Eric Schumacher

Accents include British upper class, Cockney, Scottish, Irish, Australian, American southern (many sub-dialects), American New York, Russian, Egyptian Arabic. I have an excellent capacity with accents and can learn new ones easily. I cna do many differnt character voices of allkinds of tonal ranges, and can impersonate almost any male voice. I have particular skill with Muppet, Warner brothers characters, Disney cartoon characters Etc.

I have performed as a an on camera actor on film, TV and new media for many years. Highlights include roles as Wyatt Earp for national TV and Doc Holiday for a feature film directed by the legendary Alex Cox. Over the years I have performed as a voice actor in tv and radio commercials (local and national), audio books, done voice only characters for films corporate marketing videos for companys both small and international in size and played a variety of characters with many different accents and tones of voice. Ive even been the voice of a phone system for a tech company and the occasional video game character. I always look forward to a new challenge and seeing my clients get as excited as I do when they hear ther results. I am a classically trained character actor from an acting family. My training began when I was 6 years old with my parents , who are both actors. I have been mentored by a variety of actors and teachers, both unknown but excellent and some fairly well known and respected such as the late Paul Mantee. I've studied voice acting with some of the best of the best such as veteran voice actor and producer Susan McCollom for general and commercial voice acting, the late Lucille Bliss (best known as Smurfette in the 80-90 era NBC cartoon) for cartoon and character voice acting, veteran voice actor and producer Jay Ginsberg. I have studied voice primarily with Joan Schumacher (my mother yes) an expert at voice production , and a dialect coach.I in fact give very popular voice over workshops to mostly packed rooms at sci fi conventions and comicons frequently. I am a partner in a multi media production company. For quick turn around job I use my own equipment which includes a Blue Baby bottle microphone with a sound baffled home studio and basic audio editing equipment. While I am not an audio engineer, I can do some basic adjusting on my own I have easy access to a more built out studio and several professional audio engineers who can work magic with any audio project. I can sub contract with them as needed and cna get great rates from them. I addition to my acting work, I am a multiple award winning director and producer of film and multimedia projects. I am a partner in Seelie Studios, LLC which has produced hundreds of hours of video and audio productions of all kinds for feature films to podcasts with a large number of followers. Through Seelie Studios, I can cast, crew and produce just about any audio or video/film based project in any form of development. This includes scripting, budgeting, sub contracting, general pre-production production, post production and even assist in marketing if needed. As an actor, I have been blessed to have performed in some well publicized projects recently and my fan base has grown significantly. I will be happy to promote projects I'm involved in to that fan base by request as a by product of my involvement. My fans enjoy hearing about my latest work.