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Steven Lowell
Steven Lowell is a voice over actor, writer, teacher, and community manager for the voice over industry. Steven is a distant descendant of [|James Russell Lowell], a [|Fireside Poet], and poets such as [|Robert Lowell] and [|Amy Lowell].

Career
Steven Lowell attended [|Wagner College] from 1991-1995 on a Golf Scholarship, and graduating with a BA of Liberal Arts as a Speech and Theatre Arts Major. From 1995 to 1999, he held several traveling acting jobs, including a drug awareness play for counseling young teens called "Halfway There", a show that took him to Cairo, Egypt, Guam, and all 50 of the continental United States. Between tour dates he began working in Times Square, New York City, New York during the years in which [|Mayor Rudy Giuliani] used his Quality of Life Initiative to bring in new businesses that would attract tourism, and remove pornography video stores and crime element. From 1995-1999 Steven Lowell also worked as a virtual reality DJ at the first virtual reality arcade,XSNY, a creation of Skyline Multimedia.

In 1999, Steven Lowell left the on-camera acting industry to work as a production assistant for [|ESPNZone], a theme restaurant started by Disney Regional Entertainment in New York City (now closed). He stayed at ESPNZone, where he interviewed celebrities such as [|Mike Bossy], [|Joe Theismann], [|Chris Berman],and [|MC Hammer].

Influenced by the tragedies of the September 11th attacks on New York City, in 2002, Steven Lowell left ESPNZone to work for Baseline Tennis Agency (now closed), a tennis agency that attempted to gain higher prize money and more broadcast television exposure for professional tennis players in wheelchairs. Disgruntled by the overall media opinion that broadcasting such events would be too depressing for television, Steven Lowell quit and began working for [|American International Group at 125 Water Street]. From 2004 to 2007, Steven worked in a department in charge of segmenting insurance claims for construction, and liability claims. During the same time period, he worked as a business analyst and interim operations manager, including departments that worked in the Securities Exchange Commission NY State audits between 2005 and 2007.

During his time at AIG, he began learning about software testing and Quality Assurance, and also took part in training executives how to use certain intranet tools.

Due to stress from disagreements in company policy, which eventually led to AIG needing to be bailed out by the US Government in 2009, and increasing health problems brought on by a seizure disorder, Steven Lowell had a seizure at his job and walked away from AIG in June 2007. This decision was heavily influenced by a company disagreement over being asked to work one day after a seizure took place on the job, which led to a human resources representative being asked to resign.

Update
In July 2007, Steven Lowell was hired by a voice over casting website, Voice 123, and returned to the voice over industry where he began working in a position to help voice over talent start their careers. He is also a talent rights activist, thought leader, and writer for the voice acting industry.

Steven Lowell married Wendy Barbee in September of 2007, and currently resides in New York City, working from his apartment.