Tony Brooke- Performance Resume

Tony Brooke has over twenty-six years of experience since 1984 as live event emcee, voice actor, FM radio on-air personality, performing DJ (as DJ Appropriate), trivia quiz host, singer and stage actor. He has also worked in every stage of music creation and broadcasting: as a producer, audio engineer, FM program director, DJ, webcaster, webmaster, technology advocate, teacher and musician. For more on his technical work see silentway.com [3] and his business resume [4]. Tony has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1991.

Voice Talent

Tony is an experienced professional voice talent, with a diverse array of styles, including "Smarmy TV Announcer Guy," "Race Track Crowd Hype Dude," "Radio DJ Man," "Skeptical Husband," "Reassuring Mellow Dad" and more. Years of experience as an on-air radio personality and emcee bring depth to his satiric wit. Click here for Tony's Voice Over reel and examples [5].

Emcee Work

Weekly host of Brainstormer Pub Quizzes [6] since September 2004 at many venues in the Bay Area: Danny Coyle's, Rogue Ale House, Elephant and Castle, Crowne Plaza Hotel, Henry's, O'Neill's, An Bodhran, The Elixir and more. That's over four hundred evenings of announcements, questions, DJing, improv riffing and crowd control.

Emcee for many events and stage shows, including The Spanganga Closing Night SpangBang, "Quiz For Change," "Bad Movie Night" at The Darkroom, corporate events, holiday parties, weddings etc.

Acting

Many stage roles [7]: "Viva Karaoke"; Inspector Hound in "The Real Inspector Hound" (Tom Stoppard); "Lysistrata" (Aristophanes), many variety show bits including remake of "Bing and Bowie's Peace On Earth / Little Drummer Boy".

Narration

Radio News Anchor for Broadcast Services For The Blind (1992-93). Hosted the Rose Resnick Lighthouse For The Blind's "East Bay Focus" news reading service, on the In Touch Network.

Other

Regularly gigging DJ (Appropriate) [8]. Experienced not-too-shabby singer. Active in Bay Area music community, comedy, theater, alt.culture. Former lead singer in band [9] which won college Battle of The Bands. For more see TonyBrooke.com [10].

California Recording Institute (Menlo Park, CA). Graduated 1993.

Graduated at top of class from Recording Arts and Technology program, held at Music Annex Menlo Park studios.

San Francisco State University. 1992.

Audio Engineering courses in the Music/Recording Industry program (now known as the Broadcast and Electronic Communication Arts department).

University of California, Berkeley. 1991.

Post-graduate courses in Mass Communications and Journalism.

Lafayette College (Easton, PA). Graduated 1991.

Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology. Concert producer; DJ (WJRH-FM); Founder of The Vid [11]; Lead singer in band which won Battle of Bands.

Grammy [12] voting member of NARAS [13] (National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences) since 1998. Active Beta Tester.

Writing - Author of silentway.com [14] and webmaster for 13+ domains, DIY FYI Musicians' Guide [15] (SFWeekly [16]), DIY Electrology 101 [17] (SFWeekly [16]), Bay Area Net Music Company Directory [18], The Definitive DA-88 Guide [19] (11,000+ word user's manual), Mac Tips Newsletter [20], articles on music business and the net [21].

Publishing - Associate Editor, page layout designer, copy editor and writer for Harpoon, a comedy magazine. Co-founder, editor and writer for The Vid [11], a literary journal of essays, fiction, humor, poetry and art. The Lafayette newspaper.

Also see this linkedin.com profile [22]. References and address available upon request [1].