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My friend Dave DeAndrea is the voice of this public service announcement.

Nice work, Dave.

Jude Corbett is a voice actor featured in an article this month in The Brown Daily Herald. My thanks to Steve Spector for posting the link to this article on LinkedIn.

Studying voice acting with Marice Tobias is truly a wonderful experience, and if you are a working pro, one that I encourage you to experience. This past weekend I had the thrill and delight of joining 12 extremely talented women and men in Atlanta, GA for a commercial and narration workshop with Marice.

In this case, Marice was our photographer because she prefers to stand behind the camera. The group is from the left Mike Stoudt, me, Peter O’Connell, Jill Perry, Rowell Gormon, Caryn Clark, Alexander Vishnaikoff, Pam Tierney, Melissa Exelberth, Debra Webb, Kara Edwards, Beth Whistler (I haven’t found a site for Beth) and Robert J. Hughes.

In my reflections on this weekend, one thing that really stood out to me about Marice’s coaching is the unrelentingly high standards on the one hand and the exceptionally encouraging tenor to the entire experience. You don’t get to get away with being lazy when you’re studying with Marice, but you will certainly come away with a greater understanding of how to take your performances to a higher level.

By the way, you can read about Peter O’Connell’s perspective on this experience on his blog.

But it was brand new to me this morning. June Foray’s autobiography is available from BearManor Media.

The above video is on the site, but I just had to share it here, too. My thanks to my friend Cindy Clifford for sending me the link on Facebook.

With thanks to my friend Dan Nachtrab for emailing me the link, check out this wonderful interview clip on NPR’s web site with Tom Hanks on working in the voice booth.

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My friend Sam Mowry and several of his talented co-horts in Portland, OR present the conclusion of The Island of Dr. Moreau in a live “radio theatre” presentation.

Sam is the fellow with the white scarf.

My friend Dan Nachtrab is the voice of the spot for Wagner Power Painters.

Mighty nice work, Dan!

With my thanks to James Alburger and Penny Abshire and their VoiceActing Academy blog for posting the link to this video.

My friend and mentor Philip Banks offers guidance on how to take direction.

Hilarious, Philip!

My friend Anthony Mendez is the voice for the Law Abiding Citizen Hispanic TV spot. Superb work, Anthony!

My friend Jeffrey Kafer isn’t just a find voice actor, he’s turned out to be quite talented as a web comic artist. Check out his web comic called Voice-overload.

I started attending the (as it was called back then) Dick Orkin/Dan O’Day International Radio Creative and Voice Over Summit in 1997 and have been to every one since, including this year’s in August of 2009. For the first several years Dick and Dan jointly put this event on together and Dick’s Creative Director Christine Coyle part of each of these years. Christine is a simply marvelous director and each of those years for some reason I never got a chance to get directed by Christine. I would be standing in line and time would run out for the session just as it was going to be my turn. Year after year I would watch Christine take other attendees of the Summit through one fun experience after another, but I wouldn’t get a chance … until this year.

You can get a complete audio recording of Summit 2009 including the entire directing session with Christine Coyle (filled with lots more of this kind of excellent directing), Dave Foxx of Z100 in New York talking about radio imaging, a wonderful session with Dan O’Day on writing and 3 solid hours of Nancy Wolfson’s voiceover training. There are only a limited number of these CD packages, so if you think you’d like one, you might want to act quickly.

My friend DB Cooper (Deirdre, to her friends) was interviewed at the Austin Game Developers Conference about her voiceover work.

Very, very nice Deirdre. By the way, in case you don’t know, Deirdre also is the hostess for the wonderful VO-BB, a bulletin board for voice actors.

Then check the blog post today by my friend Taji. He’s starting a new website called I Love Voice-Over Work, intended to feature your stories and experiences.

With my thanks to Joe Cipriano and Trish Basanyi for posting this video on Facebook, here’s a look at Danny Dark, Ernie Anderson, Bill Whitman and Gene Moss.

Great fun to see these icons of the business at work.