“HOW DO I GET INTO VOICE OVERS?”
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Welcome to the web’s most comprehensive resource covering the art, craft and career of voice acting!
This site is for all levels of ability- from those utterly new to voice acting to amateurs to working pros. You’ll find no fees and no ads- just practical, encouraging insight.
I’ve distilled for you what I’ve learned from my over three decades as a professional voice actor in Hollywood, as well as five decades of live performing.
Whether you’re looking for an exploratory overview or a career-expanding deep dive, you’ve come to the right place!
I add new pages often, with my “Latest Additions” blog posts listed in the column to the right if you’re on a computer or if your cell phone is held horizontally.
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Beginners:
Those new to voice acting and all curious amateurs should start by reading my FAQ and VO Myths pages.
If you are new to acting check the pages under the “Starting from Zero” dropdown menu above.
CLICK HERE for a short list of experienced animation voice actors who teach.
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More experienced performers will find insight on advanced topics like how to make a demo, how to audition, what happens in a session and how get an agent, as well as broader discussion of the career of voice acting for those suited to it.
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I’m curious to hear your thoughts on how artificial intelligence will affect the voice acting industry. […]
From the beginning, the entertainment industry has weathered a drum beat of profound disruptions- sound, movies, TV, VHS, DVDs, streaming and now A.I. Each time professional creatives either roll with it and evolve or step aside or are washed downstream. Same with the corporations that hire creatives.
The sky is always falling. But in spite of over a century of this serialized tumult- professional creatives and story tellers and the companies that finance entertainment are still here.
As always, many will lose jobs during technological disruptions. But many jobs convert or change description and other new jobs and job categories are created.
We humans are story telling creatures and the creation of stories is a human affair- though this has always been assisted by the technology we innovate from the pen and paper to printing press to word processors, tape and digital recording and on to digital production tools and A.I.
Humans bring a deep and largely inscrutable communication and problem-solving capacity that is incredibly sophisticated and efficient at the process of creative story telling. Our capacity to intuit meaning, to problem solve meaning in stories and improvise on-the-fly appropriate and fitting ideas are human-specific super powers.
Market and technological changes are here and more are coming but it is always up to the creative individual to adapt, to pivot and make oneself invaluably good at what we humans do well. The nuance of story telling and acting are essentially the domain of humans, though the boarders of it may begin to erode to A.I.
But humans create with a recognizable specificity and awareness of context that flows from human life and experience. Machines replicate and recombine the generic, the non sequitur, the average- all of which are anathema to nailing a good story. Machines do cosplay story creation, though the ability to assist and spitball story telling grows at a rapid rate.
I am aware and on-guard but unafraid, for at the core of a good commercial, TV show or movie is a cluster of human voices working in concert, powered by our communication software that we’ve been developing and have been running for millions of years in concert with the technological tools we’ve innovated along the way.