Cracking the Voiceover Code

Leading voiceover professionals, talent agents, casting directors, and producers offer a behind-the-scenes look at how to break into voiceover acting and sustain a career. The program will offer insiders’ perspectives on the process and reveal the variety of voiceover work available in the industry, including television and radio commercials, animation, video games, movie trailers, Automated Dialogue Replacement (ADR), audio book narration, and more. Panelists include Scott Brick, narrator of hundreds of best-selling audio books; Sylvia Villagran, a Spanish and English language voice actor for national and international commercials; Dave Fennoy, an award-winning voice actor for some of the world’s best-selling video games, as well as the voice of Hulu; Sondra James, voice actor, actor, and ADR director/producer for feature films; Steve Zirnkilton, a voice actor known for the opening narration of Law & Order and an announcer for CNN, Discovery Channel, and Cartoon Network; Rudy Gaskins, the Emmy Award-winning Creative Director and CEO of Society of VoiceArts and Sciences; Billy Serow, an Abrams Artists talent agent who also teaches voiceover and camera techniques at Rutgers and Yale Universities; Jen Rudin, award-winning casting director for animated films at Jen Rudin Casting; Cristiana Santo Pietro, senior account executive and producer for WABC New York specializing in integrated marketing across all media; and Sara Krieger, voice actor and featured voice of the Late Show with David Letterman, American Express, Estée Lauder, and others. The program will be followed by a reception.