Tangled (2010)

(bio follows this abbreviated credits list:)
“Empire Strikes Back”
“Return of the Jedi”
“That 70’s Show”

DreamWorks/Paramount (movie theaters/cinema) :
“Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit”
“World Trade Center”
“Flags Of Our Fathers”
“The Bee Movie”
“Barnyard”
“Over the Hedge”
“Charlotte’s Web”
“Dreamgirls”
“Flushed Away”
“Shrek the Third”
“Transformers”
“Stardust”

ABC:
“Saving Private Ryan”
“Aladdin”
“Bambi”
“Cast Away”
“Forrest Gump”
“The Shawshank Redemption”
“The Green Mile”
“The Miracle Worker”
“Air Force One”
“Mrs. Doubtfire”
“The Shining”
“Jerry Maguire”

Nickelodeon:
“Dead Time Stories”
“Ned’s Declassified Survival Guide”

Live Description for the ABC Television / ACB Radio coverage of Barack Obama’s inaugurals, January 20, 2009 and January 21, 2013, and Donald Trump’s inaugural, January 20, 2017

Amazon Prime:
“Generation Wealth”
“Elf On The Shelf”
“Little Big Awesome”
“All or Nothing”
“One Mississippi”
“Weiner Dog”

Netflix:
“Newness”
“Duck Butter”
“Outside In”

History Channel:
“The Frankenstein Chronicles”
“Swamp People”
“Swamp Mysteries”
Sundance TV:
“Push Girls”

Zeitgeist Films:
“Love, Cecil”
“The Miracle Worker” with Patty Duke and Melissa Gilbert
“Barack Obama” (A&E/Biography Channel documentary)
“Monica and David” (feature-length documentary – HBO)
“9/12: From Chaos To Community” (feature-length documentary)
“Right To Risk” (feature-length documentary)
“Native Son” (PBS/WGBH American Playhouse)
“Rocket To The Moon” (PBS/WGBH American Playhouse)
“Diaries of Adam & Eve” (PBS/WGBH American Playhouse)

“Elmo’s World: Reach for the Sky!” (Sesame Street)
“Elmo Visits the Doctor” (Sesame Street)
“Beginning Together” (Sesame Street)
“All-Star Alphabet” (Sesame Street)
“Make Music Together” (Sesame Street)
“Elmo’s World: Reach for the Sky!” (Sesame Street)
“Elmo Visits the Doctor” (Sesame Street)
“Beginning Together” (Sesame Street)
“All-Star Alphabet” (Sesame Street)
“Make Music Together” (Sesame Street)
“Sesame Street”
“Plaza Sesamo” (Spanish)
“Clifford’s Puppy Days”
“Maya and Miguel”
“Globe Trekker” series “Secrets of the Dead”
“Fascinating Rhythm: The Story of Tap” “In Search of Myths and Heroes”
“Tales from the Tomb” “Japan’s War in Color”
“Private Life of a Masterpiece: The Kiss, David, The Scream” (and others)
“WWII–The Complete History” “World Class Trains” “Colonial House”
Martha Stewart’s “Everyday Food”

JOEL SNYDER, Ph.D., President, Audio Description Associates, LLC www.audiodescribe.com
Director, Audio Description Project, American Council of the Blind
www.acb.orq/adp
A member of Actors’ Equity Association, the American Federation of TV and Radio Artists, and the Screen Actors Guild, and a 20-year veteran of work as an arts specialist for the National Endowment for the Arts, Joel Snyder is best known internationally as one of the first “audio describers” (c. 1981) working with theater events and media at the world’s first ongoing audio description service. Beginning in the early 1970s, he recorded “talking books” for the Library of Congress and read privately for individuals who are blind – but his abilities as a describer have made hundreds of live theater productions accessible to audience members who are blind; in media, Dr. Snyder has used the same technique to enhance PBS’ American Playhouse productions, Sesame Street, a wide range of network broadcasts, feature films, educational videos, the IMAX film Blue Planet and the Planetarium show And A Star To Steer Her By at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum.

Under contract to the American Council of the Blind (ACB), Dr. Snyder is the founder and director of ACB’s Audio Description Project (ADP) designed to boost awareness of description in all formats throughout the United States. The ADP produced description for ABC-TV’s nationwide coverage of both of President Obama’s inaugurations as well as the description for the Arts & Entertainment Network’s biography, Barack Obama. The Project also produced description for the 30th anniversary DVD release of The Miracle Worker featuring Patty Duke as “Annie Sullivan” and the first-ever audio described tour of The White House. The ADP sponsors the annual Audio Description Awards, coordinates international conferences on audio description, conducts the annual Audio Description Institute, offers the “BADIE” (Benefits of Audio Description In Education—formerly the Young Described Film Critic) contest for students who are blind (the “Listening Is Learning” initiative, sponsored in conjunction with the Described and Captioned Media Program), produced the August 2017 international broadcast of live audio description of the total solar eclipse, and maintains the ADP website, the leading resource for information on audio description in all genres: www.acb.org/adp.

As Director of Described Media for the National Captioning Institute, a program founded by Dr. Snyder, he led a staff that produced description for nationally broadcast films and network series including Sesame Street broadcasts and DVDs. He was a member of the American Foundation of the Blind’s “expert panel” charged with reviewing guidelines for educational multi-media description and has been a member of several media access panels at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) as well as the Disability Access Committee of the International Telecommunications Union and the Description Leadership Network of the Video Description Research and Development Center.

In addition to work principally in media and audio description training, Dr. Snyder’s Audio Description Associates, LLC develops audio described tours for major museums and visitor centers throughout the United States including the writing/voicing of an audio described tour of the Enabling Garden at the Chicago Botanic Garden, the National Aquarium in Baltimore, the International Spy Museum in Washington, DC, the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, the Albright/Knox Gallery in Buffalo, the Salvador Dali Museum in St. Petersburg, FL, several Smithsonian Institution exhibits including the National Museum of American History’s “The Flag That Inspired the National Anthem”, and myriad National Park Service and US Forest Service facilities including Yellowstone National Park and the Grand Canyon. Dr. Snyder trained museum docents in audio description techniques at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History and Sackler/Freer Galleries, and the International Spy Museum in Washington, DC, the Seattle Art Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Cooper-Hewitt Museum of Design and the National Museum of the American Indian in New York City. He also coached Secret Service agents/White House tour guides in AD methods and, as noted above, he is the producer and author of the first-ever audio described tour of The White House. Dr. Snyder worked closely with the Disability Rights Committee of the Obama for America campaign in 2008, serving as a surrogate speaker on disability issues for the Obama campaign, and coordinated live audio description for the Presidential Inauguration Parades in 2009 and 2013.

Internationally, Dr. Snyder has trained describers or introduced description techniques 44 states and in 62 nations, most recently in Cuba, Taiwan, Korea, India, Nepal, Cyprus, Turkey and Israel; he conducted audio description “master classes” in London, Prague, and St. Petersburg, Russia; and developed a team of describers for the Second Annual Moscow International Disability Film Festival as the result of intensive seminars conducted in Russia. He led described tours of Geneva and provided description for the World Blind Union General Assembly in Switzerland following the presentation of a paper on description at the International Federation of Translation conference in Shanghai, China.

Dr. Snyder is the recipient of the American Council of the Blind/Audio Description Project’s highest award, the Barry Levine Memorial Career Achievement in Audio Description; he also was named the 2014 recipient of the ACB Vernon Henley Media Award “for promoting and furthering the availability of audio description;” and in April 2015 was awarded the American Foundation for the Blind’s prestigious Access Award.

Dr. Snyder received his Ph.D in accessibility and audio description from the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain. His book, The Visual Made Verbal: A Comprehensive Training Manual and Guide to the History and Applications of Audio Description, is published by the American Council of the Blind and is now available as an audio book from the Library of Congress Division of the Blind and Physically Handicapped and in a separate version voiced by Dr. Snyder, in screen reader accessible formats, and in English, Polish, Russian and Portuguese.

Forrest Gump (1994)

Perfect Harmony (NBC)

Marvelous Mrs. Maisel

Zombieland 2

Bridgerton (Netflix)
The Dark Crystal (original)
The Dark Crystal; Age of Resistance
The Witcher
The Witcher: Blood Origin
The Two Popes
Glow Up
I’m With the Band: Nasty Cherry
Into The Storm
Marcella, s2
The A-list
The Big Family Cooking Showdown, s2
Matilda: The Musical (Netflix)
Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story
Shadow and Bone

• The Orville
• LA to Vegas
• Scream Queens
• Son of Zorn
• Cooper Barrett’s Guide to Surviving Life
• Angry Birds 2
• The Grinch (2018)
• Ghostbusters
• Sausage Party
• Johnny English Strikes Again
• Kevin Hart: What Now?
• The Boss
• Pride & Prejudice & Zombies
• Maggie’s Plan

• Voice-over actor, writer, solo performer and snappy dresser, JP has voiced such iconic animated characters as Boss Baby in The Boss Baby: Back in Business and Kozo Fuyutsuki in Neon Genesis Evangelion (both on Netflix), as well as the Tin Man, Wile E. Coyote, Willy Wonka, and a slew of Marvel heroes and villains. His interactive credits include Rex Dangervest in The Lego Movie 2 Videogame and Wolfgang in the Skylanders series. JP has written numerous short films and plays produced in locales around the United States, including his autobiographical solo show, Donna/Madonna, which garnered awards at the United Solo, New York International Fringe and San Francisco Fringe Festivals. He is a co-founder of the non-partisan organization NerdsVote, linking cosplayers, gamers, pop culture fans, and nerds of all kinds to voter registration opportunities. Hailing from the “Electric City,” Scranton, PA, JP can usually be found somewhere in LA sampling gourmet ice creams, or on social media @jpkarliak.

American Wrestler: The Wizard (Film)

Black Box, Feature Film. Amazon Studios

Mayans M.C. (FX) (Season 2)

Once Upon a Time in the West, Feature Film, Paramount Pictures

One Dollar (CBS All Access | Originals) (Season 1)

Time: The Kalief Browder Story, Documentary Film, Paramount Network, BET

Champions

Where the Crawdads Sing

Night Swim

Unhuman 4k

Star (TV Series)

Lucifer (TV Series)

The Bronze (Feature)

The Fifth Wave( Feature)

The Young Messiah (Feature)

Burnt (Feature)

Christ the Lord

Wayward Pines

Kubo and the Two Strings

A Monster Calls

Hillsong: Let Hope Rise

The Girl On The Train

Toni Erdmann

Passengers

3 Generations

Brigsby Bear

THe Dark Tower

Wonder Wheel

Thank You For Your Service

Coco

Jumanji

Paul, Apostle of Christ

Pope Francis: A Man of His Word

Loving Pablo

Blackkklansman

The House With A Clock In Its Walls

Miss Bala

Greta

In The Dark (Series)

Aeronauts

After years of studying music, playing the trombone and guitar, fronting a punk band, and a short stint as a DJ for a Chicago radio station, Sunil decided to pursue his other passion – the law. Specifically, Criminal Law, much to the dismay of his parents (weren’t there other fields within the law that were safer and less sordid?). But then, Sunil accepted a dare to audition for a play in his first year of college (at which point his parents sang the praises of the honorable and upstanding profession of Criminal Law) and soon he graduated Cum Laude from Indiana University’s prestigious Theatre & Drama program, with a double major in Communications. Luckily, his parents eventually came around!

From there, Sunil moved to New York City to pursue his career as an actor. There, he met cousins he never knew he had, fellow South Asian actors and filmmakers with whom he joined to make groundbreaking films and theatre, and the woman of his dreams (who also happened to be from the north side of Chicago!). The two of them currently reside in Los Angeles with their mischievous and adorable son and daughter, where Sunil continues to work as an actor in film, television, theatre, animation, and video games, as well as an award-winning audiobook narrator.

Sunil Malhotra was born in New Delhi, India, and arrived in Chicago at the age of 6 months old after his flight crash-landed. At least that’s the official story. He’s been making entrances ever since…

Big Sky

Animal Kingdom

Bering Sea Gold

Fast ‘N’ Loud

The Rookie

The Conners

Deadliest Catch

Aaron Needs A Job

Battle Bots

Mountain Men

Naked and Afraid

Homestead Rescue

Dirty Mudder Truckers

Expedition Unknown

Street Outlaws

Temptation Island

Garage Rehab

Berlin Station

The Fix

The Last Alaskan

Master of Arms

The Layover (Film)

Abattoir (Film)

Gold Rush

Out Of Time (Film)

Kings (Film)

Brawl in Cell Block 99 (Film)

Child Support

Brake Room

Alaska: The Last Frontier

Shifting Gears With Aaron Kaufman

Eddie Macon’s Run (Film)

DC Cab (Film)

Project Blue Book

Castaways

Eat Race Win

The Mayor

Terrance Howard’s Fright Night

When Calls The Heart

Secrets and Lies

Rosewood

The Middle

One More Time (Film)

1922 (Film)

Green Room (Film)

Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny (Film)

Senna (Film)

Spectral (Film)

Special Correspondents (Film)

Brahman Naman (Film)

Basmati Blues (Film)

Grand Hotel – ABC

The Girl With All the Gifts – Netflix

Mad Men – Netflix

Dynasty – Netflix

Still Tomorrow – Netflix

Without A Mirror – Netflix

Secret City – Netflix

What Dreams May Come – Netflix

Along Comes Polly – Netflix

Private School – Netflix

Senna – Netflix

Speechless – ABC

The Fundamentals of Caring – Netflix

Clinical – Netflix

The Confirmation – Netflix

Adult Beginners – Netflix

Somewhere Between – ABC

Kulipari – An Army of Frogs – Netflix

Rosewood – Fox

Real Boy – Independent Film, PBS

LaLa Loopsy – Netflix

The Goldbergs – ABC

MR University Tax Principles – MR Univ.

America’s Funniest Home Videos – ABC

Quantico – ABC

Women Without Men – Netflix

Into The Night – Netflix

Don’t Think I’ve Forgotten – UC IrvineIndie Games – Netflix

Reef Break – ABC

Katrina Babies

The West Wing

In Bruges

What We Do In The Shadows
DAVE
Have A Good Trip, Adventures in Psychedelics
Better Things
Nat Geo- Under Water Caves
Jerry Seinfeld Comedy Special
The Thomas John Experience
Last Man Standing
The Mick
Blindspot
The Exorcist
BH 90210
Motive
Glory (Film)
Hannah (Film)
The Bourne Identity (Film)
Bridgette Jones’s Baby (Film)Ghostbusters (2023)