Chuck Davis and Peter K. O’Connell highlight a battle of the coasts during week 4 of MVO: The Voice-Over Guys’ Football Showdown!
CHUCK DAVIS has changed his Football Showdown strategy juuuust a little bit this year – he still loves New England but now has offered a public display of affection for the Giants of New York. On the other hand, PETER K. O’CONNELL still has 3 caps carrying the Packers logo for Green Bay (one white, one yellow and one green).
With the Giants and 2-2 this week and the 2-1 Packers coming off their bye week, this game looks like a toss up and a good one, which is probably why it will be the Sunday night game of the week.
ABOUT MALE VOICE TALENT CHUCK DAVIS
“I come from the same place your customers do. A family, a home…a real life. Let me tell ‘em about your stuff! I’ve found it’s really pretty good!”
Chuck is a real, straight ahead performer with a wry edge, a wink if you will. No announcers here….unless you really want one. In that case he’ll hold a quick séance and channel one for you. Chuck came to voice-over acting by way of music, He’s been a professional musician for most of his life and a major market radio Creative Director. Chucks career so far has led him to perform for national TV campaigns for the likes of Osteo Bi-Flex, WORX Air, Cricket Wireless, The US Dept of Homeland Security, Hasbro and Playskool, He’s the ongoing regional voice for scores of clients including The Central Florida Chevy Dealers, Foxwoods Resort Casino, Trump Resorts and many more.
ABOUT MALE VOICE TALENT PETER K. O’CONNELL
Before Madonna sang about her virginity, when making a phone call from the road meant plunking twenty five cents into a phone booth and back when getting “on-line” meant waiting to check-out at the grocery store, Peter K. O’Connell began his career as a male voiceover talent and live announcer.
As America’s friendly, neighborhood voice-over talent, Peter’s amazingly versatile vocal talent allows him to share many voice acting styles with his clients, who range from Fortune 500 Companies to companies who think $500 is a fortune. From his conversational everyman voice to his hard sell straight announcer performances, Peter’s natural voice over abilities are favored by clients for commercials, narrations, e-learning, documentary, TV promo, radio imaging and live announcing.
A natural born storyteller and an award-winning voice talent, some of Peter’s professional voice-over credits include productions for General Electric, Kraft Foods, PBS (Public Broadcasting Service), Shell Oil, Pitney Bowes, U.S. Army, Starz Cable Channel, Bacardi, SunSetter Awnings, Deloitte, Time Warner Cable, American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), New Jersey Tourism, First Financial Bank, N.A., Western Union, BlueCross Blue Shield, Darien Lake Theme Park, J. Walter Thompson Advertising, Cleveland Browns of the National Football League, Harlequin Enterprises and Pathmark Supermarkets.
Peter K. O’Connell’s voice-over recordings have been heard globally including London, England; Seoul, Korea; the Caribbean; Sydney, Australia; Toronto, Canada; Delhi, India and Buenos Aires, Argentina. Nationally across the United States, Peter’s voice has been heard in all major markets including but not limited to New York City; Los Angeles, California; Chicago, Illinois, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Dallas, Texas; Dayton, Ohio and Buffalo, New York.
OK you’re right, if you’re scoring at home, Dayton, Ohio and Buffalo, New York aren’t really major markets but he has spent so much time there, Peter felt they deserved a shout-out. A native of Buffalo, NY, Peter grew up in the Nickel City – he even worked in radio there at WLVL, for, like a week. He truly developed his broadcasting and voice-over skills in Dayton at WVUD-FM as a top rated disc jockey and then as a commercial producer for the station.
Peter produces his voice projects through his audio production company, audio’connell Voice Over Talent which is a division of O’Connell Communications, LLC. In addition to Peter’s voice over work, which represents a majority of the company’s production schedule, audio’connell also provides casting services for clients looking for professional female voiceover and audio production services for national and international clients. The voice over needs of foreign language clients are served through another O’Connell-owned company, International Voice Talents.
Peter has also written an e-book entitled The Voice Over Entrance Exam. The book examines the business and performance realities of becoming a voice-over talent and maintaining a career among a spirited field of established voiceover professionals. Sometimes, when he’s feeling very “authory”, Peter wears an ascot around his house – it’s very obnoxious.
After years of giving away his hard earned knowledge about everything voice over, Peter decided he should be getting PAID for it so he started audio’connell’s Voice Over Workshop. In private one-on-one voiceover sessions in his studio or via Skype, Peter teaches new and experienced voice talents what he’s learned after nearly 30 years in the voice over business and critical stuff voice actors need to know to get paid voice jobs.
He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Radio and Television Communication from the University of Dayton (OH) – no one is quite sure how – nonetheless the official diploma can be found somewhere in his Cary, North Carolina home (just outside of Raleigh, North Carolina) where he lives with his wife and children.
Thank you for reading all the way to this point in Peter’s biography but now you really need to get away from the screen and go do something more productive – even basket weaving would have been a better use of your time, as opposed to reading all the way down to here, but thanks anyway.