Dave Bennett

Kaliopi Kuzyk, Voiceover Casting Director, BoomBox Sound Recently, I had the opportunity to sit down with Kaliopi Kuzyk , a voiceover casting director at BoomBox Sound  in Toronto Canada, to talk about where the industry has been, where it’s headed, and what working talent should really be focusing on right now. Her insights are basically that the voiceover world is not disappearing or shrinking. It’s moving in a different direction than the past. The End of the “Big Announcer” Era Kaliopi...

I got an email the other day from a company that said "We heard your voice sample on a voiceover website (name protected here). It spoke to us. We'd like you to audition for our project.” I don't get many of these as I get most of my auditions directly from various voiceover websites. But some do trickle in...I asked them for more details and they sent me a 34,000 word audiobook script and said they'd pay me US$5,000. They wanted the project done in 6 days! In an  earlier blog post  I wrote...

After I graduated from college (in a galaxy far far away and a long time ago), I found myself at a job fair.  At one point, for some reason (I’m sure there was a reason) I was talking to the local police department of the 10 th  largest city in the country.  I was chatting with an officer when another one came up and interrupted us and said to me “You should apply for one of our dispatch positions.  Your voice would have a calming effect on our officers in the field…” I ended up going to grad...