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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.
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.
Back To School, Back To Growth: What Pre-K4 Taught Me About Chasing Excellence in Voiceover
My son's first day of Pre-K4 reminded me why the best voice actors never stop growing. Here's what chasing excellence (not perfection) actually looks like.
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.
If You Can Tell Me a Story Without Sound... Guess What I Guarantee You Can Do?
I say this in almost every class and workshop I teach. It comes directly from my puppetry background — and it stops actors cold every time: "If you can tell me a story without sound... guess what I guarantee you can do?" The answer changes everything about how you approach the mic.
The Suspension of Disbelief: Your Most Powerful Ally — and Your Most Tenuous One
Last week I re-watched WALL-E with my four-year-old. I cried three separate times. Over robots. That don't really speak. In a movie I've seen before. And I knew — the whole time — that I was watching computer animated images on a screen. So why was I weeping? And what does that have to do with your next voice acting audition?