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Alan's voice demo has recently been re-edited and remastered. It includes seperate sections for Commercial, Promo, Narration, and Animation voiceover.
Alan's voiceover demo reel contains a variety of reads, and a number of different characters, all of which are voiced by Alan. You can listen to a one minute excerpt from Alan's reel here (mp3, approx 440k).
A newly updated version will be posted here in late May.
Casting persons may e-mail. requests for a copy of the complete demo on CD.
Alan's resume is available here as an Adobe Acrobat PDF file (50k)
Alan's IMDB page is available here
ALAN SEMOK is represented by KOLSTEIN TALENT AGENCY
RECENT PROJECTS
ALAN OFF-BROADWAY
Signature Theatre Company's world premiere production of PARADISE PARK a new play by Charles Mee, has just completed a successful two month run at the Peter Norton Space, NYC. The production was directed by Daniel Fish and featured Vanessa Aspillaga, Satya Bhabha, Veanne Cox, Gian-Murray Gianino, William Jackson Harper, Christopher McCann, Paul Mullins, Alan Semok, and Laurie Williams.
Read a critic's review of PARADISE PARK.
OTHER RECENT DOINGS
ALAN SEMOK, PhD, Fine Arts (Honoris Causa)
In 2007, Alan was the proud recipient of an honorary PhD in Fine Arts from Buena Vista University, Iowa.
That same day, he delivered the commencment address to the 2007 Graduating Class.
ALAN ON THE BIG SCREEN
Alan has a featured role in the feature film SAVAGE FAITH (aka SINS OF THE FATHER), directed by Larry Cardino and shot on location around central New Jersey and New York. Alan portrayed police detective captain "Dennis McCarthy", on the investigative trail of a murder involving a Catholic preist.
Among the several other films Alan has worked in recently is FORTUNE, directed by Eric Lin.
A brief clip from FORTUNE is available here as a Quicktime video (7.5mb file)
The movie will open in a new browser window.
(The Quicktime Player for both Windows and Macintosh is available here)
ALAN ON DVD
Be sure to watch for Alan in the role of "Professor Parlepancia" in the Artisan Entertainment feature film DUMMY (starring Academy Award winner Adrien Brody) available on DVD and currentl frequent syndicated airings on television.
More info on Alan's other unique contributions to the production of "DUMMY" appears further down this page.
ALAN as "Larry"
Alan has lately been seen in Las Vegas
and Charlotte NC for ACTION ENTERTAINMENT at several NASCAR and
AHRA events, appearing as the legendary frizzy haired stooge,
Larry Fine. In addition to continuing in-person appearances
as the official and authorized middle stooge, since 1995 Alan
has provided the 
voices of both Larry AND Moe of The Three Stooges®, for select projects under the umbrella of C-3 Entertainment (Glendale, CA), which is the company originally set up by The Three Stooges themselves in 1959. C-3 continues to administer all rights to the Stooge characters.
ALAN ON TELEVISION
HISTORY DETECTIVE
Alan (wearing his "other" hat as the internationally known "Dummy Doctor") appeared as a "guest expert" on an episode of the PBS series HISTORY DETECTIVES. The program segment revolves around an interesting search concerning the origins and provenance of a 90 year old ventriloquial dummy, purporting to be directly related to Edgar Bergen's famous "Charlie McCarthy". You'll have to tune in to see the results of this splintery genealogy search......check your local PBS listings for frequent repeat airings in the coming months.
also on P B S...
Alan's AMERICAN EXPERIENCE episode entitled THE
DUEL, which was originally broadcast nationally
on PBS stations in the early part of 2000, continues to air on
PBS stations around the country in frequent repeat showings. (July 2004 marked the 200th anniversary
of the famous duel between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr).
In this film (shot on location in May of 1999), Alan portrays Vice President AARON BURR in re-enactments of the events leading up to the famous duel with Hamilton (in which Hamilton died) The first person narratives (taken from Burr's own writings) are read by actor Brian Dennehy. Be sure to check local listings for exact time and channel for frequent repeat broadcasts!
A brief trailer for the film is available for viewing here as a Quicktime video (7.2mb file). The file will open in a new browserwindow.
(The Quicktime Player for both Windows and Macintosh is available here)
(A videotape of the complete program is available for purchase directly from PBS)
TV and RADIO COMMERCIALS
Listen for Alan in a current series of national radio spots for Brother Electronics, as spokesperson for the Brother P-Touch Electronic Labeling System. Alan has been a commercial spokesperson in several of their radio campaigns since November of 2002.
Throughout most of 2007, Alan was featured in TV commercials for LEVITZ FURNITURE. The spot was shown in the New York area as well as the Pacific Northwest and California.
Alan was also recently on television with three commercials: the first is a commercial for WENDY's RESTAURANTS (in Spanish!) , in which he portrays a corporate C.E.O. with stage fright attempting to give a company report to a group of perplexed employees.
Other recent TV spots are a pair of network promos for COMEDY CENTRAL, one of which is available for viewing here as a Quicktime video (2 mb file)
(The Quicktime Player for both Windows and Macintosh is available here)
Alan has also recently appeared on television and in theatres across the UK and Europe in a commercial spot for M&M's, appearing with the commercial's two stars, RED and YELLOW.
Alan's past commercial credits include spots for Total Raisin Bran (available for viewing as a Quicktime file here) and spots for Vicks Sinex, KFC, Wise Potato Chips, Ritz Crackers, and TV Today Magazine .
(The Quicktime Player for both Windows and Macintosh is available here)
From 1989 to 1996, Alan provided the voice of "Tex Boy" in the award winning and now classic children's TV series, SHINING
TIME STATION, which was seen nationally in first run and repeat episodes for 9 years on
PBS, and later seen in reruns on cable TV, first on the NICKELODEON channel and subsequently on the FOX FAMILY CHANNEL.
The show featured George Carlin, Ringo Starr, Didi Conn, Thomas The Tank Engine, and The FLEXITOONS as "The
Juke Box Band.".
Other past TV credits include The WEEKLY READER series, K-IDS TV (on Showtime) as the voice of "Buddy Bear" and guest cameos on the D.J. KAT Show (Fox) and THE BUGS BUNNY 50th Anniversary Special (CBS).
Alan may also be seen in a starring role in a special film for the AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY entitled THE RIDICULOUS HISTORY OF TOBACCO. It is available in many school and public libraries, and still available for order from the American Cancer Society as well.
Alan lent his
internationally recognized expertise in the field of ventriloquism
to yet another feature film project, entitled DUMMY. In
addition to designing and constructing the film's title character,
he served as the ventriloquial technical advisor on the project
and spent several weeks coaching the film's star (academy award
winner Adrien Brody) in the techniques of ventriloquism and puppet
manipulation. The film was shot on location in and around New
York City. Alan also appears in the film. The film opened in New
York and Los Angeles in September, and has now been released on
DVD homevideo. The film is distributed by Artisan Entertainment
(a division of Lion's Gate).
"VARIETY" covers "DUMMY"
Alan's picture taken at the premiere of DUMMY (alongside the film's title character...his creation), made VARIETY's September 15th 2003 issue...see the photo and article here! Alan was brought in by the film's producers and director to personally teach the art of ventriloquism to Adrien Brody for this production.
Alan has also been in the recording studio on a number of exciting musical projects, including two for composer and musical director PETER JONES (protege of and archivist for the great musical theatre living legend Stephen Sondheim) ; in the first, a new musical adaptation of PEYTON PLACE, Alan portrayed the deceased "Lucas" , revisiting his wife in a ghostly musical vision.
The most recent Peter Jones project was a new work (in collaboration with Dianne Hinson) entitled DO-JANE, featuring Alan as a drill seargent in what could very well go down in musical theatre history as the most surreal 8 minutes of show music ever recorded!
Still in the works is FISHFACE (working title).... a collection of original music by Alan Semok & Joe Barbarotta which has been a "work in progress" for more than 20 years, with very limited distribution of various versions.
Yet another limited edition release with some new material (this time on Compact Disc) will appear on the AEOLIPILE label sometime soon.
(no flying pig jokes, please...)
Alan is known internationally as THE DUMMY DOCTOR.
e-mail
for Alan may be sent to asemok@mac.com
Go to
Alan's resume/headshots page
(Adobe PDF format)