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Cliff Roles
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- Sarasota
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- Occupation
- Radio/TV Host, Actor, Photographer, Translator, Features Writer, MC/Auctioneer
- About Me
- - Actor at, among others, S.W. Florida's Players of Sarasota, Venice Theatre, Manatee Players, Golden Apple Dinner Theatre and the Backlot.
- Award-winning radio talk-show host. I have a weekly live radio show calld "Cliff On Sundays" on 1280 AM WTMY from 12 to 2 pm every Sunday.
Plus, I podcast my radio interviews through my website cliffroles.com, through RadioSRQ.com (iTunes), through Facebook and regularly through Creative Loafing's Blog 941.
- Features writer for Scene Magazine, the oldest magazine on Florida’s Southwest Coast, so be sure to watch out for my column every month!
- Professional photographer:
Professional and lifestyle portfolios, events, head-shots, family portraits, weddings, house pets - all at a very reasonable price, and we’ll take photos for as long as it takes - it’s that simple!
So contact me for a session at (941) 685-9017 or mail me at cliff@cliffroles.com - I promise to make you look FABULOUS!
-I'm a professional German>English translator, a narrator, an Audiobook reader, and I also enjoy doing voiceovers and TV commercials.
- Sophisticated, non-regional English accent, and am able to do voice work in regional British accents (London (e.g. cockney), Yorkshire, Irish, Welsh, for example), as well as French, German, Russian, Australian and South African accents. I speak fluent English (native), French and German.
- Master of Ceremonies/Auctioneer at community and corporate events and fundraisers.
- Ringmaster of Circus Sarasota in 2006 and 2007.
Awards:
- “Best Local Actor” (3rd year in succession!), “Best Media Personality” and “Best Mixed Message”, Creative Loafing 2009
- Readers Choice "Best Local Charismatic Actor 2009", SRQ Magazine
- Best Emcee/Auctioneer 2009, Scene Magazine
- Top three, Best Local Actor 2008 and 2009, Sarasota Magazine
- Readers' Choice winner 2008, Best Supporting Actor, Sarasota Herald Tribune
- Readers' Choice "Best Local Actor 2008" and "Best Suncoast Enthusiast 2008", Creative Loafing
- Sarasota County Arts Council 2007 Arts Leadership Award for Media.
-Best Suncoast Enthusiast and Best Local Actor 2007, Creative Loafing
- Best Suncoast Enthusiast, 2nd place Best Radio DJ, Best Local Actor - Creative Loafing, 2007
- Recipient of the Sarasota County Arts Council 2007 Arts Leadership Award for Media.
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- The things I like most about the Sarasota/Manatee area
Why I Love Sarasota
By Cliff Roles (as published in SCENE Magazine, June 2008)
About eight years ago I was going through one of those "male-menopause-midlife-crisis" phases, where nothing and no-one seemed to be right for me. My marriage had gone pear-shaped, I was burnt out from 16 years in the rock 'n roll business, and my people skills desperately needed honing.
I decided to change pace, job, surroundings and attitude. I became a translator and started traveling the world. Greece, Mexico, Italy, Switzerland ... I eventually landed on Florida's East Coast and, in keeping with my mood, bought a Harley Davidson motorcycle (I mean, who wouldn't?). And on February 17 2001, my birthday, I rode into Sarasota and parked my bike outside the Columbia Restaurant on St. Armand's. I bought myself an ice-cream at Scoop Daddy's, walked slowly around the Circle, and knew instantly that I was home. I met my wife Maria that evening, and within 18 months I had moved out of my flat in Hamburg, Germany and had become a resident of Sarasota.
I have fallen in love with Sarasota, and Sarasota has warmly opened to my embrace. Of course I now regularly sing songs of praise about its beaches, climate, restaurants, arts and culture possibilities and entrepreneurial skills, but it's Sarasota's underlying feeling of pride and passion that gets me. Visit our Farmer's Market on a Saturday morning, walk Main Street to Five Points during Sarasota's Reading Festival or Arts Day, stroll Siesta Key on an Arts and Crafts weekend, and you'll realize why we are the envy of everyone that doesn't live here year round. Those wonderful retirees who have moved here from "up North" are Sarasota's most valuable asset; they help our community to flourish, they tend to our parks and gardens, they finance our arts organizations and they keep our restaurants in business. A smile and a thank-you on their lips, they are always ready to tell you their story: how long they've been here, how they discovered our paradise, where they are from and what they love about living here. Their story, yes. That's what we are - a plethora, a multitude, myriads of fabulous, fantastic stories - a collection of big hearts worn on big sleeves.
Why I love Sarasota? Because of its people, that's why - I needed to come here to regain my faith in human nature.
Thank you, People of Sarasota - I think I'll stick around.
- My Interests & Hobbies
My wife and best friend Maria, radio/TV, acting, writing features ....
Theatre, opera, ballet, symphony
... and my dog Sam.
- My Favorite Local Restaurant
- Sam Snead's Tavern, Shakespeare's Pub, Word of Mouth.
- My Favorite Place to Experience the area the Way Locals Do
St Armands Circle, Farmers Market, Island Park
- Personal Website
- http://www.cliffroles.com
- High School
- John Ruskin Grammar School, Shirley, Croydon, Surrey
- College/training
- City of Birmingham Polytechnic
- Favorite Movie
- All Harry Potter, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Ratatouille, Sweeny Todd, Forrest Gump, Little Shop of Horrors, Mr. Holland's Opus, Blades Of Glory, A Mighty Wind, Wedding Crashers, 40 Year-Old Virgin, Anchorman Ron Burgundy, Old School, Waiting for Guffman, This is Spinal Tap, all Marx Brothers, Lord of the Rings, West Side Story, Oklahoma, Guys and Dolls, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Oliver, Music Man, Lion King, Finding Nemo, The Color Purple, Carousel, all Austin Powers, Mickey Blue Eyes, Love actually, Notting Hill, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Shrek I & II, all Monty Python
- Favorite Artist
- Music:
Annie Haslam and Renaissance, John Miles, Alan Parson's Project. ASIA, ELP, Curved Air, WHO, Carpenters, Barbara Dickson, ABBA, YES, Bon Jovi, Def Leppard, Billy Joel, INXS, Tears for Fears, Metallica, Barry Manilow, Celine Dion, Elton John, Oleta Adams, Sting, Lionel Ritchie, Seal, Beatles, Anggun, Chess, Candide, Les Miserables and countless other musical soundtracks.
Television:
House, The Big Bang Theory, 30 Rock, Samantha Who?, Aliens in America, Back To You, Hotel Babylon, Notes From The Underbelly, Chuck, Life, Moonlight, Ghost Whisperer, Las Vegas, 24, Boston Legal, Scrubs, Two and a Half Men, Men in Trees, Nip/Tuck, Rescue Me, Brothers and Sisters, The Unit, ER, Criminal Minds, CSI, CSI Miami, Mad Men, Burn Notice, October Road, The Dead Zone, Saving Grace, The Closer, Entourage, Ab-Fab, anything French and Saunders, anything Fry and Laurie
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- http://www.linkedin.com/home
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- How I heard about AnythingArts.com
- From Rick, Peg and Christine; I'm proud to be one of the first members and a contributing writer of AnythingArts.com!
Sarasota British Club / Meet MingleCliff!
They are always looking out for new members, so if you feel a hankering towards us Brits or are curious as to our history and heritage, culinary delights and idiosyncracies, join the club and get to know a fine group (I heartily recommend their Christmas "do", for example!).
The club has its own website and newsletter, so bookmark one and subscribe to the other:
http://sarasotabritishclub.com
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GOT A MINUTE?, our 60-second Play Festival at the Players, Sept 4 - 6 2009
Every one of the 60× 1-minute plays performed at GOT A MINUTE? this Sept. will have a producer, a person who pays 75 dollars so that their play - and all the proceeds over the three days - will be dedicated to cancer awareness and to the Moffitt Cancer Care Foundation. Be a GOT A MINUTE? producer and dedicate your play to a loved one.
Phone 358-7675 or eclectic_tc@comcast.net; and buy your GAM? tickets at 365-2494!
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Phone 358-7675 or eclectic_tc@comcast.net; and buy your GAM? tickets at 365-2494!
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Posted on July 28, 2009 at 6:30am —
Monday, May 18: Please assemble at 10 am in the reception area of the Holiday Inn, Lido Beach 233 Be…
Monday, May 18: Please assemble at 10 am in the reception area of the
Holiday Inn,
Lido Beach
233 Ben Franklin Drive
Sarasota FL 34236
Men and women, any type, for lobby scene.
You will be needed pretty much for the full day (estimated wrap 10:30-11pm). There are some we can send home after our first scene, and others as we complete certain scenes, but the rest will need to stay.
EXTRAS are as follows:
1. NY Businessmen Age 40s-50s. Male. Corporate types. Must be comfortable appearing in sc… Continue
Holiday Inn,
Lido Beach
233 Ben Franklin Drive
Sarasota FL 34236
Men and women, any type, for lobby scene.
You will be needed pretty much for the full day (estimated wrap 10:30-11pm). There are some we can send home after our first scene, and others as we complete certain scenes, but the rest will need to stay.
EXTRAS are as follows:
1. NY Businessmen Age 40s-50s. Male. Corporate types. Must be comfortable appearing in sc… Continue
Posted on May 17, 2009 at 1:22am —
The Jonestown Defense - indie movie feature - Audition details
Auditions for "The Jonestown Defense" will be held on Thursday, May 7th as an open call from 1 - 4pm.
Callbacks will be on May 8th.
You must be available for shooting at Sarasota locations between May 12 and May 19, 2009.
Location:
770 St. Judes Drive North.
Longboat Key, FL 34228
Where spoken lines are involved, you will be asked to read from sides.
Please bring your headshot, resume/bio with contact numbers, as well as possible conflict details. These may not be returned.
If you are cast… Continue
Posted on May 6, 2009 at 8:00am —
"That would be harsher punishment for parole violators, Stan … and world peace."
As American as apple pie: "Smile" provides a platform for some musical-theater stars of tomorrow, but also gives rise to thought.
As I was driving home from tonight's Opening Night of "Smile", the musical by Marvin Hamlisch and Howard Ashman that deals with the "American Young Miss" beauty pageant of 1985, a couple of thoughts went through my mind: I was impressed with the cast's obvious hard work to bring this performance to the Players' stage; I "discovered" (for me) some great new… Continue
Posted on April 17, 2009 at 3:00am —
SCENE UpClose tonight at 8 pm on Channel 21!
This evening I'll be hosting SCENE UpClose TV from 8 - 8.30 pm on BLAB TV, Sarasota Local Channel 21. In addition to talking about various new events going on this week in town and looking at the new issue of SCENE Magazine, I'll be welcoming as my guests Leslie Jones & Stacey Corley from the Junior League as well as Philip Tavill & Angie Stringer of Children First.
Don't worry if you can't see the show live - the edited clips will be available for viewing throug… Continue
Don't worry if you can't see the show live - the edited clips will be available for viewing throug… Continue
Posted on April 14, 2009 at 9:26am —
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We will be off to jolly olde England to see family and friends on Sat20th or Sun21st Dec and won't be back until Jan10th or 11th, so if it is before then I can do the show. No I do not really have any recordings of singing Christmas songs- I was really thinking about making a Christmas CD for next year. Yes, I did see you comments about Voices of Light, Thank You! It was really wonderful joining forces with everyone. Isn't Richard Storm a gem? And Joe is wonderful to work with, I will be singing with the Southwest Fl Symphony in Jan- will be singing Poulenc's Gloria. Jan 24-25 at Barbara B. Mann in Ft. Meyers. By the way, who does your web site? Are you able to update it yourself or is it someone else who does?
Bises,
Michelle
I saw a photo of your dog, he is adorable! Will you be in Jolly olde England for the holidays?
Best,
Michelle
I imagine you'll be at the Arts Council Anniversary luncheon. If you are, I'll see you there, I'm part of the entertainment.
Beverly
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