Roger Steffens

Brooklyn-born Roger Steffens wears many hats: actor, author, lecturer, editor, photographer, reggae archivist, director and producer. His professional radio career began in N.Y. in 1961, and was highlighted by a ten-year stint on NPR's L.A. outlet, KCRW, where he hosted five shows including the award-winning "Reggae Beat," which was eventually syndicated to over 130 stations worldwide during the 1980s. He has been acting in films, television and theater since 1965, and narrated an Oscar-winning documentary, "The Flight of the Gossamer Condor," in 1978. His voice has been prominently featured in "Wag the Dog," "Forrest Gump," "Ghosts of Mississippi," "The American President," as "The Loooove Jock" in "Can't Hardly Wait," and "Liberty Heights." He is also one of the main voices for the Museum of Tolerance in L.A.; the corporate voice for Time-Warner's Audio Books (for which he received a recent Audio Book Publishers' Audie Award nomination for reading Bill Gates' best selling book "Busin