Every once in a while, I have an audition experience that’s just a hoot. And sometimes all that fun leads to a great gig! My agent recently scheduled me for a print ad audition for Minute Maid. The instructions were to show up looking like a particularly geeky and dull accountant type, mismatched shirt & tie, …
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I have to say, by and large, I genuinely like the casting directors I meet. They tend to be smart, positive, and enthusiastic audiences. Occasionally, I run across the rare exception. I remember being at a studio with multiple auditions going on a few months ago, and at one point a casting director came out of one …
I apologize that I haven’t posted a new entry in a number of weeks. My beloved dad passed away on November 8th, and I’m just now gearing up to get back into my blogging. While I don’t know how much personal information I’ll discuss on this blog over time, I’d like to share a story …
I was delighted to learn that Jenny Woolf, author of the fascinating new biography The Mystery of Lewis Carroll, greatly enjoyed the two free nonsense poem audio downloads I created for Storypods Audiobooks over in Oxford, England. On her Facebook page, Jenny wrote: “I’ve been in email correspondence with Andrew Sellon, LCSNA president, but never …
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If you have or know kids grades 1-6, check out this great free e-Learning site! I contributed the voiceovers for the Guided Tour, and all the content is created by e-Learning professionals volunteering their time, which I think is fantastic. Kids don’t need to register to use the site, so parents don’t have to worry …
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I became acquainted with Liz and Francis, the brains behind the Oxford-based Storypods Audiobooks when I reviewed their charming audio production of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland a couple of years ago. This year, Liz told me they were going to sponsor a nonsense writing competition, and asked me to be one of their judges. I …
I’ve completed my two days of shooting as Dorian, the tense gay TV producer, for the feature film Mamarosh. My second day of shooting also happened to be the last day of shooting for the entire film, so I was there for the final wrap. Over the course of shooting, I met and worked with …
I’ve just now realized to my astonishment that I never got around to doing a post about the Broadway production of Sarah Ruhl’s play In the Next Room, or The Vibrator Play. I’m particularly abashed, because it’s one of the best plays we’ve seen in a long, long time. We caught it in its final …
Sometimes great things happen in surprising ways. The independent feature film Mamarosh, which has already completed two-thirds of its filming in Europe, is now shooting the remainder of the film in New York. I auditioned for the role of a pompous cinema manager. Casting directors Brandon Powers and Harley Kaplan were very gracious, and the …
When I presented my eLearning voiceovers seminar at the eLearning Guild’s March 2010 conference in Orlando, I met a lot of bright, creative, super-friendly people. One of those folks was Michael Williams, who is Director of Courseware Development for a great non-profit called “e-Learning for Kids.” They run a web site of free interactive elearning for grades …
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