James Karst

Kermit the Frog impersonator, can speak with Southern accent.

I began public speaking regularly as a wire editor at the Pulitzer Prize-winning Times-Picayune newspaper, serving in a capacity that required me to give an original presentation before a highly educated audience on a daily basis. (It was because of these performances that my editor commented that the "man with the golden voice," Ted Williams, sounded like me.) Later, I began performing dramatic readings for my young children. As an actor, I performed on Fox's America's Most Wanted on HBO's Treme, in addition to some principal (but nonspeaking) commercial work. 1994-95: Disc jockey at WUTS-FM college radio in Sewanee, Tennessee 1993-1995: Features editor and writer at the Sewanee Purple in Sewanee, Tennessee 1996: bachelor's degree in English, the University of the South 1996-current: Editor and writer at The Times-Picayune in New Orleans, Louisiana 2012: voice intensive class with actor Gary Grubbs Numerous other skills and experiences: bartender, dog musher, subsistence fisherman, hunter, athlete (baseball, basketball, football, marathons, cycling, curling), motorcyclist, competitive eater (2012 New Orleans crawfish contest champion, media division), automotive mechanic, farmer, beekeeper. SAG-AFTRa