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Do not take life too seriously

We develop strategies, create content, build products, launch campaigns, design systems and then some — all to inspire the people our brands care about most.

Since our inception, we’ve produced cutting-edge creative for Fortune 500 companies like Viacom (Nickelodeon), Panasonic and Lennar with a portfolio spanning industries including tech, healthcare, financial, retail, residential, education and the nonprofit sector.

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Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

September is a fast-growing digital creative agency in NY

We develop strategies, create content, build products, launch campaigns, design systems and then some — all to inspire the people our brands care about most. User engagement and experience has become a major focus for any web-based service in recent years.

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DALE ENTERS THE DEEP NIGHT WITH ALL-NEW SEASON!

Dale Radio presents Season 9! Dale’s gone through some big changes this summer, and now he’s on a path to master the mystic arts. Knowing Dale, that means he’s probably going to get himself trapped in a dimension of crystals. Join him beginning Weds, September 28th as he launches DEEP NIGHT WITH DALE! He’s like an occult Charlie Rose! He’s like Leonard Nimoy on In Search Of. Amazing guests, weird energies, and a lot of black turtlenecks.

Tune in on www.daleradio.com or subscribe and never miss an episode on iTunes. Also available on SoundCloud, Stitcher Radio, and Google Play.

DEEP NIGHT kicks off with a live season premiere episode featuring Dale’s guests Julee Cruise (Twin Peaks), Rachel Chavkin (Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812), Dan Kennedy (The MOTH), and Rosebud Baker (Netflix Campfire Podcast). Featuring music all evening by theremin virtuoso, Cornelius Loy. It’s happening at The Slipper Room in New York City, Wednesday, September 28th at 8pm. Doors open at 7pm. Tickets are available by clicking through this link: http://www.slipperroom.com/event/1301549-guest-event-dale-radio-deep-new-york/.

For more info on the guests and to listen to every episode from all nine seasons, visit www.daleradio.com.

BRING OUT THE BOLD!

Everywhere I go, people are asking me to shout my now-famous catchphrase, “BRING OUT THE BOLD!” And I happily oblige! I’ve signed so many bottles at Duane Reade, it’s ridiculous, but that’s the price of fame, I guess.

I have to put up with some of this attention now that I’ve provided the voice for the new global ad campaign from J.Walter Thompson for Johnson & Johnson’s Listerine. This series of ads for radio, tv and the internet launched April 4, 2016 and should be building as the year goes on. It was an incredible opportunity to work on this project and I’m thankful to everyone involved in bringing me in. And now I get to be a part of SAG-AFTRA, which means I get a pin, and a card for inside my wallet, and daily emails about things that are happening in the entertainment business! Ask me about residual schedules!

Here’s one of the ads for your enjoyment.

WUNNERFUL RETURNS TO JOE’S PUB 4/10

Join co-hosts Leslie Goshko (Huffington Post Comedy) and James Bewley (Dale Radio) as they present an all-new musical salute to spring inspired by the long-running Lawrence Welk television program. Far from a traditional tribute, the hour-long event veers off into unexpected territory as petty jealousies, forbidden passions, and over-sized egos of the cast are revealed. Bewley, as his alter ego Dale Seever, picks up the celebrated conductor’s baton to lead an evening of popular songs as reimagined by a talented cast that includes:

Downtown cabaret sensation Molly Pope; genre-defying song stylist Salty Brine; singer- songwriter Cariad Harmon; three person brass section and comedy troupe The Trumpet Boys; emerging choreographer Carol Mendes & Artists; along with singing sirens Barrie McLain,
Ashley Pérez Flanagan, Tonya Glanz, and Shaye Troha; with an orchestra of handsome gents known as The Wunnerful Companions (Andrew Bancroft, Moondrunk; Chris “Shockwave” Sullivan, Freestyle Love Supreme; Eric Biondo, Antibalas; Steve O’Reilly, Tammany Hall NYC) .*
*Lineup subject to change

Wunnerful Wunnerful!: A Retro Variety Show will take place:
Sunday, April 10th, 2016, 9:30pm (doors open at 9:00pm)
@ Joe’s Pub
425 Lafayette Street (at Astor Place)
NY, NY 10003
212-967-7555

Tickets are $20 online. $12 food minimum or two drink minimum per person.
http://joespub.publictheater.org/

Photo by Rebecca Smeyne.

Voice Work Reel

Here’s a short reel featuring additional examples of my voice over work. I am a member of of SAG-AFTRA and have provided voices for a number of clients including the Bring Out The Bold campaign for Listerine from Johnson & Johnson, produced by J. Walter Thompson Worldwide. For that campaign, I’ve provided voice overs for online ads, terrestrial radio, Pandora, industrials, call-in centers, and television spots that air in the US and Canada. I’ve also provided VO for projects from PSEG, the AARP Foundation, McGraw Hill, Copyright Clearance Center, Smarter Balanced, and a number of independent film, video, and animation projects. For voice over needs and inquiries, please contact Mike Milmore, Commercial Agent, Atlas Talent Agency, 212-730-4500.

New Web Series & More Story Shows

Just did a guest spot over on Dale Radio and then I heard Dale was giving me a hard time about keeping this website updated, so here is some very up to date info about two upcoming shows happening in November.

First up, I’m pleased to be doing The Jenny Rubin Show at the HiFi Bar in NYC on Thursday, November 12 with Tom Cowell, Margaret Dodge, Rebecca Vigil, Jason Burke and the wonderful host, Jenny Rubin. You may recall that I was scheduled to do one of these back in January, but something happened there with the venue and we didn’t end up actually doing a show. So will I bring out the story about Christmas originally intended for that or do I tell a new one? Who knows. Depends on how long these web updates take! But it would be wonderful to see you at the show. If you can’t make that date, boy are you in luck!! I’m going to be sharing another story on the Bitchcraft show hosted by the incomparable Selena Coppock and Lauren Maul and the world famous Duplex on Tuesday, November 24th. There’s a piano and puppets and good drinks and a weird bathroom – this place has it all!

Also – speaking of having it all, Dale’s been busy producing a new series of web videos called Opening Bags. It’s produced in collaboration with the fantastic comedy platform SanFrangeles. Which you can visit at http://www.sanfrangeles.co/. The show is a take on the popular form of Haul Videos, mostly created by young women online who enjoy showing you what they just bought at the store. But like, just bought, then set up some lights, did makeup and hair, wrote a script, learned basic editing techniques, etc. Here’s an example. The point is, it’s a genre of web video wherein people basically open their shopping bags and tell you what kind of sweater is hot right now. I find most sweaters a little too hot right now, which is why I’m wearing a vest.

The point is, you won’t want to miss an episode of Dale’s new show, so set a tickler for Opening Bags, with new bags opening every Tuesday. It’s like an advent calendar for depressive alcoholics. Watch it on SanFrangeles or on Dale’s YouTube Channel: www.youtube.com/daleradio.

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Virtual reality makes presidential debate virtually unwatchable

Since Richard Nixon sweated and scowled his way through the first televised presidential debate with John Kennedy in 1960, TV’s importance in American politics has been well established: Being a successful politician, or at least getting elected, requires knowing how to look good on camera.

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