Bob Malos — Daugherty Minneapolis
Meet Bob Malos. He has been with Daugherty Business Solutions as a software engineering consultant for three months. He is currently working on Java development with an emphasis on full-stack design and implementation. He may be designing, building and testing code, but he hasn’t always been a developer. In fact, prior to joining Team Daugherty Bob was a voice and stage actor for eight years.
Bob discovered his talent for acting while he was studying computer programming at Michigan State. In his free time, Bob would take part in the theatre department productions. As he became more comfortable on stage, some of Bob’s friends, who also happened to be professional voice actors, suggested that he make a demo and send it to an agent. Bob kept that advice in mind when he began working as a Data Warehouse Analyst for the University of Minnesota and for the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities. After fifteen years of working in technology he made a change. Bob became a full-time actor.
From 2008 until he began at Daugherty, Bob built quite an impressive resume. He was the narrator for the Emmy-winning 2010 documentary “Troubled Waters: A Mississippi River Story.” His voice can be heard on several of Subaru’s web videos. He recorded four audiobooks that are now available on Audible. His on stage productions included over 100 plays in professional theatres in the East and the Midwest. In fact, Bob’s work was recognized in 2006 when he was named Best Male Actor by the Twin Cities publication “City Pages.”
Q&A
Q: What is your favorite project that you have worked on?
A: I narrated a one-hour University of Minnesota documentary in 2010 that was broadcast in primetime on the local PBS station. It was called Troubled Waters: A Mississippi River Story. This documentary was focused on the factors that cause a “dead zone” in the Gulf of Mexico. The director — Larkin McPhee — has worked with narrators like Susan Sarandon, Hal Holbrook and Meryl Streep. It was quite an honor to work with her and I really believed in the product as well. It was a great thrill to be watching in primetime and hear my voice doing the narration.
Q: What is your favorite type of project to do (documentary, on-stage, etc.)?
A: I’ve always loved theatre and I’ve done a wide range of characters. Many of the characters that I have portrayed have been very strong and intimidating which is odd because I’m the opposite of that. I once played Captain Wolf Larsen in a stage adaptation of The Sea Wolf. Although I enjoyed doing stage work, I also loved going into a studio and narrating whatever was put in front of me. One of the jobs that I had was to narrate some videos that were on the Subaru website. During another project I narrated all of the audio for a six-million-dollar Science Museum of Minnesota exhibit about living in space. That was great fun.
Q: What is your dream voice work project? Or have you already done it?
A: My dream would be doing a series like Nova or Frontline. The opportunity to be able to record those sorts of scripts regularly is really appealing.
Q: To give Team Daugherty a better understanding of the time commitment that this takes, how long does a one-hour voice project take to complete?
A: Well, the documentary I did in 2010 was a one-hour show with about 30 minutes of narration. That took around four hours in the studio because the director would ask for different takes of some lines until she felt they were perfect. At home, it probably took me 10 hours or more to produce one hour of an audiobook. The top professionals can do that much faster, of course.
You can learn more about Bob and even here a sample of his golden pipes by visiting his website here!
