Paul Preston

Accents: AUSTRALIAN, BRITISH, CAJUN, CANADIAN, COCKNEY, FRENCH, GERMAN, IRISH, MINNESOTA/WISCONSIN, NEW ENGLAND/BOSTON, NEW YORK/BRONX, NEW YORK/BROOKLYN, SCOTTISH, SOUTHERN, SPANISH, CHICAGO Impersonations: Gilbert Gottfried Donkey (from “Shrek”) Cliff Claven (John Ratzenberger) Frasier Crane (Kelsey Grammer) The Tick Norm MacDonald Sean Connery Bill Clinton Dennis Hopper Bryan Brown Harrison Ford Richard Dreyfuss Jackie Mason Bobby McFerrin Jack Nicholson Tigger Hank Hill (Mike Judge) Al Pacino Peter Gabriel Marlon Brando Vince McMahon Steve Martin Christopher Lloyd Mickey Mouse Roger Rabbitt Buzz Lightyear Homer Simpson Adam Corrola Ted Knight Bob Dole Christopher Walken Randy Newman Dr. Zoidberg PLUS: Miles Davis in concert as well as most of the cast of the Star Wars trilogy, The Simpsons & The Princess Bride and I’m up for any challenges!

Genre & Cookie-cutter-defying Voice-over work: HIGHLIGHTS: ON THE RADIO: Navy Pier spots in Chicago ON THE TV: NBC-TV's "Passions" ON THE SPOT: Live voice work as Donkey from "Shrek", Bill Clinton and more. I've recorded PSAs, narration, multiple characters in a novelization, CD-ROMS, serial dramas and more. COMMERCIAL Hauntings at Navy Pier (Navy Pier radio spot - regional) Astound Broadband - "Connecting Communities" (TV commercial - regional - 25+ spots) Weather is Wonderful (Navy Pier radio spot - regional) International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse (PSA - local) NARRATION Americana History (Armed Forces Radio Network/Northwest Telecommunications - Video Series) INDUSTRIAL Open Enrollment Success! (Bill Clinton - Live Rush/Prudential event) Mindsight (Demo CD-ROM) CKL, Inc. (CD-ROM & video) LCX Industrial (Abbott Laboratories/Second City Communications) Household Retail Services (Video Impressions Industrial) CityWalk park-wide Announcements (Universal Studios Hollywood CityWalk) MISC. Donkey’s Waffle House (Universal Studios Hollywood) Tribulation Force (Gap Digital - Novel Dramatization) Toy Demo - Find Buzz Lightyear (Breslow, Morrison, Terzian & Assoc./Mattel) Summer of the Eclipse (Serial Drama for WNYF) Ron Herman - E! True Hollywood Story (Digital Mind Productions special event video) Acting - BFA Acting, State University of New York at Fredonia Meisner Technique - Kevin Will, The Actor’s Space, L.A. The Audition Studio, Chicago - Rachael Patterson The Second City, Toronto & Chicago - Training Centers, Martin DeMaat, Joe Keefe & more ImprovOlympic, Chicago - Training Center, Del Close, Charna Halpern & more Voice - Baritone/Tenor (Jen Winkler, Patrick Mason, Dan Ihasz Dance (19th Century) - Patri Pugliese, Charles Garth, Vintage Dancers Combat - Michael Donahue, SAFD Fight Classes I have a CAD GXL 2200 Condenser Microphone with tripod boom stand and cables. A Behringer HA400 4-channel Stereo headphone amplifier with headphones. Everything is run through a MACKIE 1202-VLZ PRO 12-channel mixer. Recordings are output through the mixer, digitally recorded and edited on my Mac, exported and delivered. I host and run a podcast called "The Movie Showcast" each week. It's a comedy show about the movies: iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-movie-guys/id342669760?mt=2 SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/movieguysla YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/TheMovieGuysOnline I built a studio in my garage called The Admiral's Club and we crank out shows weekly there.