Archive for September, 2009


A Lesson in Branding

When your brand as a voice actor is as secure as as his was, you can get away with wonderfully inventive demos like this. I don’t have enough fingers to count up the “rules” he broke with this one. But it didn’t matter. Lorenzo Music.mp3

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Luck and The Voice Actor

I’m reading James A. Michener’s autobiography The World Is My Home.  In it he offers tips to would be writers and speaks of how simple luck played a huge role in his success.  Just change a few of the skills mentioned and you’ve got great advice for the voice over performer: The only generalization I [...]

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The Marice Tobias Fall Workshop Schedule

Stacey Stahl emailed yesterday the dates and cities of the remaining Marice Tobias workshops for voice over pros this year.  See them here. Marice has a magical way of spotting things that are getting in the way of your most authentic performance as a voice actor. I highly recommend her workshops.

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What is the Context?

Been thinking about the word “context” this morning. It’s one of the lenses through which we should see the script as we prepare for the job or an audition. It helps us determine choices. I think language scholar Oscar E. Nybakken has a very useful take on the word “context” for the voice actor: Context [...]

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New Area of Work for the Voice Actor?

The merging and melding of media marches on.  Now we have video embedded in print ads.  What does this mean for the voice actor? It can’t be bad, methinks.

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