You’ve invested a significant amount of time, effort and money into developing your acting chops and producing your demos. Next, to give yourself the best chance for success, you’ve got to develop your marketing and promotional chops, as well. You’ve …
When your phone rings or email dings with the tantalizing opportunity for a booking, there are some key things to know and implement to ensure you’re not taken advantage of and can maximize your fee for that job. You won’t …
Years ago, while meeting with a soon-to-be-new talent agent, I was told something that I had long come to know but never actually considered so clearly: “The job is auditioning,” he offered, matter-of-factly. It was not a surprising statement – …
As the voice-over industry has changed over the last decade plus, the epicenter of casting calls has changed with it. In the ‘old days’, most auditioning took place in person at the offices of casting directors and in recording studios. …
Voice over talent agents are an integral part of many voice actors’ careers, and can be an entryway to exciting, high-earning gigs. Most major national commercial campaigns, high-profile documentaries, film trailers and the like get cast through talent agencies. So, …
At the conclusion of a recent recording session I received one the best compliments you can get from the producer. He said, “I KNOW this stuff and wrote the script and I wasn’t able to communicate it like that to …
In a world of one-off jobs, making a living in VO can seem daunting, but recurring work from regular clients is one of the keys to getting there. The Holy Grail for a working actor – or one aspiring to …
As VO actors, we are always looking for new and creative ways to increase our clientele. Volunteering for voice-over work is a great way to accumulate work experience behind the mic or practice performing in front of an audience, while …
Over the last several years, the majority of the work I’ve done – both auditions and bookings – has been from my home studio. And for easily 90% of those recordings, there has been nobody on the other side …
Whether a novice or an old pro, it is absolutely essential that you are constantly working to maintain and improve your chops. That means developing and practicing your performance technique, as well as staying on top of trends in the …
I consider myself among the fortunate few who make their living as a voice-over actor. Each day I awake with the potential to be greeted by the next great audition or booking. A normal person’s smartphone-phantom-limb-syndrome doesn’t hold a candle …