Learning from the Acting Greats
A while back, I decided to go on a quest to discover what the secret is to a great performance. I wanted to know the one element that elevates us from all the other actors and voice actors – that …
Laban for the Booth
Actors have many tools. Voice actors have one:our voice. We don’t have the luxury of costuming, make-up, physical movement, or even eye contact and connection with a scene partner. Even on the rare occasions when we aren’t acting alone in …
Inside the Voice Actor’s Studio: Warm-Up Edition
As actors, we have three important tools at our disposal: voice, body and imagination. I’ve been an actor, voice actor, theater educator and coach for a combined 40+ years and I start every class and every session with a warm-up. …
Stellar Home Studio: Location, Location & Isolation
Having a high quality home studio has always been important as a voice actor. But these days, home studios are no longer just for auditioning or for certain types of work. Home studios are absolutely essential if you want to …
Black Lives Matter
Our neighbors are taking a stand, and making it clear that the rampant racism that has proliferated throughout our country must come to an end, and that our elected officials and law enforcement must address the systemic pitfalls that ignore …
Three Tips for Understanding Audition Directions
Successful auditions are the bread and butter of the modern voice actor. While it’s true that you can book a project solely off of your demo, you’re much more likely to have to go to bat against a number of …
Why Audition Coaching is Growing in Popularity
There has never been a better or more exciting time to get into voice acting. From commercials, corporate narrations and video games, to ADR work in films and TV, there are so many opportunities for budding voice actors that it’s …
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, …
Improv Games to Help Your Voice-Over Practice
Improv is an acting technique where the actors react spontaneously to circumstances, scenarios, and each other, developing the characters and the scene as they go. Using improv in your voice-over practice will allow you to make strong choices and break …
Fun, Focus, Ease, and Breathe
How can you, as a voice-over artist, be the most creatively productive in a world of “Do! Do! Do!”, when to perform, you need to connect to just being? If you find yourself “doing” too much and you make no …
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 …
How to Make Emotional Connections to a Voice-Over Script
Click here to hear Bonnie read this article! “Nothing…I’m feeling nothing…” this sentiment from that song in “A Chorus Line” is not what you want to be thinking when you read through a script as a voice-over artist, nor what …