Voice Description

Warm and deep for narrations, sexy and fun for commercials, strong, authoritative, young, or silly for animated features and cartoons.

Speaking Dialects: Standard English, British Cockney, American Southern, American Urban/Street, Hispanic, Brooklyn

Voice Genders and "Ages" I Can Perform

• Young Adult Male
• Middle Age Male
• Senior Male

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

• English - British
• 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
• Videogames
• Documentaries
• TV shows and movies
• Movie and game trailers
• Adult content
• Others (on-camera, informercials, live announcers, spokespersons)

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

Pre-, Post- and Production Services I Offer

None

My Home Base

New York, New York, United States

Accents, Impersonations, Characters and Dialects

Puerto Rican, Mexican, African American, Brooklyn, British, Yiddish

My Voice Experience

Performances
Metropolitan Opera Children's Chorus at Lincoln Center
(12/80 - 12/86)

Tosca - Altarboy
Lohengrin - Page
Billy Budd - Powder Monkey
Carmen - Peasant
Turandot - Page
Mephistophiles - Chorus


Queensborough Community College Theater
(03/94 - 06/94)

As You Like It - Lord Amiens
Glengary Glenross - Man in bar


Pace University
(09/95 - 12/97)

White Liars, Black Comedy - Col. Melkett
Ivona, Princess of Burgundia - King Ignatius
Trojan Women - Talthybios
Then & Now - Dr. Stephen Wylie/Bernardo/Chorus
House of Blue Leaves - M. P.
Grapes of Wrath - Floyd Knowles
Taming of the Shrew - Lucentio

Pace Players
(02/97)

Trifles - Sheriff


Pace Student Directing Projects
(11/96 - 12/99)

The Grey - Father
The Biz - Stage Mgr/Lighting Engineer
Club Hell - Satan/Joe
Red Water - Sean Reilly
Usualoo Vindicated - Mercury
Sam Shepard’s True West - Lee


Trinity Players of Queens Inc.
(01/98 - 05/98)

Julius Caesar - Commoner/Popilius Lena/Citizen/Lucilius
Valley of the Shadows - Miner/Hales/Scowerer/Bradley


Film Work
Loser Love (1999) - Extra

My Training

Singing Coaches: Ms. Mildred Hohner (Metropolitan Opera Children's Chorus Master), Sister Clare O'Flanagan (IHS)

Acting at Pace University: Prof. Ruis Woertendyke, Prof. Christopher Thomas, Prof. Patricia Woodward, Prof. Alfred Dumais

My Studio Equipment

Unknown - Click here to ask Michael Rivera

Additional Skills

16 years experience as a customer service representative in retail and Information Technology industries.

Payment Methods Accepted

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

Contact Information

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