FREE “Voiceover Success Mini Course” By Email

What you’ll learn:

  • How to avoid the top 10 mistakes new actors make when getting started
  • How to get into the writer’s mind and book voiceover jobs
  • How to WOW (not repel) Casting Directors
  • What to avoid during Auditions
  • The counter-intuitive “Secret” to voiceovers
  • … and more! 

Voiceover Script Success Series #8

Back to the heart of what matters – KNOWING WHAT YOU ARE SAYING. I had a student a few weeks ago who read a script for me.  I asked him, after he finished, to tell me what it’s about.  He said he had no idea.  I had another student just yesterday who said he knows NOW (after a few intensive sessions together) that he just had a “read” and he just “did it”...

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Voiceover Tips from across the Webiverse

I recently found an article written by a voice actor regarding technique for voicing video games.  I think that some of the information there is relevant not only for games but also for many other genres of voiceover work, especially commercial.  A lot of it focuses on how to sound REAL, as it should, and has been said many times before.  The specificity...

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Voiceover Script Success Series #7

You can analyze a voiceover script in a number of ways, but the way that gives your read the most authenticity is to notice how the script makes YOU FEEL.  What you ultimately bring to the read is that you’re not reading a script or making some announcement, but sharing how you feel about something.  This is emoting.  The only way we can truly emote is to...

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Truth is the Blood of (voiceover) Acting

I am currently on page 134 of The Actor’s Art and Craft, and my mind is being blown apart – in a good way.  The book follows one of the classes taught by William Esper, who is conveying the lessons of his own great master, Sanford Meisner.  You can read a short synopsis on the Meisner Technique as well as on all the other great teachers and techniques in...

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Voiceover Script Success Series #6

Back to our script analysis work again.  I recently tweeted (yes I begrudgingly and very infrequently….ech….”tweet”) this comment on mastering script analysis and bringing it to the performance, “Voiceovers are a lot like the most successful relationships.  Sometimes you have to do what your partner wants, and you BOTH win.”  Believe it people.  Your...

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Lesley Bailey - Voiceover Coach & ConsultantHi! I'm Lesley Bailey. I’m an award-winning Casting Director, Voiceover Coach, Demo Producer, and Consultant with over 30 years "in the trenches". I love helping voice actors bring scripts to life with authenticity and confidence.
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FREE “Voiceover Success Mini Course” By Email

What you’ll learn:

  • How to avoid the top 10 mistakes new actors make when getting started
  • How to get into the writer’s mind and book voiceover jobs
  • How to WOW (not repel) Casting Directors
  • What to avoid during Auditions
  • The counter-intuitive “Secret” to voiceovers
  • … and more! 

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