Michael Peterson's Modeling Jobs, Acting Auditions and Additional Experience

About Me: PROFESSIONALLY: As a performer my work has been in ACTING and SINGING, but I also have substantial credit as a DIRECTOR, PRODUCER, CONDUCTOR and work in some films. I uploaded a recent short film, “The Stage” - (May 2011), produced by Taylor University. I was asked to take part in this Spring 2011 film, based on work I did for the universities film program in last years production of "Re-launch", which is also in my video portfolio here at Explore Talent. My theatrical background includes set design, set building, prop acquisition and construction, costuming, script editing, rewriting, orchestra rehearsal/conducting, vocal coaching and vocal maintenance of singers during a performance run, as well as other behind the scenes preparation. As a musician/singer/vocal coach I am Owner / Instructor of PETERSON STUDIO OF VOICE. (Lafayette, Indiana and Frankfort, Indiana). My degree in Choral/Vocal music is from Indiana University, where I studied with distinguished professor of voice Margaret Harshaw and Marcia Baldwin (both were rostered with the Metropolitan Opera, NY). Some of my students have taken state and national awards in voice and acting. In 2010, to brush up on my vocal work and vocal teaching, I studied with Roy Samuelsen, an internationally known operatic bass/baritone who retired from the Indiana University voice faculty. I believe that those who teach, should be able to DO, and should continue to learn and work in their music and theatrical fields. Besides being a singer, actor and stage director with experience as a choral conductor and a number of years filling these various roles in summer stock as an orchestral conductor, I spent seven years as a zone chairman for the INDIANA CHORAL DIRECTORS ASSOCIATION as the ALL STATE CHOIR ZONE CHAIRMAN (zone 3B - 25 school districts). Along with the auditioning responsibility, I conducted the rehearsals leading up to state performances in Indianapolis for the mixed choir from those who auditioned in the zone. My wife, owner and instructor of PETERSON STUDIO OF DANCE, has joined me in judging various county fair talent shows in Central Indiana, and some JUNIOR MISS STATE FINALS over the years, because we are both committed to education, coaching and talent of all ages. I am slated to take part in a Spec Commercial for the Fort Wayne Railroad Historical Society, Inc. on July 2nd, 2011, the date of my most recent update of my talent information and resume here on ExploreTalent.com. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ADDITIONALLY: I am a voice coach and talent scout with TALENT FUSION AGENCY in Indianapolis. We are always seeking models, actors, singers, dancers and performers of all ages, while making contacts across the nation in various markets. As such, we do not place talent locally, but instead provide talent for national showcases in which directors and producers from TV, film, recording, Broadway and other performance venues come to audition the talent pool we, and other agencies like ours, bring to each 4 day showcase. You could think of us as providing a multi-course buffet of talent for the casting directors and producers who come to each showcase. In this way, we provide the broadest market in which to display or exhibit your talent or talents. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ TALENT FUSION is affiliated with Global Stars Network, and has a reputation of providing the participating cadre of casting directors and upper level entertainment professionals in attendance from around the world with the best prepared and trained talent for fashion/commercial runway, film, television, print photography modeling, recording executives with actors, models, singers and dancers of all ages and types. In our one year association, we have already received the Agency of the Year Award twice (November 2010 and May 2011) for the talent we’ve introduced to the visiting agents, casting directors and producers from around the globe who attend the four day auditions cycles, which recently have been 4 days aboard cruise ships out of Tampa, FLA or Los Angeles, CA which have chartered salons and stage where the auditions are nearly continuous for registered talent. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ You can contact me at singa2oon@sbcglobal.net, find me on Facebook or my Talent Fusion Agency e-mail – “mike”@talent-fusion.com - without the quotation marks or the space. For TALENT FUSIONS web page, point your browser to- http://talent-fusion.com/main.html ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ VOCAL PERFORMANCE and VOCAL METHOD: My music degree and studies include singing and coaching singers in Italian, French, German, English of course, and dialects. My personal resume includes musical theater, opera (performing with the Indianapolis Opera from 1998 through 2004), pop, jazz, musical theater, C&W, gospel, and other contemporary styles. The method I teach has been proven to protect the voice, give greater power to projection, and increase the years of performing for a singer. Most of my directing has been for stage, but my acting includes voice over work, character voices, and film with a good deal of experience on the stage myself. In my bag of tricks, I have been a children's theater director and stage presence coach for ages 9 and up. Several of my students have performed regionally in musical theater, and in showcases, receiving high praise, success and recognition. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ GARCIA METHOD OF VOICE: I am an instructor in the Garcia method of voice, which had it's beginning with Manuel Garcia 1775 - 1832,(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_Garcia(tenor) continued through his son, also Manuel Garcia although my line of instruction came through his daughter Pauline Viardot (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauline_Viardot) and through Anne Eugenie Schoen-Rene who was with Julliard School of Music. Through Viardot and Schoen-Rene, the techniques were passed to a multitude of operatic stars of the last century, including Margaret Harshaw who sang more Wagnerian Opera roles from Contralto through Soprano than any other female opera singer in history. Some histories claim her beginnings as a mezzo, but her first role at the Met was as the contralto Norn in Ring des Nibelungen. For more information on her career and thoughts on singing as well as acting, you can peruse an interview of her from 1994. This grand lady of the old Metropolitan Opera, with a fierce intensity to pass the technique to students passed away in 1997. I count myself lucky to be one of only two education majors Miss Harshaw ever accepted into her voice studio during her tenure at Indiana University. For the interview with broadcaster Bruce Duffie - see// http://www.bruceduffie.com/harshaw.html ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ OTHER PERSONAL EDUCATIONAL ENDEAVORS / JAPANESE LANGUAGE: I live in Indiana and taught Japanese as a day job, along with my vocal coaching in the evenings, from 1995-2010, in a district where I was the corporation department chair of world languages. Being highly energetic, during that time I was teaching Japanese, I served on the board of directors for the National Council of Japanese Language Teachers, also serving one year as the president of that organization. I learned Japanese when I lived n Japan for 2 years as a missionary. I shifted gears back to my original degree of voice and performing by taking over a choral / vocal program in a Lafayette, Indiana school district for the 2010-2011 school year. I still teach Japanese as contracted, and will be doing a one week workshop for youth ages 8-18 for Purdue Extension Services in Frankfort, Indiana in June 2011. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

Short Resume: The Stage – in late March/early April 2011, I was privileged to be in a short film produced by members of the Taylor University film department. Featuring Tamara Peachy, Mark Callaway (a friend of mine with whom I worked in Talent Fusion in a Global Stars Network Cruise) and myself as three people drawn together in a community stage production,. My work in Relaunch last spring prompted the director, Josh Giuliano, to contact me through the producer Chase Moore, to ask if I would be interested in playing the role of PJ Robert. It is a tale of how some people put on a character in an effort to cope with society. Jolene Supreme, the stage name of the main character, has Asperger's Syndrome and her father - played by my friend Mark Callaway, perseveres out of love for his daughter, no matter 'who' she chooses to be. I am blessed to play the role of PJ Roberts (think of this name with a French accent), the author of the play, and the director who is more than he appears to be as well.

Cast in secondary role of "Homeless Man" for feature length film "Shattered People". Filming has been delayed for the Indianapolis cast several times since the summer of 2010, due to scheduling of crews for the casts in Washington, D.C, New York, and Chicago. We are told that works continues moving ahead, but the last official meeting we had with about 100 members of the cast and crew for the Indianapolis shoot was held in lat June of 2010. http://www.shatteredpeople.com/info.html


Role of Jennings in "Relaunch" - a short independent film set in the 1960's involving NASA and the small Jennings Aeronautics firm. Shot primarily in Berne, Indiana over two weekends in April 2010. In Spring 2011, the producer, Kelsy Getzin sent word that "Relaunch" won several awards at the Envision Film Festival, which is a Taylor University festival. It won Best Picture, Audience Choice, and Best Liberal Arts Film.

TNT Gaming XBox 360: English and Japanese. I was asked to translate the lines from English into Japanese, and record the voice of Lord Feston for the game which is to be released in late 2009 or spring of 2010. Script by Travon Kemel Santerre Copyright - TnT Gaming LLC 2009


Participant and award winner in the May 2009 ARTS showcase in Chicago, Illinois 29-31 May 2009.
Featured in the talent show for vocal solo and monologue, winning 2nd place, 3rd place and honorable mention in events which included cold reading and improvisation.

Indianapolis Opera

Specific Operas in which I performed with the Indianapolis Opera - 1998 to 2004
* 2003 - 2004 Rigoletto * 2002-2003 La Traviata, Die Fledermaus (Soloist, Chorus & Dancer), La Boheme * 2001 - 2002 Aida (High Priest), Samson & Delilah * 1999 - 2001 Tosca, Faust * 1998 -1999 The Barber of Seville, The Flying Dutchman, Macbeth

Musical Theater
Professional /Summer Stock/Community Theater
2008 & 2009 - The Mikado (Director/Producer/Vocal Coach (on DVD)
2008 Footloose the Musical, ROLE: Reverend Moore
Lend Me a Tenor - ROLE: Tito Merelli (Midwestern Premier reprise role)
Children of Eden-Footlight Musicals (Piano 3) Indianapolis
South Pacific - ROLE: Emile de Becque
Wonderful Town - Orchestra Director Red Barn Summer Stock (RBSS)
Is There Life After High School - Orchestra Director RBSS
Cabaret- Orchestra Director - RBSS
Guys and Dolls- Orchestra Director - RBSS
Lend Me a Tenor -ROLE: Tito Merelli - Midwestern Premier (on DVD)
Brigadoon- Orchestra Director, -ROLE: Mr. Lundy
Indianapolis Arts Chorale - Soloist
1986 Dick Wolfsie A.M. Indiana - Solo
An Evening with Sondheim - Theater in the Woods - Indianapolis
Regency Vocal / Advanced Champion
The Student Prince- Director - Shawnee Summer Stock (SSS)
Damn Yankees - Director - SSS
The King and I - Director - SSS
Camelot = Director - SSS
South Pacific -Role: Emile de Becque - Jackson Hole, Wyoming

Vocal Studies:
INDIANA UNIVERSITY - Margaret Harshaw-Met Opera / Marcia Baldwin-Met Opera. 2010 - vocal study with Roy Samuelsen - Norwegian Bass, IU voice professor emeritus.


Straight Acting Performances
(Red Barn Summer Stock Theater = RBSS)
(Shawnee Summer STock Theater = SSS)
(Clinton County Civic Theater = CCCT)
Disorder in the Court-Judge Titus Clapham CCCT
I'll Be Back After Midnight-George - RBSS
On Golden Pond-The Postman - RBSS
A Thousand Clowns-Leo Herman, (Chuckles) -RBSS
Barefoot in the Park-Mr. Velasco - RBSS
Never Too Late - Harry Lambert - SSS
Mousetrap - Christopher Wren - SSS

Other Productions (Director)
Clinton County Children's Theater - 1997-2003
Indiana All State Choir - 1988-1995 ICDA & ISSMA
Zone 3B Chairman - Rehearsal Conductor
The Man Who Came to Dinner - Director
Kiss me Kate, Director
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum- Stage Director
Man of La Mancha - Director
Oliver - Stage Director
Annie Get Your Gun - Stage Director
Anything Goes - Stage Director
The Sound of Music - Stage Director
South Pacific - Director- Bloomfield
You're A Good Man Charlie Brown -Director
Fiddler on the Roof -Director
Harvey, Director

Special Honor
*US Army Europe - 118 Performances - Army Commendation Medal - Soldiers Magazine
Education and Training
Masters Degree -Indiana University, Choral Vocal Concentration Bachelors Degree - Indiana University, BME Choral / General Music, Japanese, German, Music Theory, Orchestration, Arranging and Composition, Piano, Conducting, Voice, General Music Methods, Opera Theater, IU Singing Hoosiers, Arts Administration, Music Education and Theater & Stage Make-up. Choreography and Choral Techniques. Opera Direction with: Nathaniel Merrill, Ross Allen, Hans Busch & Jack Eddelman, Study of Boris Goldovksy Opera Staging

Dialects: British, Cockney, Upper Class, Italian, Varied US dialects, Japanese (fluent in the language and can do a passable English as spoken by a Japanese person dialect). My ear is good, and I am a quick study for accents.

Voice Over Experience in English and Japanese. Script translation into Japanese, and experience as a script writer, editor.