All those chapters in my business life actually add up to a perfect prologue, or pre-life as Dolores Diehl would say, to the voiceover business. You see, it was with pride and certainty that I left the repping business in 2001 and entered in to the VO business. Well, at least with a timid, hopeful pride and a certainty built on dozens of classes, workshops as well as a blind trust (no, not THAT kind of trust) in a feeling in the pit of my stomach that this new endeavor felt life-affirming. And, life-organizing.

Six years into it and now I can see how lessons and skills learned from the intermediary endeavors support the original love – acting.

So, go ahead…tell me you need the second read to be…well, different. You want the Announcer lines read more non-announcery. You want the retail lines and point-of-sale lines read real-person, conversational and non-selly. Go ahead…please…it is for all of this and more that I gladly strap on the headphones, shut the solid-core door to my home studio like a tomb and descend in to the sane world that I now call home. A world where cows talking about California cheese sound like me. A world where an amorous Moose strangely sounds like Mae West. A world where a Drill Sargeant named Lucy teaches kids about fighting germs. I can be a gossipy Neighbor, a wry yet loving Wife, a stern Traffic Cop and a flustered, bumbling Teacher all in an afternoon. Yep, sometimes you have to go a long way out of your way to get to where you were headed in the first place. I love this business.