Don Cosgrove

Old man, upscale British, donscale American, hick, eastern European Dracula and cartoon types and fun voices too numerous to mention and too creative to easily describe.

RADIO COMMERCIALS: VoiceOver Skills, including Narrator and Spokesperson, (Representative Listing) 3M Company (multiple) General Motors Target Cadillac Northwest Airlines Bachman’s European Flower Markets Cub Foods Wells Fargo Easter Seal Telethon Purina Coca-Cola Minnesota Vikings Wisconsin Electric U.S. Armed Forces Educational-Advertising PHP Health Plan Lynn Rose Stores Schmitt Music Nash-Finch Children’s Miracle NetworkTelethon Cargill MN Science Museum Northrup King Red Owl/Country Stores Park Nursery King Koil Jantzen Better Homes & Gardens Waterbed Gallery North Central Florists Wisconsin Telephone 3M Scotch Window Kits WTCN 11 Warehouse Markets VOICE-OVER NARRATION, MULTIMEDIA, CD ROM, AUDIO BOOKS, VOICE MESSAGING, ETC.: (Representative Listing) Lutheran Brotherhood State of North Dakota State of Minnesota American Video Network Prentice-Hall 3M Company (multiple) General Mills Purina American Lutheran Church ‘Star Trek’ Laser Show Voluntary Action Bureau ITT IDS FMC Sacred Heart Church National Car Rental Kellogg CDC (multiple) Toastmasters Professional Research Golle & Holmes, Inc. Woolworths Challenged Citizens of America John Deere Western Electric MN Energy Agency Ginn Publishing Kent Feed Electronic Fingerprinting Wilson Learning Corp. Goodwill/Easter Seal Cenex Boise Cascade St. Paul Companies United Way (multiple) Capp Homes Monsanto Onan, Inc. Augsburg Publishing Society of Audio Consultants Micom, Inc. Retail Bakers of America Pentax NAPA Gelco Betz Homes Emerald City Productions Concourse, Inc. Johnson & Higgins Integrated Strategies, Inc. Guild Publishing Kingsbury Homes TV COMMERCIALS - ACTOR/SPOKESPERSON: (Representative Listing) Wards (multiple Levi-Strauss Full Service Banks Polaris Phillips Distributors General Mills MN Energy Agency MN Science Museum First Banks MGM Liquor Warehouse Brown Shoes Bachman’s K-Tel Datsun Dealers Northrup King Knox Lumber Treflan Airens Motors Satellite Kite Country Store Tiger Toys Litton Microwaves WCCO TV Union Bank Abbott-Northwestern MN Federal NSP/Wisconsin Brenton Bank ON-CAMERA ACTOR - INDUSTRIALS: (Representative Listing) AT&T 3M Company (multiple) Ford Motors General Mills Country Kitchen American Jewelry Home Video Network Wilson Learning Corp. (multiple) Sun Valley Health Connecticut Mutual Hewlett-Packard Lutheran Brotherhood rctic Cat Snowmobiles IDS (multiple) CDC (multiple) Northern States Power DuPont Alpha & Associates Minnegasco IBM Minnesota Mutual American Medical Systems U.S. Armed Forces (multiple) Commercial Credit ADC CPT Enfamil Honeywell, Inc. Prudential Insurance U.S. West ON-CAMERA SPOKESPERSON/NARRATOR - INDUSTRIALS: (Representative Listing) 3M Company (multiple) Target Twin City Federal United Way (multiple) K-Tel IDS (multiple) First Banks Bekin Lines U. S. Postal Service Control Data Corp. Wilson Learning Corp. Pickwick Comserv (MSA) Honeywell, Inc. NSP/Wisconsin Minnesota Federal LDM Minnesota Mutual Don Horton Assoc. Hi-Vee Foods THEATRICAL RELEASE MOTION PICTURES, TELEVISION SHOWS ON-CAMERA & VOICE-OVER ACTING/AUDITIONING TEACHER Rachel River, drama, screenplay by Judith Guest; casket salesman Blood Hook (Muskie Madness), horror/comedy; gynecologist A Heart Lies Beneath…. Television pilot for the Sundance Institute & Viacom PBS Arts Alive After School Special, Social Studies teacher WCCO’s national award-winning The One Who Stole at Christmas, father Radio Theater with Firesign Theater’s David Ossmann & Phil Procter The Talent Center The Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis Multiple Corporations Learning Annex & Community Education venues Recorded several Audio Books, including Black Holes & Baby Universes, Homeopathy & Allopathic, & multiple fiction books PRINT: (Representative Listing) 3M Company (Multiple) Honeywell, Inc. CitiBank General Mills Wards Northwest Airlines Western Electric Format Magazine Carroll’s Furniture Singer Sewing Machines Cargill CDC (multiple) Harley-Davidson Conklin Company Car Quest Auto Supplies Lawyers Service American Family Insurance Phillips Distributors American Medical Systems Eastern Airlines Minn Business Journal Burlington Northern Exec-U-Kit Custom, Inc. Aid Insurance MGM Liquor Warehouse Conklin Company Rosemount Engineering Winnebago Lite’n Crunchy Cereal Softsoap Theater, Directing, Instructional and Writingresumes available upon request 6 years with Fortune 500 Company creating media training and education materials. Multitude of theater roles with professional theaters in Twin Cities, MN, San Francisco and Edinburgh, Scotland. Double Major Psychology/English degree Training voice-over and on-camera talent for decades at major corporations, colleges and theaters, including the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, MN. Teach advanced workshops in commercial voice-over, audio books, narration and internet voice work. Several professional microphones, Sony Sound Forge Audio Studio software; newish, quality computer, mic stands, music stands for scripts, requisite cables, etc. Creative and fun characterizations [have done voices of perfume that glows in the dark, various vegetables and fruits, several animals, infants, space aliens, robitic, Narrator/Spokesperson, Conversation, Friendly, Comic, Upscale, Downscale, Notalgia, Sensuous, Hard Sell, Unique Styles, Unreal Voices, Very Old Codgers]; Voice Overs, Writing, juggling, gardening. Extensive experience on both sides of the microphone and camera.