Voice Acting for Animation
Being animated is an everyday part of my job as a voice acting coach and as a voice actress, depending on the project type. My first professional contract as a singer was with Disney as the singing Little Mermaid in …
Working Wednesday: A Good Slate
In today’s rapidly changing voice-over industry, slating will always remain the way to vocally identify yourself to the casting team or whoever is going to be listening to your audition. When asked to go to a studio for an audition, …
Working Wednesday: Feeling Emotion in Your Voice with the Emotion Wheel
Improvisation skills and being able to think fast on your feet (or voice) when given direction is a necessity when recording most voice over projects in the studio. Our job as a voice actor is to give voice and emotion …
Places To Find Voice-Over Work
Ultimately, most of us would love to finish our voice-over training and have a clear path to all of the opportunities that are out there. But if it were that easy, then it would be a super long line of …
Greeting Card Exercise: Organic Copy and Your Imagination
One night I was shopping at my local drugstore and was in the greeting card aisle. I was looking for a card for my mom and while reading the card, it hit me: this is great voice-over copy! I started …
The Mental Crossover: From Part-Time Jobs to Full-Time Voice-Over Artist & Coach – “Letting Go”
I started imitating voices and songs at the age of six when I saw the movie Annie and my family discovered that I could sing a song after hearing it once. I had a gift. I just didn’t know …