The Voice-Over Seed was planted very early on in Doug’s life. While growing up about a half-an-hour from New York City, Doug remembers tagging along with his father, Len, to voice-over sessions around the Big Apple. Sitting quietly among the engineers and producers in the recording bay of the studio, Doug was able to observe the creative process involved in the world of VO. He recalls it all being very collaborative, fun, exciting… and a pretty cool way to earn a living.

At around this same time, Doug began to cultivate his passion for music and singing. He picked up the guitar at 10 years old. He played in bands throughout high school and while attending NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, where he studied acting. During and after college, Doug worked as an actor in plenty of Off, Off-Off, and waaaay Off Broadway productions, all the while performing in clubs like CBGB’s and The Bitter End with RnB band, “The Shakers.” Doug was also one-half of the NYC based acoustic singer/songwriter duo “Common Cents,” who released two CD’s on their own independent label and toured extensively throughout the Northeast and Midwest at colleges, clubs, coffeehouses and festivals.

While Doug worked VO in New York, he didn’t start pursuing his Voice-Over career full throttle until moving to Los Angeles in the late 90’s. After putting a demo together and landing representation, he started booking VO work in radio and TV commercials, narration, animation, interactive games and promos. If you haven’t done so already, please return to the audio links page to listen to some of the work Doug has recorded over the years.

Still active in music, Doug released his solo CD, “Right Onto The Track” in the end of 2005. Check out www.douggochmanmusic.com for more info about that release. Doug continues to play local shows in and around the Los Angeles area as a solo/acoustic performer, as a guitar player in his old band, The Shakers www.myspace.com/theshakersinla , and as a bass player with country/rocker, Cynthia Ford.