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 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.
Everyone Wants to Be a Voice in a Game. It's Not About the Voice Anymore.
I've been working in video games since 2006. Back then, my job was straightforward: come in, voice a stack of NPCs, go home. Then this thing called mocap came along — and it was my PUPPETRY background that got me in the door. Here's what's changed since, why it matters, and why "I want to be a voice in a game" isn't quite the right ambition anymore.
An Audience of One: The WHO Behind Every Story You Tell
Storytelling is essential to our human identity. The stories we tell are how we know who we are. And as voice actors, we do something both ancient and profound — we share a great story with an audience of one. Here's what that means for every performance you'll ever give.
Slate in Character. Every Single Time. (Yes, I Will Die on This Hill.)
Fair warning: some coaches teach this differently. I respect that. And I will respectfully, enthusiastically, and permanently disagree. I once booked a role FROM my slate. Before I read a single word of the script. Here's why slating in character isn't just good advice — it's the difference between booking and being skipped.
Cold Reading: The Practice Every Voice Actor Needs and Most Skip
Here's something I've been telling my actors a lot lately: if you call yourself a voice actor... cold reading is not optional. Not for audiobook narrators. Not for commercial actors. Not for animation voice actors. ALL of you. Here's why narration teaches every voice actor something they can't learn anywhere else.