Perry Persoff

Voice Description

Conversational and personable for a slice-of-life approach, smooth and comfortable for a friendly & sincere connection a listener can relate to (the anti-thesis of "announcerish"). Straight forward and professional for documentary narration or announcements. Character voices of various personalities--you give me the attitude, I'll give you the voice.

Voice Genders and "Ages" I Can Perform

• Young Adult Male
• Middle Age Male

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

• English - Other

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
• Podcasts
• Others (on-camera, infomercials, live announcers, spokespersons)

Jobs I Am Willing to Take (Union-wise)

• Jobs for ACTRA (Canada) signatories

• Jobs for AFTRA (US) signatories

• Jobs for British Equity signatories

• Jobs for SAG (US) signatories

• Jobs for Union des Artistes (Canada) signatories

My Union Affiliations and Memberships

• AFTRA (US)

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 can deliver edited and finished voice tracks
• I offer voice direction services

My Home Base

Boston, MA, Massachusetts, United States

Accents, Impersonations, Characters and Dialects

British upper class, British working class, Australian, Irish (beyond the Lucky Charms leprechaun...), Russian, French, Dracula, Boris Karloff, Mr. Friendly & Sincere, Deep Thoughtful Guy With An Edgy Undertone, The Food Lover (especially desserts), Snooty, Righteous Anger, Mr. Fake & Sleazey, Humorous--Hyperactive & Flighty, Humorous--Dry or Deadpan,

My Voice Experience

Hello, and thank you for looking at my profile!

I have worked in Radio and both voiced and produced spots within my stations. I have also done Agency voiceover (V/O) work for both Radio and TV. For your convenience, I have divided my work below into the following:
Agency Voiceovers;
--Commercials, Educational, Promotional,
Corporate Training, and Audio Theatre/Film V/O's.
Radio commercials done as a staffer at Radio stations;
TV commercials done at a local TV station.
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AGENCY VOICEOVERS (TV V/O's were off-camera)
Commercials:
Comcast [Radio];
Saint Mary’s Credit Union [Radio];
Marshall's Department Stores [TV];
Summit Mortgage [TV];
State Street Discount [TV];
Trilogy Apartment Complex [Web-based campaign];
State of Maine Office of Securities [Radio];

Educational:
Museum of Jewish Heritage, NY [Exhibit voiceover];
New England Research Inst. AIDS/HIV video [animation];
Houghton Science education [Website/CD-ROM];
EF Education [audio "textbook"];

Promotional:
Omnipod (diabetes product) [promotional video];
Worldways Social Marketing [website virtual tour];

Corporate Training [all for Website/CD-ROM]:
Footlocker; IET; Six Red Marbles; Skillsoft;
One2One Interactive; Click2Learn; Vitesse Multimedia.

Audio Theatre/Film
Night & Fog--Narration V/O
[Emerson College translation from French];
A Christmas Carol (public radio edit)
--voiced Jacob Marley and two small roles,
was Asst. Post Production Engineer) [WUML, Lowell]
The Gristmill—episode “The Dark Ride" [Audio play CD];
Legalized America--segment V/O [independent film]

Recorded as a commercial voice talent while on staff at
WXRV-FM/Boston, MA:
Various electronics stores, law firms, concert venues,
furniture stores, colleges, restaurants, ski resorts,
car dealerships. E.g; Tweeter, Jordan's Furniture,
Fleet-Boston Pavilion, The Paradise, Okemo Mt, etc.

Recorded as a commercial voice talent while on staff at
KOTR-FM/San Luis Obispo, CA:
Various restaurants, clubs, surf & sport shops,
clothing stores, concerts of varying genres
and venues from bars to city amphitheatres.

Recorded as a commercial voice talent for
KSBY-TV/San Luis Obispo, CA:
The Network Shopping Mall; Avila Beach Blues Festival;
Allied Auto Service; Tom's Toys.


*AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST*:
List of interviews I have conducted with musicians and
community group representatives while working in Radio.

My Training

University of California at Berkeley
--Bachelor of Arts in Mass Communications
--Worked as a DJ at the college radio station, KALX
Also learned audio production basics.

California State University at Northridge
(transferred to University of California after two years)
--Worked as a non-student community volunteer after
graduation from University of California:
DJ, trained others, interviewed musicians.
--Relevant coursework while a student at CSUN included
Theatre, Speech Communication, and PR classes.

Before college, I was an actor in high school and junior high school. Otherwise, my best training for voiceover work has been Radio. In particular, I was Production Director for five years at a very creative station called KOTR in San Luis Obispo, CA. As a passionate believer in the station, it was very important to me that the commercials be credible and not insult our audience. On each spot I voiced or wrote, I worked very hard to consistently find that balance, while also having an entertaining personality if that could be appropriate. That was the
"personality" of the station, after all. As a result, my spots usually strayed away from being generic. To this day, I try to lift the spots off the copy and into the listener's life experience.

My Studio Equipment

I have Adobe Audition software on my home computer. I have access to a quality microphone--an RE 20--in a good recording room at work, which I can access after hours. For many of my audio projects, I write the script, voice it at work, save the voice tracks to a CD or other portable media (or e-mail them to myself). I then bring that home where I produce the project using Adobe Audition. I will edit, boost, and if necessary adjust EQ on the voice tracks. Then with the appropriate music or sound effects accessible as sound files on my computer, I arrange the music segments on the digital multi-track. After that, the project is mixed down to two tracks.

Additional Skills

Relevant Volunteer Work:
American Diabetes Association/Boston, MA
Wrote, voiced, and produced audio PSA's for the 2006
Walk For Diabetes (Boston).
Edited, cleaned up, and EQ'd existing voicetracks
(by Fenway Park PA Announcer Carl Beane) recorded for
audio PSA's for 2007 Boston Walk For Diabetes.

Recording For The Blind & Dyslexic/Cambridge, MA
Off and on since approx 1998 I have been a
volunteer, mostly as a reader but occasionally as a
director. In February 2009 I started up again, as a
reader--i.e; reading segments of books for RFB&D
clients. This is a great cause. It is also good
practice for any potential books-on-tape VO jobs.

Clay Center for Science & Technology/Brookline, MA
I was the MC for a Robotics competition at the Clay
Center on Dec 13, 2008 (the First Lego League).

Radio Work
WXRV-FM 92.5 The River/Boston, MA market.
In addition to voicing and producing commercials, I
also introduced the band or artist at a number of
concerts the station sponsored.

Payment Methods Accepted

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

Contact Information

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