I received a call Thursday afternoon from a Manhattan media production house asking me to audition on Monday (today) for a web commercial for a major national product. The audition was to be held in Manhattan, no remote recording please (my friend Drew was also invited to audition but since he’s in the Dallas area [...]

Karate thoughts again. It’s just so woven into my life. I went down to New York last weekend for an outdoor “system-wide” workout in Central Park. Hanshi Scaglione was up from Florida, and one of our Kyoshi and 6 Sensei were present. We could not have asked for a more perfect day to be out [...]

I’ve written here before about karate and voice-over. Both are physical and anyone who does physical activity and voice work on a regular basis can tell you that the parallels are numerous. But use of the voice in karate is what got me thinking about the relationship most recently. The subject of psychological and kinetic [...]

Yesterday I spent the day at Rumblestrip Audio in Brookline, MA at Pat Fraley’s 9 Critical Skills to Voice-over Excellence Master Class. The class went from 10 am to 7 pm and included a lot of partner work and a lot of time at the mic. I’ve never gotten so much concentrated great information in [...]