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About Mike Russell Mike Russell, Character and Voice actor (814) 234-4066
   
Height: 5'8"
Weight: 200 lbs.
Eyes: Green
Hair: Lt. Brown
Voice: Lyric baritone; Absolute pitch
Unions: None; Seeking SAG Taft-Hartley or AFTRA work leading to membership.
   
Availability: East or West coast, EU, UK


P E R F O R M A N C E  
   
Feature Films & Television:  
   
• Brainiac, the Movie (2004) Chairman of the Board Terry Michael King, Dir.
   
Industrial Film/Video & Multimedia (1991-):
• ExpenseAnywhere™ Product Demo
  (Design, writing, programming, voiceover)
ExpenseAnywhere.com
• Web@TM™ CD-ROM Product Demo
  (Design, writing, programming, voiceover)
Virtual Communications, Inc.
• Web Enabled Oracle Applications for Solaris
  (Design, writing, programming, voiceover)
Oracle Corporation
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
   
Radio & Commercial Voicovers (1984-):
• WZZD (990 AM), WFIL (560 AM)
   Philadelphia, PA
  (Character voices, ad copy writing)
John Linton,  Prod./Dir.
     
Regional & Community Theatre (selected):
• Cinderella
(Rogers & Hammerstein)
King Maximillian Kim Silverman, Dir.
• A View from the Bridge Eddie Carbone
• Iolanthe Lord Mountarrarat David ben Leavitt, Dir.
• Iolanthe Lord Mountarrarat
(Understudy to Equity Principal)
Bruce Montgomery, Dir.
• Trial by Jury Foreman Bruce Montgomery, Dir.
• H.M.S. Pinafore Royal Marine, Dick Deadeye David ben Leavitt, Dir.
• Ruddigore Ruthven Murgatroyd (Understudy) Carol Freed, Dir.
Companies:    
   
HB Studio & Theater, NYC  
SCCT/Boal Barn Playhouse  
Rose Valley Chorus & Orchestra  
Thespis, Etc.    
West Chester G&S    
     
Villanova University  
   
• B.A. English (1983)  
   
Elizabethan & Jacobean Drama:
Dramaturgy/Scene Study
 
     
Shakespeare:    
• Henry V Chorus, Mountjoy

Joseph Kinney

• The Tempest Propsero

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• King John Austria, Pandulf "
• MacBeth Edmund

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Kyd, Jonson, Marlowe, others:  
• The Changeling (Various)  
• The Jew of Malta  
• The Spanish Tragedy  
• Volpone    
• A Woman Killed With Kyndnesse  
     
Musical:    
John Michael Talbot
Dove award-winning recording artist
Backing Vocalist
Light Eternal Tour (1985)


TRAINING  
     
Acting Technique HB Studio - New York Michael Beckett
Voice & Speech HB Studio - New York Susan Patrick
Lenore Harris
Singing Voice Private Study - Philadelphia Dennis Wilde, O.S.A.
Peter Lamanna
Joseph Erdeljac
Police Survival
and Tactics
ASLET
(American Society for Law Enforcement Training)
 
Small Arms
(Including full auto firearms)
IALEFI
(International Assn. of Law Enforcement Firearm Instructors)
 


SPECIAL SKILLS  
     
Character Voice and Languages Specialist  
U.S. regional dialects and accents
U.K. regional accents:
• Australia & New Zealand
• London/Oxbridge
• Lancashire/Liverpool
• Stage Cockney
• Irish & Scots
• Indian & Pakistani

Other European:
• Dutch/Afrikaans
• French
• German & Austrian
• Italian
   
     
Musical Instruments    
Keyboards (Synthesizers, piano, organ)
Percussion (Orchestral, drumset and ethnic)
Bass (Electric)
   
     
Dance    
American & English folk/country
Basic Jazz and Urban/Street
   
     

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Michael J. Russell
506 Nimitz Avenue State College, PA 16801
Tel: 814.234.4066  Cell: 814.883.4066 Fax: 814.234.4061
mrussell@planetrussell.net