David Straus

French (Parisian), British, American (Southern and Standard),

I've been an actor for stage and film/tv for 19 years. I've done narration for a number of independent films as well as ADR on most of the films I've been in. I've voiced multiple cartoon characters, lip-synching for an episode of a European show that was being translated in English. I've done ADR to replace the voice of another actor in a movie of the week with David Carradine. I did a radio commercial for Oak Bay Cottages. I've also narrated an anti-GMO video. -BA from the University of Toronto Drama Program -Voice/Animation acting with Ron Parliament -Voice/dialect coaching with David Smukler -Voice with Michael Connolly (both at U of T, and in other courses) -Singing with Christina James (Sheridan College) -Singing with Tom Oliver (Voice Concepts/Sheridan College) iPad (Smart Record App) I've been a corporate communications consultant (dealing with presentation skills and getting your brand across to an audience) for over ten years with DCode Communications Inc. I've also been an acting teacher for eighteen years, teaching workshops for Canadian Stage, Young People's Theatre, The Drama Workshop, Avenue Road Arts School, and Arts For Children and Youth. I'm also a writer/producer of plays and short film. I put on my productions of 'Superhero' and 'ac-'TOR' in the Toronto Fringe Theatre festival, and 'The Twelve Animals of the Zodiac and The Passage of Time' with the Avenue Road Arts School to name a few. My wrestling spoof short films with kittens called 'Kitty Slam!' for which I performed half of the color commentary, can be seen on YouTube and funnyordie.com I've also done over the phone coaching/customer roleplaying with e-roleplay, and I'm a patient/client roleplayer and coach with the Standardized Patient program at the University of Toronto.