Voice Coaches

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Voice Coaches
Private
Headquarters,
Key people
  • David Bourgeois, President and Creative Director
  • Anna Bourgeois, CFO
  • John Gallogly, Senior Creative Director
Services
  • production
  • recording
  • voice talent development
Number of employees
17
Website voicecoaches.com

Voice Coaches is a voice-over production and training company headquartered in Albany, New York. Company services include voice-over and communication training as well as voice-over recording and production. [1] Voice Coaches is owned and operated by composer, producer, sound designer, and voice over director David Bourgeois and his wife Anna. [2] [3]

Contents

Company History

Voice Coaches has been operational since the year 2000. [4]

Training

Voice Coaches provides services across the US and Canada, offering voice over production and communication training. [1] [3]

Production

In addition to voice over training, Bourgeois and Voice Coaches have also produced voice over content for a variety of projects in commercial and narrative media as well as film and television, including the TLC series While You Were Out and HGTV's FreeStyle . [1] [4] Other production clients include Discovery Channel, WE tv, and Universal Music Group.

The company is currently working with actress Gabriella Pizzolo to produce voice over for a Nickelodeon series. [5]

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