FREE Voice Over Tips & Insights – From a 25+ year Pro
Technically Correct, Emotionally Wrong
They built the coyotes anatomically correct, and it looked ridiculous. What LAIKA's Head of Animation and the puppeteer behind Rocky taught me about why perfect reads dead.
The Career I Never Planned Started With A Library Card
I could read before I could tie my shoes. Nobody told me that was job training. How a reading habit became a career… and the role I'm proudest of, that nobody knows I played.
The Part I Can’t Teach You…
Almost every part of voice acting can be taught. The half that actually decides your career cannot be sold to you by anyone. What a coach can give you, and what you have to bring.
The Hero And The Monster: What Peter Cullen Taught Me About This Job
Peter Cullen voiced Optimus Prime and created the Predator's clicks. His career is a working syllabus for voice actors. Here is what is in it.
Outside Of A Dog: What Groucho Marx Taught Me About Timing
Forty-nine years ago, one of the sharpest comic minds of the twentieth century slipped out the side door while everyone was looking the other way. On Groucho, the stateroom scene, and the day I got to be Harpo.
Everything you loved as a kid… was RESEARCH!
What a Muppets panel at D23 accidentally explained about my entire career... and about a Crow T. Robot audition I had been preparing for since high school.
Mega Shark Versus Your Ego
He was asked how he stopped letting the work define him. His answer was a movie called Mega Shark Versus Crocosaurus. Here's why that's the most useful thing any working actor said this year.
Make the Thing. Then Wire the Seats.(What a broke theater kid from 1941 knows about your career that you don't)
He wrote a play that didn't exist, staged a hate crime against his own theater, flew a plastic skeleton over audiences on a fishing line, and built a booth in the lobby where cowards had to publicly sign a card. William Castle also made genuinely good movies. That second part is the part voice actors keep skipping.