Lee Bergman

Voice Description

My vocal style combines a standard American commercial sound with a classically trained dramatic capability. Broadcast experience includes on-air news delivery and advertising copy interpretation. Also, with extensive stage experience, including Shakespeare, I can apply a significant dramatic edge - a character portrait - in situations where that may be called for. Also, I have done documentary and industrial narrations. I can be up and funny for commercials; warm and sexy also, or even and smooth-sounding for industrial or corporate tracks, or quite dramatic and character-driven if that is called for.

Voice Genders and "Ages" I Can Perform

• Middle Age Male
• Senior Male

Language(s) of Which I Am a Native Speaker:

• English - North American

I Offer my Services for these Recording Purposes

• Commercials
• Promos
• IVR, voicemail, phone systems, and on-hold messages
• Training, business presentations, sales, and web sites
• Audiobooks
• Documentaries
• TV shows and movies
• Movie and game trailers
• Podcasts

Jobs I Am Willing to Take (Union-wise)

• Non-Union Jobs

• Jobs for AFTRA (US) signatories

• Jobs for SAG (US) signatories

My Union Affiliations and Memberships

None

My Recording and Delivery Capabilities

• I will go to any designated studio in my area
• I can record and then deliver the audio files via Email
• I can record and then deliver the files by regular mail

Pre-, Post- and Production Services I Offer

• I offer copywriting services
• I offer voice direction services
• I offer radio ad production services

My Home Base

Stratford, Connecticut, United States

Accents, Impersonations, Characters and Dialects

Standard American, American South, West Texas, Downeast Maine, Boston, Upper class British,C ockney, Irish, Scottish, Shakespearean,

My Voice Experience

My broadcast work included a fair amount of time writing, producing and voicing radio commercials, in Texas, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Connecticut. As a radio staff person, I was both a newscaster and a a creative director. In news, I reported on original stories, covered local boards, developed in-depth series, while writing and delivering hourly newscasts on a daily basis.
Also, while working in radio, I had several opportunities to create radio ads, from conception to writing to producing to voicing. Sometimes, in producing commercials, I recruited local talent, directing that talent and delivering my voice to tracks as well.
Over the course of some years in radio, I delivered hundreds of hourly newscasts and produced numerous radio commercials in all styles: hard sell and soft sell; for retailers, car dealers. mom & pop stores, banks, department stores, and many others.

My Training

B.S. in Speech Education, Emerson College, Boston, 1975
Shakespeare Scene Study, Louis Burke, Stratford, Conn.
Company Actor, Stratford Theater Project, Stratford, Conn.
Contemporary Scene Study, Gloria Maddox, New York
RADIO: WELI/New Haven, Conn.; WHEB/Portsmouth, NH; KGNC/Amarillo, TX.; WKOX/Framingham, Mass.; WSRO/Marlboro, Mass.
TELEVISION NEWS: KFDA-TV, Amarillo, Texas

My Studio Equipment

Can supply computer-generated studio quality demo tracks

Additional Skills

I believe I can consult with clients on concept, copy, voice elements to help bring a project to a high level of satisfaction. I am limited technically in-house and so can reasonably offer demos upon request, but am willing to travel to a studio within a reasonable distance from my home: primarily the New York tri-state area, including New York City, and Boston.

Payment Methods Accepted

• Personal checks, cashier's checks, or money orders in my local currency

Contact Information

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