Michael Cogliandro

I can do faux British accents, Proper, Exaggerated, Liverpool and cockney-Dickenson-esque. Some Scottish and Irish. And as some cast-off, some Australian/New Zealand. I can Canadian it with an "aboot" and "eh's." I have done a couple of German accents for a student film, but it was short sentences. I can do some italian and some odd mixture of a Spanish/Mexican/Chile accent. I am fairly good at impersonations of Jimmy Stewart and Casey Kasem. I can do John Wayne, young and old (one-lung). o_O Sean Connery? Yes. Clint Eastwood? Yepper. Humphrey Bogart? Sure! How 'bout Katherine Hepburn? Um..OLD Katherine, yes, indeedy! Matthew McConaughey? just a bit, then I lose it... he's just too smooth and laid back! I am fairly adapt at impersonations and odd UFO-type sounds.

Working for KRRT-TV FOX35, I was enlisted in doing voice-overs for commercial television spots. I also performed one or two radio spots for the station. Keep in mind, I was NOT the "voice" of the station. I did not do "Tonight's Presentations." or "Next on Fox-35's" I did commercials. Mostly local stuff. All-in-all I figure I did over 200 spots that aired locally. I was also the go-to guy when they needed to compress 45 seconds of copy into a 29-second spot. Yep, when primed, I can be a fast talker. I have done a voice-over for University of Texas student videos "This Space Between" and some artsey World War Two video piece where I spoke with a hushed German Accent. Both commisioned online. I have a BFA in Communication Graphics fro West Texas A&M University. I did a background vocal on a music track for Sara Hickman. I listen. I listen to voices and music and how the vocalization process works. I am also a graphic artist and cartoonist. I have dabbled in animation using music and voice-overs and sound effects for those animations. I work on a Apple Macintosh computer.