by Bobbin Beam | May 31, 2013 | Acting, Audio Books, performance skills, Professional Development, Voice Acting
I write this before gathering my stuff, calling a cab and heading to LaGuardia after an eventful and enlightening week in New York City at APAC 2013. It was audio book world immersion! My hat is off to Tavia Gilbert for chairing the Narrator track, which I attended....
by Bobbin Beam | May 28, 2013 | Audio Books, performance skills, Professional Development
I’ve been a voice actress forever it seems, and now I’m going to my first ever Audio Publishers Association conference taking place tomorrow in New York City. My good pal and stellar audiobook narrator, Vanessa Hart, who has voiced about 70 books, will be my roommate...
by Bobbin Beam | Mar 31, 2013 | Acting, Career Advice, performance skills, Personal Development, Voice Acting, Voice Over
Just pulled this one up from the archives from a post in April, 2009. What kind of egg typifies your voiceover business? OK, just seriously silly fun, a smidge of truth and a heavy dose of positive attitude…. Is your approach to your voice-over work a bit...
by Bobbin Beam | Mar 28, 2013 | auditions, Career Advice, performance skills, Voice Acting, voice casting, Voice Over, Voiceover
I recently read an agent’s comment that if you can’t audition well, you have no future. So the truth is, for all actors, the real work is in the audition, and once booked, doing the job is play time. In both instances, you must act, and act well. The...
by Bobbin Beam | Feb 22, 2013 | Announcements, Events and Premieres, performance skills, Professional Development, Training, Voice Acting, voiceovers
VoiceWorld Toronto is a one-day voice-over industry conference being held in Toronto, Ontario on Saturday May 4th, 2013! This is the first Voiceover conference ever hosted by Voices.com VoiceWorld Toronto Conference Date: Saturday May 4th, 2013 Time: 8:00 am –...
by Bobbin Beam | Jan 17, 2013 | Career Advice, Community, performance skills, Personal Development, Professional Development, Voice Acting, Voice Over
Today my personal mantra is “fix my focus”. The pursuit of voice acting is more challenging than other career pursuits, but it doesn’t have to be. If you do your due diligence with research, workshops, planning, regular workouts and consistent analysis of...
