Shana Pennington-Baird is the director of the Seattle Voice Institute and a voice-over artist. Eighteen years ago Shana ‘bent' her vocal cords after performing for six shows consecutively without break and teaching kids theatre during the day. For six weeks she did not speak, for nine months she did not sing, and after healing without any kind of surgery has gone on to a long career in audiobooks, promo, commercial VO, eLearning, musical theatre, and teaching vocal health. Shana trains people from all walks of life to breathe properly, warm up, and keep their voices healthy for life. Julie Williams talks to Shana about protecting your voice, no matter how long or difficult your sessions are.
Rob Sciglimpaglia, voice talent, on-camera actor, and an attorney who works with voice over issues, discusses the advent of AI (Artificial Intelligence) text-to-speech platforms,...
Voiceover talent Bob Souer talks with Julie about the day-to-day business of finding voiceover work, as well as how to "invite the avalanche" of...
Top voiceover agent Wes Stevens of VOX, Inc. in LA talks with Julie about how voiceover talents should approach agents, and what they should...