People

My friend Justin Barrett posts on the VO-BB that Bob Bergen is featured in a television interview on WFAA.

My friend Connie Terwilliger is the featured voice for a whole host of animated cartoons from the New Yorker, including one called Huge With Envy.

My friends Peter O’Connell, Liz de Nesnera, Patrick O’Connor, Melissa Exelberth and Mary McKitrick had a fun meet-up today in Times Square. Peter shares the story on his blog, including a group photo.

The wonderfully talented and delightful Kara Edwards is the lady in blue in this cute TV spot for the Charlotte Metro Credit Union.

Kara has just relocated with her husband Chris to Tampa, Florida. We all ready miss her greatly here in Charlotte, but we’re sure she’s going to do great in her new home in Florida.

(edited to fix typo)

One of my friends from the Pacific Northwest, Dave Elvin, emailed to ask if I would add a link to his site. I’m sort of surprised with myself that I hadn’t all ready had a link to him because he’s such a talented fellow.

Voice actor Bob Bergen is featured in a two part interview at Pegasus News. Part one. Part two. My thanks to my friend Justin Barrett for posting these links on the VO-BB.

Billy West is featured in an interview on the A.V. Club site.

Dan O’Day takes a commercial to the woodshed each Monday on his blog. This week he enlisted the help of voiceover superstar Ann DeWig to help demonstrate how to take a commercial to a whole new level even when the writing might not be the most believable.

Superb work, Ann. And a very interesting exercise, Dan. Like several of the folks who left comments, I liked the second approach the best, with the third approach not far behind.

My friend Bruce Miles is featured as the voice talent in a series of television commercials for the Tire Warehouse chain in New England. Now, thanks to the Internet and YouTube, no matter where you are you get to enjoy them too, assuming you click the play button.

Wonderful work, Bruce. Thanks for sharing the news on the VO-BB.

Yesterday, my friend Mary McKitrick blogged about a day on a movie set. I found her story quite fascinating, especially so because like Mary I’m exclusively a voice actor and simply don’t audition for anything involving on camera work. Yet, the experience turned out to be quite delightful for her.

Update: Mary has received a very nice write-up in the Daily Hampshire Gazette about her day of filming.

I received a very nice email today from Australian voice talent Mairead Curran, asking if I’d be willing to add her site to my blogroll. She was nice enough to mention that she’d be willing to add a link to me in return if I required that, which I do not. But, I do appreciate the kindness of a link back when anyone so chooses.

By the way, Mairead (which if you read her site you’ll discover is pronounced like “parade” but with an “m”) has also started a voiceover blog, so I’ve added a link to that part of her site as well.

Several of my friends and a whole bunch of other voice talent in the greater New York City area got together the other day for a meet-up. Since I’ve documented so many of my own gatherings here, I thought you might like to see a bunch of photos that don’t include me. So, click on through to Erik Sheppard’s blog where you’ll find his Flikr slideshow of the day’s events. Read the comments to get a listing of who’s who in each photo.

Rodney Saulsberry isn’t just a great voiceover talent and coach, he’s also a wonderful, inspirational, singer. Check out his latest musical release Better Than Before.

With thanks to my friend Jeff Kafer for the link on his blog, there’s good news to report for fans of Transformers. Peter Cullen returns in Transformers 2.

My friend Craig Crumpton gives a delightful performance of Casey At The Bat by Earnest Lawrence Thayer, along with a few of his friends, as it were.

Craig is the founder and keeper of The Voice Actor Appreciation Society.

On Scott Brick’s blog, read the fascinating story of his past life working in the comic book industry and as a gumshoe. It’s well worth your time, especially if you have any affinity for comic books, Spiderman comics in particular.

The new voice of Yoda in Star Wars: The Clone Wars animated feature film and Cartoon Network series is Tom Kane. Tom is featured in this very interesting interview.

My thanks to my friend Dan Nachtrab for posting the link to this interview on the VO-BB.