Ray Faiola

ACCENTS include: Cockney, Welsh, Liverpudlian, Scottish, French, Spanish, Mexican, Cuban, New Englander, Southeastern US, Texan, Japanese, Chinese, Scandanavian, Slavic, Greek and others. CHARACTERIZATIONS include Old Geezer, enthusiastic youngster, soft spoken authority; bombastic barker, dumb, erudite, snobbish, comforting hubby, and natural/neutral that sounds like a non-actor. IMPERSONATIONS include Raymond Burr, Lionel Barrymore, Oliver Hardy, Stan Laurel, Henry Stephenson, C. Aubrey Smith, Claude Rains, Ed Gardiner, James Finlayson, Warner Oland, Marc Lawrence, Al Jolson, Winston Churchill, Dwight Eisenhower, To Be Continued...

In addition to many promotional announcements for Miami radio and public television, I have recorded novels for the Jewish Braille Institute. I have produced and appeared in many old time radio recreations including THE WAR OF THE WORLDS. BFA in drama from University of Miami, training by the great Robert "Buckets" Lowery. I am a theater, film and OTR historian. I do most of my production in the pro version of Sound Forge. I have a Mackie mixer and a trio of Shure mikes. In addition to voice over productions I also restore classic motion picture scores and have been doing audio production for nearly 20 years. Stage actor, recently appearing in several productions at the Shadowland Theatre in Ellenville, NY (Equity House) and the Bickford Theater in Morristown, NJ.