Years of experience: 10-25 years
Rick is a three-time winner of the ABA "Goldie" Award for Radio Comedy & Production and has private studio time scheduled most weekdays with weekend slots available as needed.
In October 2005 Rick Sparks transitioned from a 12+ year radio career to performing freelance voice-overs, acting/improv, live announcing, & professional musical composition. He lives in Los Angeles, studies comedy and improv, volunteers voice-over services for The Braille Institute, and is also a member of ASCAP.
Recent voice clients include:
NogginLabs, Chicago IL - Narration and character work, various projects
Spiral Media, Florida - Infomercial narration
Duncan McIntosh Company, Irvine CA - Commercial Voice-Over, GoBoating Magazine
Studio 1080, Los Angeles CA - Narrator, Animal 101 Educational Shorts
Reach Media, Beijing China - Narrator (Watch the Online Promotional Video), Produced by MWP Editorial, Santa Monica CA
SilverStream Productions, Palo Alto CA - Narrator, Solar Energy Infomercial, Eshone Electric
Morningstar Entertainment, Burbank CA - Character Voice, "Black Elk" for The Learning Channel documentary, "Decoding the Past"
Motion City Films, Santa Monica CA - English dubbing for Chinese television pilot, "The Emperor's Daughter," two major characters and various suppporting characters ADR
Nassau Broadcasting, Trenton NJ - "Cash Cow" karaoke character, sixty :30 second character musical clips
EA Sports Florida - Defensive Coach Character, "NFL Head Coach" videogame
Kellogg-Rice, Florida - Male Character, "Flex Bon Paint" campaign
Skystorm Productions - Stage Announcer/Voice of God, "Model Search America - Las Vegas" (Dec 2005, April 2006, Aug 2006, Dec 2006, April 2007, Dec 2007)
MultiMediaPros Studios, Salem MASS. - Mad Scientist Character Voice, "Mini-Melts" corporate video
Awake Pictures - Introduction Narrator - "Topics in Brain Science" DVD
Affordable Audio Productions, Missouri - foreign language ADR, phone system recordings, online accounting training narration
MWP, Santa Monica, CA - Gas Station TV convenience store CCTV voice-overs
12+ years radio announcing (Classic & Current Rock and Hot A/C formats, sports, news, entertainment & interviews), broadcast commercials, and parody/character work. Television commercial voice-over, live events/appearances as host & general announcer, improv/stage comedy training at the Westside Comedy Theater in Santa Monica.
Noise-cancelling recording booth, MXL USB.006 condenser microphone, DSL internet connection, phone patch for monitoring/direction
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