Deb Doetzer
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Columbia College, Adjunct Faculty

Pete’s range cuts a swath from legendary video games like HALO, to documentary series for the Discovery, History, Biography Channels and MTV Networks. At the top of his long list of commercial credits, The Bud Light Real Men of Genius, the most awarded ad campaign in history. Other clients he has served include, McDonald’s, Sears, Raid, General Motors, Kellogg’s, Proctor and Gamble, along with the promo voice for Oprah, Comedy Central and Country Music Television,

Known as a versatile professional who knows funny, this Puerto Rican-Cuban American was born in Puerto Rico.  Pete was adopted out of Spanish-Harlem in New York and calls Chicago his hometown.  He has even survived having his own mother as his teacher in 4^th grade.

Pete’s been represented his entire voice over career by Stewart Talent, Chicago, with the addition of Paul Wintner Artist Management in Los Angeles.

Joan has been head of the Stewart Talent Chicago voiceover division since 1992, broadening their primarily Midwest client base to include top national advertising agencies, cable and television networks, and ground-breaking gaming designers. She is proud to have assembled an incomparable team of agents, bringing new insight and strengths to the division. As the terrain of advertising has drastically developed in the past decade, her experiences have garnered awareness and acumen that make her remarkably knowledgeable in this field.

Stewart Talent voice actors can be heard in all areas of voiceover work, from innumerable commercials, websites, video games such as Halo and Crysis, as well as promos and movie trailers. Under her direction, Stewart’s voiceover division has developed a national reputation for exceptional voice talent. Stewart Talent is the premiere talent agency in Chicago with offices in New York and Atlanta. Stewart Talent shares its River North building with the offices of its sister fashion agencies, Chosen and Factor Women.

Pete’s range cuts a swath from legendary video games like HALO, to documentary series for the Discovery, History, Biography Channels and MTV Networks. At the top of his long list of commercial credits, The Bud Light Real Men of Genius, the most awarded ad campaign in history. Other clients he has served include, McDonald’s, Sears, Raid, General Motors, Kellogg’s, Proctor and Gamble, along with the promo voice for Oprah, Comedy Central and Country Music Television,

Known as a versatile professional who knows funny, this Puerto Rican-Cuban American was born in Puerto Rico.  Pete was adopted out of Spanish-Harlem in New York and calls Chicago his hometown.  He has even survived having his own mother as his teacher in 4^th grade.

Pete’s been represented his entire voice over career by Stewart Talent, Chicago, with the addition of Paul Wintner Artist Management in Los Angeles.

In 2008, Donna Jay returned to the stage in David Cromer’s acclaimed production of “Our Town.” After opening in Chicago, the production ran Off-Broadway for two years, and recently completed a run at the Broad Stage in
Santa Monica. Donna Jay is married to singer-songwriter Robbie Fulks and residesoutside Chicago with her family. Her work can be viewed at donnajayfulks.com.

As a teacher, last year Patrick guided over 65 performers into their first audiobook narration deals. He has been teaching, producing and performing audiobooks for 20 years, and is a multiple Audie Award nominee and winner.

Patrick, although American, began his career in Australia in 1974.  After receiving his Master of Fine Arts degree in acting from Cornell University, Patrick moved “down under” where he performed the classics as a member of The South Australian Theatre Company, appeared in Peter Weir’s movie, “Picnic at Hanging Rock,” and toured the outback with his own theatre company. While living in Australia he learned the skill of creating, performing, and teaching character voice-overs. When he returned from Australia, he began his long career creating characters for animation at Hanna Barbara in Los Angeles.

Here are some comments from his students and colleagues on his teaching and performing:

Nancy Cartwright “Pat NEVER disappoints. His techniques cover everything the pros in the industry expect you to know, but nobody else teaches.”

Ed Asner “If you’re ready for an audio version of Cirque du Soleil, look no further than Pat Fraley.”

Craig Black (CEO, Blackstone Audio) “Simply put, Pat Fraley is the David Lean of Audiobook Producers. They don’t get any better.”

Brad Garrett “Pat Fraley is such a gifted and passionate coach that immediately after taking his class I became a hand model. He’s truly brilliant. Bring your wallet.”

Mark Hamill “One of the most talented actors I’ve ever worked with.”

Joe Mantegna “In the world of teaching voice over and vocal performance, Patrick Fraley is simply the best.”

Gary Owens “I’ve worked with Pat Fraley for many years doing cartoons and commercials. He is, with a doubt, the greatest character actor in the seat in front of me.”

This Chicago native joined NBC 5 in December 2005, after working at CLTV for 8 years. There, she anchored the weekend news and hosted the award winning entertainment show, “Metromix: The TV Show”, which earned her a local Emmy and several nominations for Best On Camera Performance.

Prior to working at CLTV, she was the News and Public Affairs Director at WUSN-FM, where she reported news on the morning show and hosted, “Chicago Up Close,” a weekly public affairs show. She also worked briefly at Fox News and WGN Radio. LeeAnn began her broadcasting career at WBBM Newsradio 780, where she held numerous positions, including production manager and traffic reporter.

LeeAnn graduated from the University of Illinois at Champaign with a degree in Broadcast Journalism, and attended high school at the Latin School of Chicago.

In 1991, his career started in New York in the Network Advertising & Promotion Department at CBS. From there, his path took him to the NBC Network where he worked his way up the ranks and produced promos for Today, Nightly News, Dateline, as well as produced Dateline International – a 1-hour weekly news magazine show. He eventually was asked to join the Creative Services Team at MSNBC, and moved over to Cable.

After an action-packed year at MSNBC which encompassed major events like the bombing at the Atlanta Olympic Games and the TWA Flight 800 crash (both in the same week!), the deaths of Princess Diana and Jean Benet Ramsey, he had his fill of sad news, and left News to freelance for a few years. His travels took him to Oxygen Media to help with its network launch to Beantown Productions to a few other Stations he hadn’t tried out yet (CNBC, WCBS, and ESPN).

It turned out ESPN was a great fit, since he stayed there for almost 5 years…working on all things sports and promotion.

The pull from his hometown roots in Chicago became too much though, and in 2004, he moved back and stepped into the roles of Manager of Creative Services and Manager of Local Brand Marketing where he oversees the day-to-day production of station Creative and Image. Since he’s been back in Chicago, he’s won 3 Emmys, 3 PROMAX awards, and nominated for several others…but his GREATEST accomplishment has been the fact that all the producers and GFX artists who have worked with him in the past 7 ½ years have EACH won Emmys since he’s been there.

Jay believes you have to fall in order to get up, so no sacrifice is too great…and when you’re right speak up…when you’re wrong, fake it.

Of, course, experience takes time. The last of a classic breed, David Lewis actually started his advertising career in the mailroom. It was his summer job at W.B. Doner & Company in Detroit while he attended college at Eastern Michigan University. During his third summer stint (1975) between his junior and senior years, he was given a chance to be a copywriter. His first assignment, a radio spot for THE DETROIT NEWS, also turned out to be David’s first award-winner.

Upon graduation in 1976, David got his full-time job at Doner, where he worked under three different Creative Directors: Lawrence Kasdan, now an Oscar nominated Screenwriter and Director; Cathy Guisewite, who went on to create the popular comic strip “Cathy”; and Thom Sharp; now one of the country’s top commercial actors and voice-over talents. And, while David learned a lot from each, he takes all the credit for their individual successes.

From Doner, David moved on to Campbell-Ewald in Detroit, where he worked on Borden and Bil-Mar Foods. He also created a “little inside joke” that garnered a lot of national and, ultimately, international attention: The Rula Lenska Fan Club. It was a faux “fan club” for the then unknown star of a series of popular and campy television commercials for a national line of hair products. David’s little inside joke landed him on numerous TV shows, including “The Merv Griffin Show”, as well as dozens of radio shows across the country. David and his “Fan Club” were featured in TIME, NEWSWEEK, PEOPLE, US, and various other magazines, as well as in hundreds of newspapers in North America and Europe. It was his “15-minutes”. It was also the thing that got him noticed for a job at Leo Burnett in Chicago.

At Burnett, David worked on Kellogg’s, Keebler, Green Giant and other top brands. But his biggest success came on McDonald’s, where he wrote numerous memorable Ronald McDonald TV spots, and quite a bit of radio. During this time, David was a member of the comedy improv group “Easy Street”, and appeared in The Second City Children’s Show.

After five years at Burnett, David moved down the block in 1984, to Needham Harper & Steers (now DDB). While he was hired to work on Dial, Kraft, and Busch Gardens, a chance assignment on Bud Light changed the course of his career. It was a pair of Bud Light radio spots that just happened to solve a client’s lingering radio problem. David, and his whole creative group, in fact… were moved onto the Bud Light account soon after. While he wrote a number of the popular “Give me a Light” TV spots, it was his work on Bud Light radio that did the trick. They won a number of awards, and, in doing so, caught the attention of the legendary comedy radio advertising team of Bert, Barz and Kirby in Los Angeles. They offered David a job as their writer/director/producer in 1986.

It was a great experience. In his first year there, David shared credit for 11 of their Clio Awards finalists. He got to work with some of the biggest names in Hollywood, as well as all of the top national voice talents. Best of all, he got to learn radio at the feet of the radio masters: Bert Berdis, Alan Barzman and Jim Kirby. And the stories he can tell you! The Gene Berry story is the best…

After 15-months in Hollywood, David was ready to head back to his beloved Chicago and a VP/Creative Director job at his equally beloved DDB. But after a couple years (1989), he longed for his more beloved radio work. With the encouragement and support of his bosses and friends at the agency, David left the company to form his own: David Lewis Creative Radio.

Since August of 1989, David has written, directed and produced literally thousands of radio spots for agencies and clients throughout the U.S., Canada, and England. His client list is as impressive as it is varied. Everything from beer to cattle wormers… Viagra to Midol. But what David is most proud of is that he’s never had to advertise or promote his business. He doesn’t enter awards shows or even send out sample reels. Not even a website. His business has come exclusively through word-of-mouth from his clients. And that’s the best advertising.

No one in advertising could possibly love their jobs as much as David Lewis loves his. He remembers a sign hanging in the office of one of his agency clients. It paraphrased the quote of a near-death stage legend… The sign read: “Dying is easy. Radio is difficult.” Well, not if you love it.