Rob Hunter

Characters abound in the latest production: my story, "Mark Twain in Milan." I play two (2) women: a nineteenth century British noblewoman and a 21st century Manhattanite; three (3) men: Mark Twain with a Missouri accent filtered through Dale Robertson, Andy Saperstein, a Bay Ridge Brooklynite, and Giancarlo Pieranunzi, a 19th century math professor at the University of Turin. In "An Unwarmed Fish" I play an Irish hitman, a Celtic goddess, and Kathleen Ferguson, a world-weary barroom proprietor. Note: my UK and Irish accents are burlesques and are as broad as they are shallow. They are serviceable, craftsmanlike, and drive the tale, but for authenticity you'd be better off looking elsewhere. In "McMuckle Makes a Minyan" I am the voice of God (and everyone else).

At last, it happened. They said--oh, those many years ago--that the Marlboro Man pendulum would have to swing. Eventually. Those big, testosterone-clogged voices would, in the new millennium, become the spokesmen of yesterday. Hope it's not too late. (Cue white rabbit; check calendar. Rabbit consults large sliver pocket watch.) But seriously now, folks. I have been talking, engineering and producing audio for decades. I think I'm pretty good--but it is your opinion that counts here. And thanks for listening. Telegraph operator for the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad Company.The Milwaukee Journal—where I was a copy boy for over two years and picked up fast two-finger typing and a deadly aim with a paper clip and rubber band. I pasted up the stock market pages for the last two years. Masterpiece Recording (New York City) – studio technician. WINS-Westinghouse Broadcasting (NYC) – Tape editor for Program P.M., an hour-and-a-half nightly magazine show. WBAI, Pacifica Radio (NYC) – production manager, recording engineer, chief announcer. Handled traffic and produced the kids’ shows (Programs for Young People). We produced the first radio call-in show for kids in New York. Over the next eight years either engineering or staff announcing at WWON, Woonsocket, Rhode Island; news reading/writing at WJAR, WXTR and Channel 10 (all in Providence, R.I.) and the morning shows at WSAR (Fall River, Mass.), WBT-AM (Charlotte, N.C.), ad WIVY(Jacksonville, Fla.). Program Director at WSAR for two years. Back to New York City and my favorite people of all time—ServiSound, Inc. Our relationship over more than three decades had been audio work – scoring, cutting and mixing music and effects for clients as disparate as Prentice-Hall Learning Media, The Psychological Corporation, MTV (all their audio work to video before they built their own studios), Public Television – The Brain and Nature series, and overseeing ServiSound's high-speed cassette duplicating operation. One of my perennial clients was Sherry Huber at Random House – over ten-plus years editing and mixing over fifty titles in Random House’s Audiobook series. Our Short Stories of Ray Bradbury got a 1987 Spoken Arts Grammy nomination. (We didn’t win.) I have a long-standing relationship with Sound Expressions, a state-of-the-art digital studio just over the border from me in Lake Utopia, New Brunswick, Canada. Chris Gay, the proprietor, has all the bells and whistles: phone patch (2-way communication during the session, with a hi-fi foldback to the producer) Proprietary music and/or sound effects--the customary "thousands of cues" the other guys talk about, a keyboardist, synthesizer rack on tap, on premises. New to the process? We'll walk you and your project through--every step of the way.