Norm Russell

Norm has been performing dialects since he was about the age of fifteen! Actual recording experience: Four Radio Stations, One Television Station as station announcer, Video Tape Editing, Cameraman and Set Designs. Radio shows include: Easy listening format with a one-hour, solo newscast Monday through Friday from 5 to 6 PM with World, National and Regional News, Sports and Weather. Live, on-location coverage of major news events via radio broadcast, involving Melvin H. Evans,(Governor of the US Virgin Islands). Over four years of Top 40 Contemporary Radio with (Morning and afternoon Drive Time formats). Performed studio acting at Children's Educational Recording Studios in Del Mar, Calif. Early 80's. Did live reads using a wide variety of character voices and dialects! Format was Audio Children's Story's. Also was the production tape editor. Editing and adding sound effects. (8 Track studio). Norm enjoys writing and producing comedy material as well as creating satire spin-offs on national and regional commercials. Self taught... Radio career began in the US Virgin Islands in 1969. Worked at two radio stations there in three years. Took a three month leave of absence to attend school in Florida in order to pass the test for the then, much-prized (First Class FCC License), a prerequisite to being employed at a Television Station in any Technical Capacity. After two more years on St. Croix USVI, it was on to Miami, Florida where Norm landed a job at WKID-TV 51 in Ft. Lauderdale. Worked into the position as the stations Video Tape Engineer. While there, he excelled and perfected the art of being the stations best ever videotape editor! Moved to San Diego, CA in 1975, held on-air positions at two radio stations for a total of four years of nonconsecutive live shows. In 1986, moved back to Miami to work on offshoot projects related to Miami Vice, which was being filmed there at the time. Performed in-flight voice-overs for Eastern Airlines Flights from New York to Miami. Voice-overs for Channel 2 WPBT-TV in Miami, Florida. Also, performed a variety of voice-overs for several clients in Miami. Included, were voice-overs for foreign films, in English. Since 1988, Norm has resided in San Diego, CA. Norm loves comedy satire! Enjoys taking material and making a spoof out of it. Just for fun! In addition, performs a wide variety of character voices. Oddly enough, some of them have come to Norm over the years while driving down the freeway alone. He will just start talking and out comes these crazy voices! Cartoon characters would be the best way to describe them. "I love anything creative and imaginative", Norm says. Leave him alone in a production room and he'll emerge with some great material! Other things he has done, (not related to this endeavor) include: Mechanical Design and Aircraft Tool Design Engineering as well as having owned a communications company. Norm has to his credit, three short books. One, a Children's story about a cat who wants to learn to fly airplanes and succeeds at it, beyond his expectations! Another book, a How-to on the art of Painting Scenes on Ceramic Plates, and the other, a comedy how-to handbook for the homeless. Oh, not to mention his other passions...Oil Painting and flying!