Voiceover: How Did You DO It?? Posts

February 15, 2021 /

Today’s guest is the amazing Jim Conroy, commercial, animation, and game voice actor, commercial actor, film and tv actor, voice of Ameritrade, and many other brands over the 20 years he’s been doing this, not to mention dozens of celebrity impersonations on Celebrity Death Match.

He’s known for appearing on television shows, such as Celebrity Deathmatch, Kenny the Shark and Fetch! with Ruff Ruffman, as well as numerous radio commercials and video games. He has worked for WGBH, The Walt Disney Company and Discovery Channel.

He’s been in Curious George, Ice Age: Continental Drift, Grand Theft Autio IV & V, Star Wars: The Old Republic, and many more.

February 11, 2021 /

Kira Buckland is a Los Angeles-area voiceover actress providing voices for video games, animation, anime and dubbing, commercials, corporate narration, phone messaging, toys and children’s media, arcade machines, educational apps, text-to-speech and artificial intelligence, promos, and more. She records from both home and in-studio, and continues to be hired by a variety of repeat clients around the world for her versatility in voices and styles.

February 8, 2021 /

Tom is a New York based voice actor who has been in the business since 2017. He is currently represented by Stewart Talent and has worked with clients such as AT&T, Heineken, Nickelodeon, IBM, and McDonald’s to name a few.

He loves VO because no two gigs are ever alike! I mean what job allows you to be a dinosaur in a kid’s show and then talk about the Nintendo Switch in a commercial? All in the same day?!

February 3, 2021 /

Sam is an experienced and professional voice actor based in New York City. Her work can be heard in almost every genre of voiceover, including, commercials, narration, eLearning, animation, video games, audiobooks, voicemail/IVR, and everything in between. She’s a proud cabinet member of the best group on the internet, Voice Actors of NYC. In her free time, Sam loves to make pottery, cook complicated recipes, and dance to funky beats.

February 1, 2021 /

Battled stuttering, stammering, and a lisp. Fell into broadcasting at age 17 after going through speech therapy as a tween. Working in broadcasting since 1994, first paid VO gig in 1996. Mel has been a writer, producer, production director, and coach for radio, television and voice over. Currently a working voice over talent and the host of the AnyVoices Podcast at AnyVoices.com and voice overs at TheRealVoice.com

January 29, 2021 /

Maria Pendolino is an award-winning professional female voiceover actor. Maria has been a professional working actor for more than fifteen years, Maria’s vocal style is real, conversational, authentic, natural, friendly, relatable and sassy. Trained in musical theatre, film, television and voice, Maria’s delivery is youthful and on-trend – perfect to represent and speak to Millennials and Generation X. Accolades include winning the 2017 and 2018 Voice Arts Award for Best Voiceover Performance in the e-learning and consumer sales video categories. She was also nominated in the radio imaging category. Maria was also awarded the 40 Under 40 Award in 2020 by Business First Biz Journals. In 2020, she was nominated for a German Computer Game Award as part of the Prim Adventure Game team.

January 26, 2021 /

Dee started in radio many years ago, learning his VO and engineering chops.  He has over 20 years of experience recording & producing for local businesses as well as large corporations and has hundreds of clients in over 50 countries doing commercial, animation, games, eLearning, narration, and just about anything else clients need, including advanced editing.  

In this episode, we talk music, nerd out on equipment, and get into the nitty gritty of VO.

January 22, 2021 /

Lisa Biggs is a voice actor, coach, demo producer, and so much more!

People gave Lisa a hard time about her “squeaky” voice since she was a kid. After giving an oral presentation as a sophomore in college, she was approached by a professor who said, “Your presentation was great, but if anyone is ever going to take you seriously in the real world you’re going to have to do something about your voice”. And that’s exactly what Lisa did.

Now, she’s a professional voiceover talent, hired by top brands for Commercials, Toy Voices, Promos, Animated Series, Character & Gaming Voices, Elf Imaging, K12 eLearning and so much more!

January 19, 2021 /

His clients include Nutrisystem, Uber, Cadillac, Enterprise Rent-a-Car, Green Dot Bank, Zillow, Wrangler, Microsoft, Amazon, John Deere, Sears, 4Ocean, and Michelob, among others. Joshua has done radio broadcasting, PSA’s, and video production incorporating voice acting work in a career serving clients all over the world.  He’s also done jingles, because he used to be a singer. Joshua has a storied career from the comfort of his home, and he loves what he does.  He truly lives to serve, because being chosen is very important to him.

January 15, 2021 /

Anne Ganguzza is a long time voice talent, voiceover coach, and demo producer. Her voiceover experience includes corporate and industrial narration, e-learning and online learning tutorials, voicemail, IVR, on-hold messaging,  commercials, infomercials,  live broadcasts, government & educational promotional videos and advertising, and so much more!