ABOUT ME

I grew up in Middletown, New York. As a teenager, I was determined to be a rock star. My high school rock band was going to rule the world—or so I thought. In the mid-80s, after some soul searching, I decided to leave Middletown, and my band, to live with my mom in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. She had divorced my dad several years earlier and moved there. I went to the local community college and was soon off to the University of Hartford in Connecticut to study classical guitar and music theory at the Hartt School of Music. After a change of heart, I decided to drop out of college to find myself.

By my early twenties, I had married and started a family. I held all kinds of jobs to try to keep food on the table, including pumping gas, working in the plastics industry, and even selling vacuums door-to-door. My first attempt at a “career” was in the healthcare field as a nursing assistant. Around 10 years or so into that, I heard a commercial on my car radio for the New School of Radio and Television in Albany, NY. I signed up immediately!

Radio was to be my destiny. And I guess it was…for 25 years, anyway. I wanted to be a talk show host initially, but that didn’t exactly pan out. I started as a board operator for Red Sox games at 1420 WBEC in Pittsfield. After a few years, I had an opportunity to take a part-time news gig with the same station and its sister station, LIVE 105 WBEC FM. One day, the news director at the time said to me, “Some day, this will all be yours.” About a year later, he was fired, and it was. I remained news director and ran the day-to-day operations at 1420 WBEC for about 25 years in total. The radio stations changed hands probably six times over that time period. I was laid off in 2013 and hired back a year later. I was laid off one final time in 2022. It was then I decided that I was done with radio and would never again work for someone else. It was time to pursue voiceover full-time.

I started in the voiceover field part-time while working at my full-time radio job. I learned as much as I could on my own in all the ways that you might expect. I took advantage of every free learning and practicing opportunity that I could find. I wasn’t able to afford coaching or a demo until many years later. In the meantime, I did as much corporate voiceover work as I could get my hands on. I became a full-time voice actor in 2022 and continue to do mostly corporate narration, e-learning, and explainer videos, but I also work in lots of other genres, including commercials and film. I’ve done a handful of voices for video games and the like as well.

Outside of voice acting, I am also a working musician. I play guitar in a band that I started in 2010 called The Matchstick Architects. Playing music is a true passion of mine, and I don’t think that will ever change.

I’m still not a rock star. It’s okay. I still have time.