Paul Lewis

I've been a backwoods roughneck for a BBQ chain, a leprechaun for a St. Patty's Day "Pot O' Gold" Giveaway Contest, and my wasted youth with cartoons and Monty Python on telly has facilitated my cockney and aristocratic British accents. Aussie, Chinese-American, mobster, New York mook, left coast surfer and right coast preppie are others that come to mind. I'm the product of a Brooklyn Jewish dad and an Irish Catholic mom (nuff said). My daughter asks me why I don't voice cartoons instead of boring ol' radio commercials.

Copywriting, production and voice talent as Production Director and afternoon drive AT for WJBR-FM, the #1 ranked (Arbitron, Fall 2009) AC radio station in market #76 (Wilmington, DE), we are overlaid by market #6 (Philadelphia, PA) - so we have to sound good as them! I've voiced every kind of safety, training and product rollout video. I've voiced children's books as the narrator and as various characters. Voiced yoga videos, local cable TV ads and promos, and thousands of radio spots of every description from "sexy smoothie" to "crazed shouter". College and community acting experience actually brings new life to those cliche-ridden copy (not yours, of course) that begin with "Honey, I'm home!" I can do the "expected" take, and I can find the new spin. Whether I write for my own voice or for directing others, I am adept at communicating well within 30- and 60-second time constraints, but love settling in, slowing down and breathing life into real organic Storytelling. When you give me time, you can hear it in my voice: "What a treat, the luxury of the long form." Methacton High School, Fairview Village, PA: Director of morning TV news broadcast. Messiah College, Grantham, PA: Bachelor of Arts, Radio-TV-Film, with campus radio and live performance theatre experience. Performed title role in a production of Eugène Ionesco's Shakespeare satire, "Macbett". Temple University, Philadelphia, PA: completed RTF degree requirements with concentrations in Animation and Film Criticism, externship at an animation studio. Radio Production Training: Tom Richards at B101.1 in Philly, John Linton at WZZD-AM in Philly, and Bill Kaye at WJBR-FM in Wilmington. MXL V67i through a Cakewalk USB AudioCapture into Adobe Audition running on WinXP. Radio Production Training: Tom Richards at B101.1 in Philly, John Linton at WZZD-AM in Philly, and Bill Kaye at WJBR-FM in Wilmington. Director of Morning TV News Program: Methacton High School, Fairview Village, PA Campus Radio and Live Theatre Performances: Messiah College, Grantham, PA Bachelor of Arts, Radio-TV-Film. Performed title role in a production of Eugène Ionesco's Shakespeare satire, "Macbett". Temple University, Philadelphia, PA: completed RTF degree requirements with concentrations in Animation and Film Criticism, externship at an animation studio.