What It Takes To Succeed As A Voice Over
It may seem elementary to mention it, but if you only dedicate 10 minutes toward your career in ten months time it’s unlikely you’ll succeed at all at anything let alone a voice over career. Yet, week...
View ArticleGoing the Distance in the Voice-over Industry
It’s been said that, “Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance.” So, what does it take to go the distance in this industry? There’s no single answer. There are four: pursue,...
View ArticleHow To Discover & Create Original Characters for Animation & Games
Certainly not every voice talent is required to offer flawless dialects, or extreme departures from themselves—as so many as actors and audience alike might assume. Nope. The truth is you being you (as...
View ArticleDo You Consider Yourself a VOICE ACTOR?
Do you consider yourself a voice actor? Well, whether you do or not, the fact is those most likely to hire you do see you as an actor, and they expect you to perform accordingly. Regardless of your...
View ArticleHow Far is Too Far as a Voice Actor?
There’s a specific performance technique I developed through SOUND ADVICE I call ‘stretching the canvas’. It’s based on the notion that much like the artist, Jackson Pollock, you need to risk well...
View ArticleMay Newsletter 2015
MAY 2015 “Play is the highest form of research.” – Albert Einstein You’re Paid To PLAY! Most people assume whoever hired us know what they want and will “direct” feeding us every nuance and notion....
View ArticleVoice-over, Kids & Young Adults
I was stage struck when I was a kid. To me, acting wasn’t just play (which it was): it was a full-blown quest, which continues to drive me today. That passion keeps me going, even when I’m met with the...
View Article5 Steps To Creating Original Character Voices
When it comes to animation and games (most often referred to as ‘Interactive’ voice over), producers who are most likely to hire you are after original character voices. And if you are among those...
View ArticleHow To Determine What You Do Best
“Who am I?” Now there’s an age-old philosophical question. Well, once upon a time, in an alternate universe, I was the perfect Peter Pan type: a sprightly, high-spirited tomboy who was both physically...
View ArticleChallenging Your Comfort Zone
Far too many actors kill a perfectly wonderful opportunities to create and play by trying to second-guess the director or producer. It’s an odd conundrum, but this happens far too frequently to...
View ArticleApril Newsletter 2016
April Newsletter 2016 March 32nd, 2016 “Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.”-Sacha Guitry Where You APP In an attempt to locate potential acting and...
View ArticleMay Newsletter 2016
May Newsletter 2016 “Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent.” – William Cobbett How To Know When To Update Your Voiceover Demos Beyond your sparkling personality,...
View ArticleWhat Does A Casting Director Do?
It may come as a surprise to most people as to what a casting director actually does, even if you’ve considered yourself a professional talent for a number of years. It may interest you to know a...
View ArticleWho Does What: Your Agent Is Not Your Manager
There’s a saying that goes, “The definition of unhappiness is when reality does not meet expectation.” This could easily account for so many talent wasting as much time as they do either crabbing about...
View ArticleJune Newsletter 2016
“When you have an important story to tell, the words you need seem to come of their own accord.” – J.A. Jance Increasing The Odds In Your Favor Commerce is confidence. If you aren’t confident, then you...
View ArticleHow to ‘Book Out’
Summer is calling. We’re moments away from family reunions, vacations, and long weekends. So, here’s a bit of advice that will keep you in good graces with your talent agents and potential clients: if...
View ArticleJuly Newsletter 2016
July 2016 “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” – Aristotle How To Eliminate Tech Anxiety for Voice Actors If you were born prior to 1980, technology may elude...
View ArticleWhat Makes You Stand Out As A Voice Over
At first blush, you might think voiceover is all about the ability to parrot famous stars, create cartoony characters at a moment’s notice, and authentically mimic any accent under the sun. And while...
View ArticleA Good Problem To Have
The entertainment industry doesn’t have a monopoly on problems, but we certainly have more than our share. To add to this, scores of ‘would-be’ professional actors and voice overs, with scads of...
View ArticleHow to ‘Book Out’
Summer is calling. We’re moments away from family reunions, vacations, and long weekends. So, here’s a bit of advice that will keep you in good graces with your talent agents and potential clients: if...
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