I was discovered in a cask of palm oil behind a stack of Mad magazines in the root cellar at Monticello. Liberated by kindly paleontologists, I made my way to New Orleans, where I became involved in local politics and led the campaign to fill Lake Pontchartrain with a rich cream sauce. Run out of town by irate army engineers, I made my way to Paris and assisted the Curies in their early experiments with radioactive bologna. This proved overly stressful, as Marie Curie’s keen interest in nutmeg was “off topic”, according to Pierre, and there was much shouting. Fortunately, Duran Duran were touring France at that moment, and I was able to stow away in Simon Le Bon’s flight case until the tour arrived in New York.

Somehow, I ended up in Southern California, where I had my first voiceover job playing the voice of “a little boy” for some educational presentations. I spent the rest of my pre-adult years in the Los Angeles area, running around doing pre-adult stuff like going to UCLA, playing drums, guitar and volleyball, climbing mountains, and skulking. All this running around proved tiring, however, so I decided to go back to the entertainment industry and its buzzing neon signs, Swing Out Sister haircuts and tiled foyers.

Hard to believe, but I’ve been in the voiceover business for over 20 years now, and have worked on hundreds of projects in all types of media, from radio to the Internet. I narrated over 45 episodes of the Food Network Challenge, as well as The Young Scientists Challenge for the Science Channel, The History of The Beach for the History Channel, and several special features in the Star Wars Trilogy DVD boxed set. You can hear me as multiple characters in The Adventures of Andy Applebutter, an animated educational DVD for children; and most recently, I voiced spots for Uloric, The Chicago Theatre/Chase and Southwest Medical Associates – as well as internal content for State Farm and Mastercard, and web content for Kohler.

When I’m not voicing, coaching and producing voiceover demos, you’ll usually find me untying pretzels, raising baby alligators, or patrolling the bluffs in Santa Monica while keeping a careful eye out for significant onshore flow.