s phone system. By 2003, she was speaking for a living full-time as an on-air midday radio personality for KCIL in the Greater New Orleans area, which was so successful, she was soon promoted to two additional daily on-air positions as a morning show personality on KXOR & an afternoon drive shift on KMYO within the first year.

In late 2008 after Hurricane Gustav, Mara began extensively training and pursuing voice-over as a full-time career. Soon thereafter she received her accreditation by the Society of Accredited Voice-Over Artists (SaVoa). Within only a year (and without an agent), Mara became the voice of national commercials & infomercials for Oreck, and by 2010 landed positions as the primary telephony voice for AT&T and The Picture People. She has since been voicing massive telephony projects for AT&T such as Nationwide Directory Assistance & expanded text-to-speech applications, projects for other Fortune 500 corporations such as HCA, Inc., and is the station announcer for WGNO-TV ABC 26 & WNOL-TV CW 38 (Tribune Broadcasting) in New Orleans.

Past clients include: Nintendo, USPS, The World Bank, Associated Grocers, Public Storage, Bank of America, Sygic GPS, WagerWorks/International Game Technology, Microsoft, Treasure Chest Casino, Sunwing Vacations, and more.

Mara currently shares most of her time working as a full-time voice talent and part-time VO coach, radio personality & television station announcer between her home studio in the Greater New Orleans area and temporary home in Greater New York.

Click to hear Mara's Telephony Demo

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Rob got the voice over bug by watching! As a college intern in the on air promo booth at CBS Television City in Los Angeles, Rob got to watch the best of the best cut promos for network TV...after a couple days of seeing what they were doing he said, "That's for me!" Since then Rob has been working nationally and locally as an award winning VO talent .

He has been the marketing voice for the New England Patriots for 15 years, same for NHL Radio and NHL.com., He's done extensive work as a television booth announcer and can be heard on radio and television commercials, trailers and station imaging all over the world. Lately he can be heard on Trinidad-Tobago radio! Rob has also taught voice over performance and audio production in the Boston area at Northeastern University and Emerson College. He also produces the nation's number 1 radio food show every Saturday afternoon.

Rob's favorite voice jobs are as the announcer for a ride at Universal Islands of Adventure in Florida and as the host for the Superbowl send off for the NE Patriots.

Johnny Heller is praised for his adult, personal development, history, comedy and children's book narrations.

He is a 2008, 2009, and 2011 "Best Audio Book" winner, a 2008 and 2009 "Publishers Weekly Listen Up Award" winner, a 2005 and 2009 "Audie Award" winner, a double Audie nominee in 2012, selected as one of the Top 50 Narrators of the 20th Century by AudioFile Magazine, and a multiple "Golden Earphone Award" winner.

A cum laude honors graduate of Loyola University of Chicago, Johnny worked as a reporter for the Chicago SunTimes before pursuing a career in acting. Heller studied theater in Chicago, New York and Los Angeles and appeared for a number of years in the long running hit Shear Madness. He also worked at the Northlight Repertory and the Goodman Theater.

Heller’s plays have been performed in New York and Chicago theaters and he is currently writing a book for young adults. After studying comedy improvisation and performing in a traveling company, Heller found success as a stand up comic working at clubs across the country. He still does stand up on occasion but his major focus continues to be in the world of voice-over and narration.

Heller’s distinctive voice has always kept him in demand in the commercial voice over industry and audio book narration. He has recorded nearly 400 titles touching on almost every genre.

The Library Journal says Heller has “the voice of a master storyteller.” AudioFile Magazine calls him "the best narrator for children's books around”. His narration skills led the School Library Journal to say, "Listening to Heller is so much fun it's difficult to imagine simply reading the book.” And AudioFile says “Heller makes nonfiction as thrilling as any action-adventure.”

Always balancing his attention to detail with his sense of humor, Scott's skill set has evolved from his combined work as a professional musician and composer, audio engineer, educator, creative producer / director, and small business owner. To put all of that into perspective; he got his first multi-track recorder at age 13, began teaching music at 15, and was engineering and producing music and voice over projects in a pro studio at 19. In his 20's, Scott's time as a bandleader, co-host of a local television program, and ongoing work as an educator (doing lessons, workshops, and consulting for both music and recording technology) all honed his speaking and presentation skills, preparing him for what would come next: voice over.

In 2007, Scott began connecting with a number of radio, television, and advertising organizations, and was quickly receiving praise for his efficiency in producing, performing, and engineering commercials, short programming narration, jingles, and eventually audio books. His reputation earned him the opportunities to work on projects for Cisco Systems, the Department of Labor, California Tortilla, KidSave, Inspiration Productions LLC (audio books), Matthew Berry for Congress, and more. His work frequently airs on Washington DC radio stations like WMAL, WTOP, and WRQX.

Whether he's coaching voice over, teaching music, or showing aspiring engineers their way around a studio, Scott's approach to education is simple: make it fun, make it connect, and then make it natural. In doing so, he likes to identify the unique positives in a person, and then help them accentuate those things in their art. He believes that a strong bond between "being yourself" and "performing your craft" is key. These are the philosophies that have positioned him as a renowned jazz and world-music bassist, an award-winning engineer / producer, a highly-sought consultant and teacher, and a respected voice over coach and director.

Lara Marie Hirner has unique skills that help voice-actors please more casting agents, impress more engineers, and book more jobs -- especially long-form narration -- by reducing abusive behaviors and techniques that contribute to vocal fatigue and throat discomfort, training proper coordination of breathing and speaking, decreasing mouth clicks and pops (which save editing time), and maintaining a healthier voice for a more lucrative and sustainable career.

There are definitely compromises voice actors are asked to make - long sessions that are demanding on the voice, certain affects (breathy, gritty, raspy...) that can, long term, damage your voice. Lara helps new and pro voice actors stay in business for longer and/or handle more work per day, by balancing good vocal health with the specific demands of voice over clients.

How? Combining her degrees as a Speech Language Pathologist, her experience as a professional voice actor (credits below), and her breathing techniques as a performance singer (credits below), she is happy to share her experience in the fields of performance, vocal pedagogy and therapeutic treatment with the Edge family to help foster a better understanding of the voice and how to best care for it when your career depends on it!

Lara is currently maintaining practice in Boston, MA. She graduated from Harvard University in June of 2005 with a Bachelor of Arts in Music and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies as a participant in the Music Department’s Five Year Performance Program for voice. Theater credits include Mabel in Pirates of Penzance, Rapunzel in Into the Woods, the title role in Rossini’s La Cenerentola, and Cunegonde in Candide.

In concert work, she performs as a frequent soloist with the Mark Morris Dance Group, the New York City Ballet, the Juilliard Choral Union at Lincoln Center, the New York Pops Orchestra at Carnegie Hall and was featured at the Bernstein Festival Gala Concert at Sanders Theater. She was a 4 year member of the Marble Collegiate Sanctuary choir and continues to perform with her vocal jazz quintet, West Side 5. In workshops, masterclasses, and concert performances, Lara has worked with Jason Robert Brown, Steven Schwartz, Mandy Patinkin, Joel Cohen and the Boston Camerata, Christopher Hogwood, Robert Levin, and Judith Clurman.

In addition to her singing career, Lara has also appeared in several independent films and an animated feature which are currently in production. She maintains an active career as a voice over artist and has recorded three children’s audiobook series for Disney and the Smithsonian institute, and two audiobooks for Random House. She is also the voice of the online dating site, howaboutwe.com and regularly records teleprompts, children educational media and industrials for companies including WebSense, Chase, and EduJoy. She will also greet you on the Edge Studio voicemail system if you are ever calling after hours! She manages her voice over career with the help of Linda Weaver at Access Talent.

Lara currently holds Masters Degree Speech and Language Pathology from Columbia Teachers College and now practices as a member of the Massachusetts General Hospital inpatient team in Boston. During her training, she treated clients with a range of voice disorders and now provides vocal care consultations for professional voice users such as teachers, voice over artists, and singers.

During the last thirty years Ernesto has worked without stopping as a theatre, film, TV and voice actor for TV and radio commercials and multiple audio books.

He was awarded by the Hispanic Organization of Latin Actors (H.O.L.A.) as “Outstanding Performing” and “Best Actor 2008”. He was awarded by the Association of Cronistas de Espectáculos of New York (ACE) as “Revelation Masculine” in 2004 and nominated for “Best Dramatic Actor” in 2008 and 2010.

Living in New York City since 2003, he has been directing his theatrical company, "88 Performing Arts", produced several theatrical shows, and has conducted many acting and voice over workshops. Ernesto has twenty years of experience teaching acting and voiceover classes. As a bilingual talent and coach, diction and accent reduction are one of his major assets. Besides coaching and acting, Ernesto casts and directs TV and radio commercial in Spanish for the United States market. In his own words, "The act of forming voiceover actors and professionals is my passion".

Ernesto was born in Mexico City and started his career in 1984. He finished his professional studies at the National School of Theatre at the National Institute of Fine Arts in Mexico City.

Marjorie Kouns is a Voice Actor and Public Artist known for her character voices on Dora the Explorer and the voices of political pundit Ann Coulter, and Sarah Palin.

For over seven years she’s voiced numerous radio and television commercials, PSAs, telephony (on-hold messaging), and just recently became one of the go-to voices for select Fox-affiliate TV stations in the Midwest.

Her clients include: MiamiBeach411.com, Dun & Bradstreet-Power Profiles, Children’s Hospital Boston, Spanish dubbing for Centerpoint Energy, as well as the voices of both Olive Oyl (Popeye) and Lois Lane (Superman) in the Fleischer Cartoon digital remix series. She’s also the Voice of God (live announcer) for: Radio Ink Hispanic Radio Conference Awards – the Medallas de Cortez, MarketAmerica and Shop.com conferences, Cinco de Mayo Festivals, and the New York City Marathon. Marjorie has recently been featured in a number of films including ‘The Iceman’ directed by Ariel Vromen.

Marjorie came to the Voice Over field after establishing her reputation as an international artist, best known for imaginative and whimsical public space creations. Many of her projects involved public participation. This open, inviting style is carried over to her approach to the teaching of the voice actor’s craft.

Marjorie specializes in Web Narration, Characters, English with Spanish dialects,
Telephony (on-hold messaging), and Copy reading!

Marjorie’s ear for music started out when she was young. She studied flute for ten years and found that the elements of music were similar to the tones of her numerous languages that she speaks today. While fluent in Spanish, she also speaks Mandarin, French, Italian, and even a little Greek in her unique “American Tourist Dialect”.

She is a member of League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC). Her worldwide public art projects include Shades of Shreveport, and Body As Canvas. She practices Qi Gong, T'ai Chi Chuan, and Argentine Tango.

On a personal note: Marjorie grew up with two older brothers in Melrose Park, IL along with her mother of Greek heritage and love of languages, and social dancing, partnered with a father who exemplified service through his love of parks and recreation.

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Naomi is an award winning stage and film/TV actress who brings her skills for personalizing language and owning the text to her voice over work. Naomi has narrated documentaries for PBS, Discovery Channel, Smithsonian, WGBH Frontline, as well as being the voice of Mary Cassatt and Georgia O’Keefe for NPR. Her Industrial film narrations include Nasa, Bell Atlantic, Marriott, State Farm, Redken, the IRS, USDA, Cellular One, and the FBI (shh) among others, her commercials include Ford and she was the voice of Ryan Homes for 4 years.

Naomi started narrating books a few years ago and her clients include Blackstone Audio, Redwood Audio, and Audio Scholar. “I love being in the booth, you create a whole world with just your voice!”

Naomi’s taught for over 20 years; acting, improvisation, voice and speech, at University of Maryland, George Washington University, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Woolly Mammoth Theatre, The Actors Center, & Theater Lab in Washington D.C. She’s been a guest lecturer at the Lee Strasberg Institute in Los Angeles, Cal State Northridge, and the Performing Arts Conservatory, and she coaches Public Speaking to lawyers, preachers and corporate types.

“It’s all about making the listener believe that there is no script, that you are speaking your experience, your truth from your heart, and that the two of you (speaker & listener) are personally connected.”

Naomi’s received 2 Helen Hayes Awards and 12 nominations for her acting work, a prestigious Lunt-Fontanne Fellowship, and an Individual Artist Grant from the DC Commission on the Arts.

Veronica Taylor is a classically trained actor who has performed in NYC and around the U.S. in contemporary and classical theatre. Her voice has been a part of Saturday morning cartoons for some time now. She is probably best known for playing the roles of Ash and May on “Pokemon”, April on “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” and Abby on “Cubix”, among others. Currently, she can be heard as Max on “Dinosaur King”, Carly on “Yu-Gi-Oh!5D’s”, many characters with accents on “Huntik”, and as Tori in “Tai Chi Chasers”. She can be heard on PBS kids’ Word World (Sheep), Lunch Lab (Mixiebot), and the recently launched “Chuck Vanderchuck’s ‘something something’ Explosion!” (Ramona). Some anime favorites include Yukino on “His and Hers Circumstances, Amelia on “Slayers”, all 7 Nana’s on “Nana Seven of Seven”, and Narue on “World of Narue”, as well as many others. She has done numerous voices for animation, video games, audiobooks, commercials, and documentaries.