Allison Hagendorf

Allison Hagendorf is an on-camera personality, voice actor, and music consultant.

Early Sony Music

Hagendorf began her music career when she became Sony's College Marketing Representative at Penn State University, where she was awarded the highly coveted title “College Rep of the Year” for her innovative marketing ideas involving her creative collegiate promotions. Upon graduation, Hagendorf secured a position at Sony’s Columbia Records, where she immediately impressed and then convinced Matt Pinfield -- her teenage idol, music guru, and former MTV VJ -- to give her the opportunity to serve as his personal assistant, so that he could become her mentor. Her persistence paid off as she became Matt’s assistant and then coordinator for the next three years in Columbia’s A&R department, where she oversaw the coordination of a dozen albums for artists such as David Bowie, Cypress Hill, Coheed & Cambria, and Kenna.

Epic A&R

After working closely with Pinfield at Columbia Records, Hagendorf went out on her own to serve as an A&R Manager for Epic Records in New York City. At Epic, she recruited new talent for the label and oversaw the production of albums by artists Automatic Loveletter, Bamboo Shoots, The Fashion, and Lamb of God (whose single “Redneck” [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redneck_%28song%29] received a Grammy nomination for "Best Metal Performance"). [http://www.metalunderground.com/news/details.cfm?newsid=23189] [lambofgod.tv] .

Voice Actor

Inspired by Pinfield’s voice and hosting work, Hagendorf assertively began to pursue her career as a voice actor and host, in addition to doing A&R. After performing numerous spots for TV and radio for record releases, she signed a deal with Don Buchwald & Associates [ [http://www.buchwald.com Don Buchwald and Associates, Inc ] ] in 2005 where she became the new voice for TJ Maxx’s national radio campaign and has supplied the voice for “HBO Taxi Cab Confessions,” “Lady Speed Stick,” “Degrassi High,” “Talk Sex with Sue Johanson,” “Dish TV,” “MTV Spankin’ New Music Week,” “MTV The Real World,” “MTV Battle of the Videos,” “The MTV Video Music Awards,” and most recently, the national TV spots for “Verizon Vcast” and "Jergens." Allison also narrated the monthly show Media Lab Shorts Uploaded” on the Independent Film Channel (IFC) [ [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2369439/ Allison Hagendorf ] ] and currently provides the voice for the majority of the promos heard on the Oxygen Network^{http://oxygen.com/} such as The Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency [http://www.oxygen.com/janice/] , [ [http://www.oxygen.com/tvshows/torianddean/ "Homepage on the Oxygen Website "] ] and [http://www.oxygen.com/TvShows/DeionPilar/ Official site] .

On-camera host

As for hosting, Hagendorf became the music spokesperson for Amp’d Mobile and conducted on-camera interviews with bands such as “Death Cab for Cutie” and “The Flaming Lips” at the annual music industry conference, SXSW, in Austin. Hagendorf then went on to serve as on-camera host for BaebleTV’s Green Room available on baeblemusic.com [ [http://www.baeblemusic.com Baeble Music – live concerts. emerging bands. music videos ] ] . For BaebleMusic, she interviewed both established artists such as Perry Farrell, as well as emerging bands such as Ben Kweller, Blonde Redhead, Ra Ra Riot, and Art Brut. Currently, Hagendorf serves as on-camera host for Playboy Mobile [ [http://www.mspbm.com Miss Playboy Mobile ] ] and Playboy's Rock the Rabbit programs where she emcees and interviews the musicians and celebrities at the events, and produces the segments for the Playboy website. Most recently, Hagendorf had the opportunity to help launch Steve Madden Music [ [http://www.stevemaddenmusic.com :: Steve Madden Music :: ] ] , where she hosts monthly in-store performances and interviews the performing artists for the internet TV series, Steve Madden Scene.

External links

* [http://luminafilms.com/clients/hagendorf.html Allison Hagendorf's On-Camera Host Reel]
* [http://www.buchwald.com/media/commercial_vo/commercial_women/HAGENDORF_ALLISON_COMM_05182007.mp3 Allison Hagendorf's Voiceover Reel]
* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2369439/ Allison Hagendorf's IMDB Page]
* [http://www.baeblemusic.com/greenRoomMain.aspx Allison Hagendorf Hosts Baeblemusic's The Green Room]
* [http://mryouth.com/ftp/Courtney/Ben/RTR_Event_Package.mov Allison Hagendorf Hosts Playboy's Rock The Rabbit]
* [http://onslot.net/clients/SteveMaddenMusic/SMS_JessieBaylin_FINAL071808WEB.mov Allison Hagendorf Hosts Steve Madden's Scene]

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