Chuck and Stacey continue the hilarious and uplifting roller coaster ride with animation genius, John DiMaggio, who shares where he finds inspiration for creating characters and what he loves about doing panels and making appearances at conventions. He celebrates his talented wife, actress Kate Miller, as well as what he feels are his strengths as an actor. He talks about his approach to working with other talent and what misconceptions celebrities may have about doing voice over work. He answer...
Jul 19, 2016•41 min
Chuck and Stacey welcome voice acting phenom, John DiMaggio to the show. Adored for his roles in Futurama, Adventure Time, Gears of War and Agents of S.M.A.S.H., John talks about the hit VO documentary he produced, I KNOW THAT VOICE, available on Netflix and iTunes. He shares what inspired him to make the film that came out in 2014 and also takes us back to how his career started in NYC including doing stand up as the duo Red Johnny and the Round Guy. Upon moving to Los Angeles 1996 to do the TV...
Jul 19, 2016•46 min
Chuck and Stacey shine a spotlight on voice actor, Alanna Bryant, the winner of the spontaneous VO Buzz Weekly Giveaway at VO Atlanta 2015. Via Skype from Atlanta, Alanna shares the story of the way voice over came into her life in elementary school and the training she later received from teachers like Noelle Romano and Jay Snyder from Edge Studio in New York. As a singer/songwriter, Alanna talks about the kinds of voice over work she has done and what is was like to hear herself for the first ...
Jul 19, 2016•23 min
Chuck and Stacey J. finish their conversation with the Emmy and Annie winning creator of MAD the Animated Series, Kevin Shinick who talks about how he keeps all the aspects of his career in balance as well as great advice for turning what you love to do into a career by utilizing resources available to you. Kevin reveals some of his current projects like the Robot Chicken DC Comics Special, the Scooby Doo and KISS: Rock n’ Roll Mystery movie, a panel with KISS at ComicCon 2015 and some on-camera...
Jul 19, 2016•28 min
Chuck and Stacey J. welcome Emmy and Annie winning writer, producer, director and actor, Kevin Shinick to the show. Kevin shares how his performing career began in college then lead to acting alongside Laura Linney, Ethan Hawke and Tyne Daley on Broadway. After moving to Los Angeles, he started working with friend and Robot Chicken colleague, Seth Green. Kevin offers great advice for doing what you love and taking control of what you want to do with your career. As the former host of Where In Ti...
Jul 19, 2016•33 min
Chuck and Stacey finish their conversation with Melissa Moats, voice actor and founder of The Voice Actors Studio in Las Vegas. Melissa offers great tips for effective networking to perspective clients and her approach towards keeping a positive attitude when auditioning. With recording more than 30 auditions a day, Melissa shares what she books a lot and the challenge of nailing a conversational read. Melissa explains her philosophy about voiceover which includes building and nurturing relation...
Jul 19, 2016•41 min
Chuck and Stacey welcome the truly inspiring Melissa Moats, versatile voice actor, singer and founder of The Voice Actors Studio in Las Vegas. Melissa shares how it all began for her from loving commercials as a kid, to being a cruise director on a cruise ship that lead to meeting her husband of 18 years, to discovering her love of voice over in a University of Las Vegas course with Alice Whitfield. As the voice of Ashley Furniture, Best Western and Meaningful Beauty, Melissa talks about the pro...
Jul 19, 2016•33 min
Chuck and Stacey J. continue their conversation with CW Network Senior Producer and VO coach, Harry Dunn who talks about working with the main voice talents of the network, Mike McColl, Scott Rummell, Rino Romano and Zach Fine. Harry tells how he has been able to give new voice actors opportunities like Max Mittelman and Dustin Layton and that the CW Seed is generally a better fit for female voice talent. He addresses how to deliver a conversational read using a quote spot promo he wrote and off...
Jul 19, 2016•26 min
Chuck and Stacey welcome Senior Producer at the CW Network, Harry Dunn, who brings his vast experience as a promo producer, writer, director and promo coach to the show. Harry shares how he got started in the business as a trailer writer/editor at Cannon films directing greats like Don Pardo, Mark Elliot and Don LaFontaine and writing for television shows like In Living Color, which eventually led to working at the CW network since 2002. Harry offers his opinions on having a range of skill for v...
Jul 19, 2016•31 min
Chuck and Stacey’s continue chatting with the fabulously talented and fun voice actor, Erin Fitzgerald, known for her brilliant work in Ed, Edd n’ Eddy, Wild Grinders, World of Warcraft, Skull Girls, Monster High, Persona and more. Erin talks about some of the projects she has worked on that she adores like World of Warcraft and Wild Grinders currently on NickToons. She shares how she worked to rebuild her career multiple times, what she does during slow times and offers amazing advice to people...
Jul 19, 2016•29 min
Chuck and Stacey’s guest this episode is the super talented voice actor, Erin Fitzgerald, known for her stellar work in animation, video games and anime in projects like Ed, Edd n’ Eddy, Wild Grinders, World of Warcraft, Skull Girls and Persona. Originally from Canada, Erin shares her story from loving to perform as a child to getting to a university degree in theatre and trying her hand in TV and film work. After doing a voice over looping job, she discovered voice acting was her calling and ev...
Jul 19, 2016•29 min
Chuck and Stacey’s special conversation with iconic voice director, Andrea Romano, concludes with a discussion about what stands out to her in auditions and what information and questions voice talent should have when submitting them. She gives invaluable tips about submitting multiple takes, proper etiquette at callbacks, essential elements of an animation demo and when it’s appropriate to adlib in a script. Andrea gives more details about her planned retirement in five years, which includes di...
Jul 19, 2016•46 min
Respected voice director, Andrea Romano continues her compelling story in Part 2 of VO Buzz Weekly with Chuck and Stacey J. Andrea talks about the process of casting the classic series, Animaniacs, with Rob Paulsen, Tress MacNeille and Jess Harnell and how she landed Bernadette Peters for the role of Rita the Cat. She explains how she decides what projects she will do or pass on and the challenges of having to negotiate her own work. Andrea speaks to what prerequisites a voice talent needs to be...
Jul 19, 2016•36 min
Chuck and Stacey are honored to welcome a living legend in the voice over industry, 8-time Daytime Emmy winning voice director, Andrea Romano. In Part 1 of this special 3-part episode series, Andrea begins the story of how her personal and professional dreams began to come true growing up in Long Island, New York with her large, supportive family. After graduating from SUNY Fredonia in Theatre Arts and one year of graduate school, she moved to New York City to act professionally, supporting hers...
Jul 19, 2016•50 min
Chuck and Stacey J. continue chatting with Emmy winning writer, director, producer, Jeff Nimoy who talks about creating the healthy blog, CookingCaveman.com Jeff shares why adopting the Paleo eating plan changed his health and life for the better and led to writing a book called, The Cooking Caveman: How to Lose Weight, Eat Healthy, Create Mouthwatering Paleo Recipes and Piss Off All Your Friends, available on Amazon. You can also watch videos on the Cooking Caveman YouTube channel. As an advoca...
Jul 19, 2016•32 min
Chuck and Stacey J. welcome Emmy winning writer, director, producer and actor Jeff Nimoy to the show. After graduating from NYU, Jeff shares how he found his way from voice acting on the Mutant League show to producing and directing that led to him winning an Emmy. Jeff talks about what factors he considers when hiring actors for projects and his experiences working with super talented VO actors like Steve Blum, Crispin Freeman, Debi Derryberry, Colleen O’Shaughnessy and Yuri Lowenthal. He speak...
Jul 19, 2016•35 min
Chuck and Stacey continue talking with teacher, producer, director, Joyce Castellanos, who speaks to some of the challenges facing voice talent today as well as some misconceptions about being in the voice over business. The super important promo demo is discussed including when to do one, what should be on it and what should be left off it. Joyce shares what she loves about teaching and what she still wants to accomplish in her life, personally and professionally. She offers her opinion about a...
Jul 19, 2016•30 min
Chuck and Stacey welcome an icon in the world of network promos and voice over coaching, Joyce Castellanos, who shares how she started as the secretary to the VP at NBC and worked her way up to promo director. She talks about the first people she directed, the legendary Don LaFontaine and iconic voice of NBC, Danny Dark. She reflects on the changing styles in promo reads, shares her expertise on how to find the conversational tone and what trends she is noticing now in promos. Joyce gives great ...
Jul 19, 2016•38 min
Chuck and Stacey J. continue getting BUZZ-ed with Chicago-based voice actor, coach, presenter and author, Bill DeWees who talks about how the video content for his YouTube channel got started as well as what to beware of when looking for voice over career resources. Known for the “real guy” delivery and as the signature voice of Chevy (outside the U.S.) Bill gives great suggestions for giving that natural, non-announcer style read and gives props to his personal coach, Marice Tobias. He talks ab...
Jul 19, 2016•34 min
This week, Chuck and Stacey J. get BUZZ-ed with Chicago-based voice actor, coach, presenter and author, Bill DeWees, who describes ways a voice actor can generate work, with or without an agent. He stresses the importance of having a great demo, specifically a “Demo that Rocks” by Chuck Duran. He shares his background in radio, business consulting and college teaching and what high stakes event catapulted him towards a career in voice over. Despite having more than a dozen agents in different ma...
Jul 19, 2016•30 min
Chuck and Stacey continue their chat with voice over superstar Vanessa Marshall. She is known for her work as Hera Syndulla in Star Wars Rebels, Irwin in The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy and Mary Jane Watson in The Spectacular Spiderman. Vanessa talks about her audition rituals and sings the praises of her renowned teacher Marice Tobias. She tells the story of how she got the role of Mary Jane Watson in The Spectacular Spiderman and shares great advice that she has gotten along the way fro...
Jul 19, 2016•35 min
Chuck and Stacey welcome voice over superstar Vanessa Marshall to the show. She is known for her work in commercials, narration, video games, promos and animation with characters like Hera Syndulla in Star Wars Rebels, Black Canary, Black Widow, Wonder Woman, Irwin and Mary Jane Watson. Vanessa, who got her BA from Princeton and MA from New York University, shares more about her journey in academia, her love of storytelling and anthropology, working as an on-camera actor and how she eventually f...
Jul 19, 2016•31 min
Chuck and Stacey J. continue chatting with voice acting phenom, Jennifer Hale who discusses some obstacles she wrestles with in life and how the state of the world influences her decisions when it comes to taking care of her family and community. She responds to being called, “the Meryl Streep of the genre of video games” and offers more insights about surrendering expectations, and what responsibility a voice actor has when it comes to helping advance their career. Jennifer shares her philosoph...
Jul 19, 2016•36 min
Chuck and Stacey J. celebrate VO Buzz Weekly’s 150th episode with an award-winning actor who has more than 160 video game credits to her name and the Guinness Book of World Records called “the most prolific female video game voice actor”. Time to get BUZZ-ed with the truly incredible, Jennifer Hale. Be sure to get your copy of Marc Cashman’s new book titled, V-Oh! Now available at www.CashmanCommericals.com You can also watch Marc in Episodes 60 & 61. Jennifer shares her beginnings in theatr...
Jul 19, 2016•32 min
Chuck and Stacey J. continue their chat with actor, writer, VO coach, Scott Parkin who talks about adlibs in auditions and offers some great tips to people for self-directing their auditions from home. He gives great advice and insights to those who want to make it in the voice over business and shares what current writing and acting projects he has going on. Scott shares how he balances being a single Dad with a busy career and what he loves about being a father. The IF question reveals Scott’s...
Jul 19, 2016•34 min
Join us for a fun, informative journey with California native and DPN client, Scott Parkin, who started in morning radio. After discovering improv in Dallas, he moved to Los Angeles to launch his on-camera acting, comedy writing, voice acting and coaching careers. Take a listen to Scott’s podcast called Scott Parkin & The Farm Report and sign up for his upcoming Meet the Pros night with Mary Lynn Wissner at Voicetrax West. Get all the info at http://VoicesVoicecasting.com Scott shares his ap...
Jul 19, 2016•39 min
Advice to fellow voice talent about building your confidence. Get ready for Part 2 with the incredibly talented singer, actor, Cam Clarke and listen to an excerpt from his amazing CD, Inside Out. Learn more about his music inspirations and some of his favorite characters he has voiced. Cam talks about some special people he worked with in looping who saw something in him that was a game changer for his career and the trio celebrate the overall graciousness of the voiceover industry. He shares a ...
Jul 19, 2016•36 min
Finding and using your strengths and versatility as a voice actor. Happy New Year! Kick off a brand new year of VO Buzz Weekly with a hilarious and heartwarming BUZZ, thanks to this week’s guest, voiceover icon Cam Clarke. He is known for his work as Leonardo in the original Teenage Ninja Mutant Ninja Turtles, Liquid Snake in Metal Gear video games, He-Man, Freddy the Ferret in Back at the Barnyard and so much more. Hear the amazing story of how Cam started in show business in the 1960’s perform...
Jul 19, 2016•36 min
Tony Oliver, creator, producer and writer of the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers TV show shares the story of how it all came about and why it became such a cultural phenomenon. He talks about teaching beginner, intermediate and advanced workshops with BangZoom Entertainment. Register and learn more at: http://AdventuresInVoiceActing.com/wo... He reflects on what he enjoys doing most in voiceover with respect to acting, directing, producing and writing. Tony discusses the process of working with Chu...
Jul 19, 2016•24 min
Five very important things every Voice Actor needs to do. Chuck and Stacey welcome to the show Tony Oliver, producer, director, writer of the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, and one of IMDB’s Top 20 Anime Voice Actors of All Time. Tony started his career singing and acting in theatre and now uses those skills as a voice actor and director. He shares the story about getting his first voice acting job, talks about the world of anime and the major differences between recording anime and animation pro...
Jul 19, 2016•35 min
