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supports By community, I refer to all the people who collaborate in one form or the SOCIETY OF VOICE another to bring about the work that sustains our livelihoods and sense of ™ accomplishment. The voice arts community is the hub around which we all ARTS & SCIENCES come together. Anything can happen at this intersection and all of us can help determine the outcome.

and congratulates We are not simply spectators of the industry, watching it take shape around this year’s nominees us. We are the shapers, actively breathing new life into its ever-changing form. We do this by bringing our best selves to the process with the intention of attending to the work with professionalism, respect, creativity and the spirit of collaboration, so that we may all enjoy gainful employment.

I am thrilled to be a part of the magic that is the Voice Arts® Awards. It is an enchanted world of acknowledgment and encouragement and it honors the best in all of us. It is not about being better than someone else. It is about being your best. Tonight we celebrate our esteemed jurors. We celebrate the entrants, nominees and the soon to be named recipients of the top honor. This is our night.

Sincerely,

Rudy Gaskins Chairman & CEO Society of Voice Arts and Sciences™

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6:00 pm WILLIAM SHATNER Arrivals on receiving

6:15 pm the Voicearts ® Icon awards Red Carpet Reception For lifetime achievement Hors’ d’oeuvres & Open Bar

7:15 pm and our clients and alumni on their Voicearts ® awards nominations Theater Open for Seating ELLEN DUBIN PAT DUKE 7:30 pm outstanding narration outstanding narration ® Voice Arts Awards Demo reel, Best Voiceover Demo reel, Best Voiceover Welcome (Director: Tony Daniels) (Producer: Tim Keenan) Award Recipients Announced Tribute to William Shatner Voice Arts® Icon Award SATAUNA HOWERY ALICYN PACKARD William Shatner outstanding Promo outstanding national tV Demo reel, Best Voiceover Promo Campaign Ed Loh, Editor In Chief, Motor Trend Magazine (Producer: J. Michael Collins) Ovation Network Announces 2016 Automotive Category Award Recipients Announced JAY PRESTON 10:00 pm outstanding local outstanding Commercial Closing Reception tV Commercial Demo reel, Best Voiceover McDonald’s Fresh Ingredients (Producer: Chuck Duran)

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12 13 ™ Time to Time: Director: Lyssa Browne VOICE ARTS AWARD NOMINEES Ashton Ford, Psychic Detective, Book 6 Editor: Suzie Brutke-Smurdon By Don Pendleton and read by James Foster AUDIOBOOK NARRATION - AUDIOBOOK NARRATION - AUTHOR TEENS, BEST VOICEOVER AUDIOBOOKS Forging of Britain PERFORMANCE, BEST VOICEOVER By Marc Morris and read by Ralph Lister Prince of Shadows: A Novel of Romeo and Juliet OUTSTANDING AUDIO ENGINEERING - Sound Editing: Joy Despres, Patrick M. Davis, Tim Gunn: The Natty Professor By Rachel Caine and read by Kyle McCarley AUDIOBOOK Margaret O’Neill By Tim Gunn; read by Tim Gunn Casting Director: Justin Scace, Tantor Media Engineer: Rachel Pick Producer: Tantor Media In Freedom’s Cause Sound Editing: Stephanie Kendall, Rachel Pic Sound Editor: Diane Kozlowski, Sandy Vasmatics Fear and Loathing in America Audio Engineer: Rob Jorgensen Tantor Media Court of Thorns and Roses Additional Writers: Aaron Fullan, Nick Huizenga, By Hunter S. Thompson read by Malcolm Hillgartner Blackstone Audio O, What a Luxury: Verses Lyrical, Vulgar, By Sarah Maas and read by Jennifer Ikeda Bill Heid, Nick Heid Pathetic & Profound Recorded Books The Marquis: Lafayette Reconsidered Assistant Producer: Aaron Fullan, Nick Heid By Garrison Keillor and read by Garrison Keillor By Laura Auricchio and read by Grover Gardner Black Hill Farm (Book 1) Consulting Producer: Nick Huizenga HighBridge Audio Executive Producer: Bill Heid HighBridge Audio By Tim O’Rourke and read by Anna Parker-Naples Find the Good: Unexpected Life Lessons Editor: Sandy Holmes London Casting Director: Philip Glassborow In Search of Sir Thomas Browne From a Small-Town Obituary Writer Producer: Anna Parker-Naples Music Composer: John Campbell By Hugh Aldersey-Williams and read By Heather Lende and read by Heather Lende Package Designer: Steve Tyrrell/Tyrrell Creative by Simon Vance Talon HighBridge Audio Project Manager: Mark Drury HighBridge Audio By Julie Kagawa and read by Caitlin Davies, Recording Engineer and Voice Track Editor: Easy Street (the Hard Way) MacLeod Andrew, and Chris Patton Mark Drury AUDIOBOOK NARRATION - By Ron Perlman read by Ron Perlman Blackstone Audio Sound Designer/Foley Artist: Rob Jorgensen SCIENCE FICTION, BEST VOICEOVER Blackstone Audio The Moon Dwellers: Dwellers Saga, Book 1 The Cast: A Full Cast, Skandar Keynes, Brian By David Estes and read by Julia Whelan The Silver Ships AUDIOBOOK NARRATION - Blessed, Billy Boyd, James Cosmo, Joanne Froggatt and Will Damron By S.H. Jucha and read by Grover Gardner Writer/Director/Producer: John Fornof CRIME & THRILLER, BEST VOICEOVER Editor: Bob Evoniuk Editor: Bob Evoniuk The Beam: Season 2 Amid the Shadows Executive Producer: Greg Lawrence, James Tonn Executive Producer: James Tonn and Greg By Johnny B. Truant, Sean Platt By Michael C. Grumley and read by Julia Whelan Proofer: Emily Derr Lawrence Executive Producer: James Tonn and Greg Lawrence Editor: Bob Evoniuk Podium Publishing Producer: Greg Lawrence Producer and Editor: Greg Lawrence Executive Producer: Greg Lawrence, James Tonn Proofer: Emily Derr AUDIOBOOK NARRATION - Voice Actors: Johnny Heller, R.C. Bray, Chris Producer: Greg Lawrence Podium Publishing Patton, Ray Chase, Jeffrey Kafer, Stephen Bowlby, Proofer: Emily Derr CLASSICS, BEST VOICEOVER Red Rising by Pierce Brown; Donna Postel, Emily Woo Zeller, Tara Sands, Podium Publishing Little Big Man Read by Tim Gerard Reynolds Rachel Fulginiti, Ralph Lister, Eric Martin, Julia The Good Girl By Thomas Berger and read by Scott Sowers Recorded Books Whelan, Adam Verner By Mary Kubica and read by Lindy Nettleton, Director: Rachel Pick Proofer: Emily Derr Acceptance Johnny Heller, Tom Taylorson, and Andi Arndt Producer: Claudia Howard Podium Publishing By Jeff VanderMeer and read by Bronson Pinchot, Blackstone Audio Recorded Books Carolyn McCormick and Xe Sands The Tempest Huntress Moon: The Huntress Series, Book 1 The Egg and I Blackstone Audio By William Shakespeare and read by A Full Cast By Alexandra Sokoloff and read by R.C. Bray By Betty MacDonald and read by Heather Henderson Occult Assassin #1: Damnation Code Blackstone Audio The Cartel Post Hypnotic Press By William Massa and read by James Foster With Lee in Virginia By Don Winslow and read by Ray Porter Producer: Carlyn Craig Critical Mass Publishing Sound Design and Foleys by Todd Busteed Blackstone Audio Editor: Carl Craig Yesterday’s Gone, Season 2 Assistant Producer: Nick Heid, Aaron Fullan Abide With Me One Hundred Years of Solitude Executive Producer: Bill Heid By Sean Platt and David Wright By Ian Ayris and read by Karl Jenkinson By Gabriel Garcia Marquez and read by John Lee London Casting Director: Philip Glassborow Read by: Maxwell Glick, R.C. Bray, Tamara Blackstone Audio Music Composer: John Campbell Marston, Brian Holsopple, Ray Chase, Chris Patton AUDIOBOOK NARRATION - AUDIOBOOK NARRATION - Package Designer: Steve Tyrrell/Tyrrell Creative Executive Producer: James Tonn and Greg Lawrence CHILDREN’S PRE-SCHOOL Producer/Director: John Fornof Producer and Editor: Greg Lawrence HISTORY, BEST VOICEOVER Production and Studio Coordinator : Aaron Fullan, Proofer: Emily Derr (INFANT TO 12), BEST VOICEOVER In Freedom’s Cause Beecher Proch Podium Publishing Under a War-Torn Sky By Brian Blessed Recording Engineer: Rob Jorgensen By L.M. Elliott and read by Elizabeth Wiley Additional Writers: Aaron Fullan, Nick Huizenga, Sound Designer/Foley Artist: AUDIOBOOK NARRATION - Sound Editing: Jenna Randall, Melanie Bodin Bill Heid, Nick Heid Todd Busteed, GAP Digital MYSTERY, BEST VOICEOVER Tantor Media Assistant Producer: Aaron Fullan, Nick Heid The Cast: A Full Cast, Brian Blessed, Kelsey The Ambassador’s Wife Big Hero 6 by Disney Press Consulting Producer: Nick Huizenga Lansdowne, Kirk Cameron, Chris Anthony, Sean Astin By Jake Needham and Read by Steve Marvel Read by MacLeod Andrews Executive Producer: Bill Heid Writer: Robert Liparulo Dry Bones Blackstone Audio London Casting Director: Philip Glassborow AUDIOBOOK NARRATION - By Craig Johnson and read by George Guidall Dory Fantasmagory Music Composer: John Campbell Recorded Books Package Designer: Steve Tyrrell/Tyrrell Creative BIOGRAPHY, BEST VOICEOVER By Abby Hanlon and read by Suzy Jackson Conundrum Recorded Books Project Manager: Mark Drury Recording Engineer and Voice Track Editor: Mark Drury So Many Roads: By Susan E. Cory and read by Lisa Flanagan Josephine Sound Designer/Foley Artist: Rob Jorgensen The Life and Times of The Grateful Dead Editor & Engineer: Iris McElroy, Jayme Mattler By Patricia Powell and read by Lizan Mitchell The Cast: A Full Cast, Skandar Keynes, Brian By David Browne and read by Sean Runnette Gun Street Girl Recorded Books Blessed, Billy Boyd, James Cosmo, Joanne Froggatt HighBridge Audio By Adrian McKinty and read by Gerard Doyle Jeff Madison and the Shimmers of Drakmere Writer/Director/Producer: John Fornof A Great and Terrible King: Edward I and the Blackstone Audio (Cont.) By Bernice Fischer and read by Matt Wolfe (Cont.) 14 15 Fracture: Life and Culture in the West, 1918-1938 Beecher Proch AUDIOBOOK NARRATION - Poison: The Fate’s Forsaken Prequel Novella By Philipp Blom and read by Ralph Lister Recording Engineer: Rob Jorgensen SELF HELP, BEST VOICEOVER By Shae Ford and read by Derek Perkins Audio Production Manager: Chris Rubano Sound Designer/Foley Artist: Executive Producer: James Tonn and Greg Lawrence Casting Director: Daniel Hypes Todd Busteed, GAP Digital Play It Away: A Workaholic’s Cure for Anxiety Producer and Editor: Greg Lawrence, Director of Production: Hilary Eurich The Cast: A Full Cast, Brian Blessed, Kelsey By Charlie Hoehn and Read by Ray Chase Proofer: Travis Chaney Production Assistant: Brandy Lawrence Lansdowne, Kirk Cameron, Chris Anthony, Sean Astin Executive Producer: James Tonn and Greg Lawrence Podium Publishing The Renaissance Writer: Robert Liparulo Producer and Editor: Greg Lawrence, A Load of Hooey By Will Durant read by Grover Gardner Pursuit of Tamsen Littlejohn Proofer: Emily Derr By Bob Odenkirk Blackstone Audio By Lori Benton and read by Kate Forbes Podium Publishing Read by Bob Odenkirk, David Cross, Jay Johnson, The Zhivago Affair Recorded Books Becoming the Kind Father Jerry Minor, Megan Amram, and Paul F. Tompkins By Calvin Sandborn and read by Michael Puttonen By Peter Finn and Petra Couvee and read by AUDIOBOOK NARRATION - NON- Blackstone Audio Simon Vance Producer: Carlyn Craig Leaving the Sea Producer: Mike Whitney FICTION, BEST VOICEOVER Editor: Carl Craig By Ben Marcus and read by Andrew Garman, HighBridge Audio Working Stiff -- 2 Years, 262 Bodies And The Post Hypnotic Press: Andy Paris, Brian Hutchinson and George Guidall With Lee in Virginia Making Of A Medical Examiner The 22-Day Revolution Recorded Books By Marco Borges read by Timothy Andres Pabon By Brian Blessed Read by Tanya Eby AUDIOBOOK NARRATION - Assistant Producer: Nick Heid, Aaron Fullan Authors: Judy Melinek MD and T.J. Mitchell and Beyonce And Dean Ornish (MD) Executive Producer: Bill Heid Director Of Production: Hilary Eurich Blackstone Audio FICTION, BEST VOICEOVER London Casting Director: Philip Glassborow The Gift of Cancer: The Gift of Cancer: A Miraculous Journey Black Sam: Prince of Pirates Music Composer: John Campbell A Miraculous Journey to Healing UNABRIDGED to Healing UNABRIDGED By Punch Audio Package Designer: Steve Tyrrell/Tyrrell Creative By Brenda Michaels, Marsha Mercant and read By Brenda Michaels, Marsha Mercant Alex Hyde-White as Sam Bellamy Producer/Director: John Fornof by Carol Monda Read by Carol Monda Dave Fennoy as Quintor Production and Studio Coordinator : Aaron Fullan, George DelHoyo as Edward “Blackbeard” Teach How to Bake Pi: An Edible Exploration of the The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up Beecher Proch By Marie Kondo and read by Emily Woo Zeller Jim, Taylor, Tamara Meskiman as the Phineas Family Recording Engineer: Rob Jorgensen Mathematics of Mathematics Sound Editing: Diane Kozlowski, Melanie Bodin Scott Brick as Gov. Shute Sound Designer/Foley Artist: By Eugenia Cheng and read by Tavia Gilbert Producer: Alex Hyde-White HighBridge Audio AUDIOBOOK NARRATION - Todd Busteed, GAP Digital Written in My Own Heart’s Blood The Cast: A Full Cast, Brian Blessed, Kelsey On Immunity ROMANCE, BEST VOICEOVER By Diana Gabaldon and read by Davina Porter Lansdowne, Kirk Cameron, Chris Anthony, Sean Astin By Eula Biss and read by Tamara Marston Cross My Heart Recorded Books Writer: Robert Liparulo HighBridge Audio By Abigail Strom and read by R.C. Bray The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry AUDIOBOOK NARRATION - Saving Baby and Amy Rubinate By Gabrielle Zevin and read by Scott Brick By Jo Anne Normile and Lawrence Lindner Executive Producer: James Tonn, Greg Lawrence The Wife INSPIRATIONAL/FAITH-BASED Read by Gabra Zackman Producer and Editor: Greg Lawrence By Meg Wolitzer and read by Dawn Harvey FICTION, BEST VOICEOVER Produced by Audible Studios Proofer: Emily Derr Producer: Bryan Barney Engineer/Editor: Pete Rohan The Bishop’s Wife Podium Publishing Blackstone Audio Producer: Mike Charzuk By Mette Ivie Harrison read by Kirsten Potter Green Darkness The Cake Therapist Blackstone Audio AUDIOBOOK NARRATION - By Anya Seton and read by Heather Wilds By Judith Fertig and read by Tanya Eby Grounded METAPHYSICAL, BEST VOICEOVER Sound Editing: Sandy Vasmatics, Samantha Goodrow Studio Director: Bryan Barney By Angela Correll and read by Lyssa Browne Tantor Media Blackstone Audiobooks The Hospital: The First Mountain Man Story Drama in the Church Saga In Freedom’s Cause By Keith C. Blackmore and read by R.C. Bray AUDIOBOOK NARRATION - By Brian Blessed By Dynah Zale and read by Karen Pittman Editor: Greg Lawrence Recorded Books FANTASY, BEST VOICEOVER Additional Writers: Aaron Fullan, Nick Huizenga, Executive Producer: Greg Lawrence and James Tonn Bill Heid, Nick Heid Producer: Greg Lawrence The Tempting of Thomas Carrick Wrath: Adrian’s Undead Diary, Book 5 Assistant Producer: Aaron Fullan, Nick Heid Proofer: Travis Chaney By Stephanie Laurens and read by Matthew Brenher By Chris Philbrook and read by James Foster Consulting Producer: Nick Huizenga Podium Publishing Blackstone Audio The Cycle of Arawn Executive Producer: Bill Heid Human Plus: Post-Human Series, Book 4 Her Heart’s Captain By Edward W. Robertson and read London Casting Director: Philip Glassborow By Elizabeth Mansfield and read by Anna Parker-Naples by Tim Gerard Reynolds Music Composer: John Campbell By David Simpson and read by Ray Chase Executive Producer: James Tonn and Greg Lawrence Producer: Michael Charzuk Executive Producer: James Tonn, Greg Lawrence Package Designer: Steve Tyrrell/Tyrrell Creative Producer: Greg Lawrence Project Manager: Mark Drury Producer and Editor: Greg Lawrence AUDIOBOOK NARRATION - SHORT Proofer: Travis Chaney Editor: Bob Evoniuk Recording Engineer and Voice Track Editor: Mark Drury STORY ANTHOLOGY, BEST VOICEOVER Proofer: Travis Chaney Sound Designer/Foley Artist: Rob Jorgensen Podium Publishing The Lord Collector: A Raven’s Shadow Novella Podium Publishing The Cast: A Full Cast, Skandar Keynes, Brian Your Word Is Your Wand By Anthony Ryan and read by Steven Brand Blessed, Billy Boyd, James Cosmo, Joanne Froggatt By Florence Scovel Shinn and read by Hillary Hawkins Harbinger: Fate’s Forsaken, Book 1 Executive Producer: James Tonn and Greg Lawrence By Shae Ford and read by Derek Perkins Writer/Director/Producer: John Fornof Peace is Every Step Producer and Editor: Greg Lawrence, Executive Producer: James Tonn and Greg Lawrence By Thich Nhat Hanh and read by Edoardo Ballerini With Lee in Virginia Proofer: Travis Chaney Producer and Editor: Greg Lawrence, Blackstone Audio By Brian Blessed Podium Publishing Proofer: Emily Derr Assistant Producer: Nick Heid, Aaron Fullan Lycan Fallout 2: Fall of Man Voices in the Night Podium Publishing Executive Producer: Bill Heid By Mark Tufo and read by Read by: Sean Runnette By Steven Millhauser Euphoria by Lily King London Casting Director: Philip Glassborow Editor: John Dennison Read by Adam Grupper, Alyssa Bresnahan Read by Simon Vance and Xe Sands Music Composer: John Campbell Executive Producer: James Tonn and Greg Lawrence and Jonathan Davis Blackstone Audio Package Designer: Steve Tyrrell/Tyrrell Creative Producer: Greg Lawrence Recorded Books Producer/Director: John Fornof Proofer: Emily Derr Production and Studio Coordinator : Aaron Fullan, Podium Publishing (Cont.) 16 17 Ascension: The Trysmoon Saga, Book 1 Estreno Superserie Dueños del Paraiso Dancer - “Elder Vasanti”: Abby Welborn Post Producer: Kristen Gray-Rockmaker By Brian K. Fuller and read by Simon Vance Roberto Sanchez, Voice Actor Dancer - “Fire”: Anastasia Trinidad Re-Recording Mix Engineer: Keith Hodne Editor: Bob Evoniuk Time Warner Cable Deportes - L.A. Galaxy Dancer - “Metal”: Kennedy Griffin Senior Executive Producer: John X. Kim Executive Producer: Greg Lawrence and James Tonn Francisco “Paco” Galvez, Voice Actor Dancer - “Spirit”: Stewart Ridgeway Series Associate Producer: Producer: Greg Lawrence Producer: Juan M. Paz Dancer - “Water”: Brady Moore Brittany Dowd, Eamon Ducey Proofer: Emily Derr Dancer - “Wind”: Alex Evans Podium Publishing OUTSTANDING SPOKEN WORD Executive Producer of Elemental War - Concept OUTSTANDING LOCAL TV Creator/Choreographer/Director: Jovon Miller COMMERCIAL, BEST VOICEOVER AUDIOBOOK NARRATION - BUSINESS OR STORYTELLING - BEST SPANISH PERFORMANCE Founder of Jovon Miller Productions/Executive McDonald’s Fresh Ingredients “Muffins” OR EDUCATION, BEST VOICEOVER Producer/Concept Creator/Choreographer/Director: Jay Preston, Voice Actor Voice Attack You Can Do This: Hope and Help for New Teachers Jovon Miller Account Supervisor: Ashley Goodson Erik Bravo, Voice Actor Tami Romani Managing Director of Seattle International Dance Creative Director: Joe Mullen Producer: Kat Lambrix Poema: Renunciamiento/Poem: renunciation Festival: Constanze Villines Executive Creative Director: Fabián Toro, Voice Actor Read by: Debbe Hirata Origins Chuck Rachford, Ryan Honey Composer : Brian Crain Video Editor: Jason Hirata By Neil deGrasse Tyson and Donald Goldsmith Executive Producer: Cary Potterfield Production Director: Oswaldo Laverde Videographer/Photographer: Dane Doerflinger Read by Kevin Kenerly Managing Director: Alyssa Huggins Sound Engineer: Claudio Durán Rey Voiceover Coach: Jodi Gottlieb Blackstone Audio Producer: Billy Mack Super Series Promo Telemundo Internacional Voiceover Recording Engineer: Blair Pickar Alibaba’s World Pizza My Heart Save Our Shores :30 Elvis Castillo Training Daze By Porter Erisman and read by George Newbern J. Michael Collins, Voice Actor Malcolm-Jamal Warner Blackstone Audio Producer: Don Reddin Choices Recession Proof Graduate SPOKEN WORD ENGLISH Chumash Casino Resort Kabir Singh & Jared Baisley By Charlie Hoehn and read by Ray Chase OUTSTANDING SPOKEN WORD OR Debbe Hirata, Voice Actor Executive Producer: James Tonn and Greg Lawrence STORYTELLING - BEST PERFORMANCE Agent: Nate Tico Producer and Editor: Greg Lawrence, TRAILERS, COMMERCIALS, Animation Supervisor: Szymon Weglarski, Proofer: Emily Derr In Freedom’s Cause PROMOS & NARRATION Jonathan Dorfman Podium Publishing Executive Producer: Bill Heid Art Director: Karl Wolf Additional Writers: Aaron Fullan, Nick Huizenga, OUTSTANDING NATIONAL TV Client: Jason Lavan StorySelling Bill Heid, Nick Heid COMMERCIAL, BEST VOICEOVER Composer: Erik Appelwick for Egg-Music By JW Dicks and Nick Nanton Assistant Producer: Aaron Fullan, Nick Heid Copywriter: Eric Luoma Read by: Ray Porter BJ’s Restaurants Consulting Producer: Nick Huizenga Creative Director - Music: John Hermanson Editor: Jonathan Yen Chris Fries, Voice Actor Executive Producer: Bill Heid Creative Director/Strategist: Bruce Tait Executive Producer: James Tonn and Greg Lawrence Nature Valley by General Mills London Casting Director: Philip Glassborow Director: Lutz Vogel, Zoe Wishart Producer: Greg Lawrence Maxx Hennard, Voice Actor Music Composer: John Campbell Executive Producer: Judy Brink, Andrew Linsk Proofer: Travis Chaney Package Designer: Steve Tyrrell/Tyrrell Creative Wendy’s - Fancy – ish Executive Producer - Music: Eric Fawcett Podium Publishing Project Manager: Mark Drury Robert Garson, Voice Actor Producer: Alexander Linsk Recording Engineer and Voice Track Editor: Mark Drury Agent: Access Talent Project Manager: Heidi Anderson SPANISH Sound Designer/Foley Artist: Rob Jorgensen Prodcuer: Kaplan Thayler Voice Over Actor: Debbe Hirata OUTSTANDING COMMERCIAL DEMO The Cast: A Full Cast, Skandar Keynes, Brian Client: Wendy’s Voice Over Casting/Coaching: Nancy Wolfson REEL, BEST SPANISH VOICEOVER Blessed, Billy Boyd, James Cosmo, Joanne Froggatt TaxAct “You Got This” Voice Over Recording Engineer: Dave Howe Writer/Director/Producer: John Fornof Alison Fried, Voice Actor Erik Bravo, Voice Actor OUTSTANDING LOCAL TV PROMO, Powder Burns: An Original Western Audio Drama Hillary Clinton “America Deserves Better” Kristy Liles, Voice Actor Announcer: Bill Burrows Pat Duke, Voice Actor BEST VOICEOVER Director/Producer: Juan Camilo Jurado Associate Producer: Ben Meadors KARE 11 Olympic Dreams Roberto Sanchez, Voice Actor Casting Director: Donna McKenna OUTSTANDING TV PROGRAM Beau Weaver, Voice Actor Composer: Benjamin James NARRATION - DOCUMENTARY, Olympic Dreams OUTSTANDING TV COMMERCIAL, Creator: David Gregory BEST VOICEOVER KARE 11 Minneapolis BEST SPANISH VOICEOVER Director: Noah DeBiase Director of Marketing and Creative Services: Engineer: Noah DeBiase Dead End Express Hyundai Puerto Rico Erik Candiani Leading Actor: John Wesley Shipp Chris Fries Fabian Toro, voice Actor Local News Promo, Wav 3 News Music: Chris Allen American Genius - National Geographic Channel Account executive: Iralis Jiménez Natalie Roers, Voice Actor Principal Cast: Maddy Burns, Matt Locker, Jeffrey Jeff Wilburn Sojitz de Puerto Rico Corporation: Pablo Martínez Producer/editor: Kris Baete C. Hawkins, Phil Carroll, Jason Babinsky, Chris ESPN Draft Academy 2015 “Inside Out” Hispanic TV Trailer Campaign - Writer: Rob Thomas McCarrell, David Gregory, Robert Vaughn, Wayne Diriki Mack Pixar Animation Studios KOVR Sacramento Sad Weather Lab #1 Gregory, Florencia Lozano, Lance Roberts Coordinating Producer : Jose Morales Christian Lanz, Voice Actor Beau Weaver, Voice Actor Producer: David Gregory Producers : Luis Aldea and Kristen Lappas Director, Multicultural Initiatives: Christine Benitez Script Editor: Eddie Schnecker Ready Detroit: Your Guide to Being Prepared “Alien Sharks: EVP/Animation Marketing Brand Lead, Creative Writer: David Gregory CBS Detroit WWJ-TV Director: David Sameth Return to the Abyss” (Discovery Channel) Producer: Paul Pytlowany Elemental War - Jovon Miller Productions Manager, Marketing: Catherine Goode J.V. Martin Debbe Hirata, Voice Actor Producer/Coordinator: Christian Olguin, The First 48 OUTSTANDING RADIO Agent: Vanessa Gilbert Sabrina Gimenez Dion Graham COMMERCIAL, BEST VOICEOVER Artistic Director of Seattle International Dance SVP/Creative Director: Destiny Esposito Agent: Robyn Stecher Festival: Cyrus Khambatta Aquaventure - on the rides Co-Series Producer: Joey Grossfield, Penny Fearon Canon Maxify / “Back office” / “Tras Bastidores” Copy Editor: Debbe Hirata Guy Harris Editor: Michelle Brundige Allen Alexander, Voice Actor Costumes: Jovon Miller, Jennifer Trinidad Producer: Guy Harris and Chris Atkins Executive Producer: Alexis Robie Agent: Wendy Curiel Dancer - “Earth”: Jalen Forward (Cont.) 18 19 Kapiolani Medical Center Pediatric Services OUTSTANDING BODY OF WORK, Creative Director: Andrew Heckel Voice Over Actor: Debbe Hirata Cindy Ramirez VOICEOVER Creative Director Discovery US Hispanic: Luis Voice Over Casting/Coaching: Nancy Wolfson Creative Director: Arnie Yew Duarte International Voice Over Recording Engineer: Dave Howe Producer: Ed Clapperton John Amos Creative Director: Danilo Alvarez Julius Jr. Sound Engineering: Ross Okamura Kansas City Symphony Memorial Day 2015, NFL Manager U.S. Hispanic Integration: Rekha Patricio Steph Lynn Robinson, Voice Actor Kansas City Chief’s Kingdom commercial spots, Las Vegas Total Drama Island - Cartoon Network Ad spot-George Lucas, Empire S OUTSTANDING VIDEO GAME Chris Fries Sunday Muse, Voice Actor Producer/Engineer: Frank G CHARACTER, BEST VOICEOVER Rdio, Fall 2014, National Radio Campaign Creators: Tom McGillis and Jennifer Pertsch Natalie Roers Beau Weaver Tahm Kench - The River King-League of Legends Producer: Tom McGillis Theatrical Trailer: Into The Wild, Paramount Pat Duke Voice Actor Precision Garage Door (Garage Sale) The Amazing World Of Gumball (Cartoon Network) Vantage, Craig Murray Productions Christina Smith “James Gordon”-Batman: Arkham Origins Jessica McDonald, Voice Actor EVP of Marketing: Guy Endore-Kaiser Creative Director: J.D. 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1 ROBERT REDFORD’S “START & RESTART REALISTIC DIALOGUE TRICK.” Conjunctive Lines There are those times when you will have the power to change words in a voice over We can get all the kids, water toys in the car AND the dog. project. If you are challenged with making the dialogue more realistic, here’s a trick, That’s what she said, SO, I guess we’ll have to submit. which Robert Redford uses in most every movie he’s ever done. A character will start a We don’t make rude noises, NOR two we open our mouths while we chew. thought, get a better way of putting it, and go on with the better way of communicating the thought. For example – 7 BATS & RATS TECHNIQUE “Morgan is serving five years for aggravated – Give a long tight “Cartoon Kiss” into your open palm. That should generate a high- he’s in the slammer for busting a guy up bad.” pitched sound. Wiggle your palm as you do. The perfect bat or rat. What’s the difference between Bat and Rats and a Cartoon Kiss? One’s more fun. 2 MONTGOMERY CLIFF’S, “READ IT LIKE A FIRST GRADER” TECHNIQUE. This is a technique that is attributed to the great stage and film actor, Montgomery 8 COMMIT TO ONE CHOICE MINDSET Cliff. When he would first read a script, he would read it carefully, word by word, Before you send in two takes for an audition, consider two factors. making sure he was not performing. Why? He said that since he didn’t know what was 1. Which of the performances realizes the story best? on the pages, he couldn’t make any intelligent choices to realize the scene or story 2. When you send in two takes, you are begging for a comparison between the two? with performance. If he did perform it prematurely, it could very well lead him into That means someone is in a position to decide one is not as good as the other. choices that didn’t realize the story. This is the kind of work I do alone, and prior to a read with other actors or with the director. 9 QUIET AND CLOSE AGENDA. Be on the lookout for any scene or line where you can perform it as if you were in a 3 THE PERFECT WORD TRICK. close-up shot. Actors tend to work as if they were on stage, rather than in film. Just If I don’t have control of the text or the ability to change words, I will occasionally take because there is an exclamation mark at the end of the sentence doesn’t mean it has time or a pause prior to saying a word (particularly if it’s a strange or complex word) to to be loud. Sure, if the line is, “May Day! May Day!” you’ll need to get loud, but many give the impression that I just thought of it or chose it carefully. It’s rather like paralleling don’t need to be performed with volume. the author’s journey during his or her first draft. Quiet and Close Lines “About two weeks ago, I was talking to my boss about the…”potentiality” of a raise. “I’ve told you before, I’m not going to wait! “Who’s in charge here!” 4 THE ONE WAY NEVER TO SLATE. “Ladies and Gentlemen. May I have you attention.” Dead. By that I mean, without personality. It’s a habit performers get into as they do audition after audition. They sound serious, even bored and have it in their mind 10 DON’T BE IN THE MOMENT TECHNIQUE that it doesn’t count. In an audition, everything counts from your first fricative. This flies in the face of what is taught in acting school, but sometimes people are Consider the listener. Someone is listening to dozens, if not hundreds of auditions distracted, doing something in additional to talking to someone. It creates a different in a row. The first thing they hear is a performer who doesn’t reveal personality, and sound. Look for moments in scripts, text and copy, where a character is doing perhaps sound bored. something as well as talking to someone.

5 “KILLER DIALECT CATCH PHRASE” TRICK. 11 THE SOUND OF THINKING MIC TECHNIQUE There will come a time when you will be asked if you can do a particular accent or The convention in voice over for thinking is quiet, as if to oneself. To make it effective, dialect, and a director or producer will want you to give them a “taste.” Don’t trot out an you need to marry your hushed tones (not whispered) with close microphone improvised sentence or passage. Have a sentence that you know well, which shows off technique. In text, particularly in books, when a character is thinking, it is in italics. What your abilities in the best light and includes many of the sound adjustments and changes you do is go from standard mic position, to close mic, which is 2 or three inches from you must make to perform the dialect correctly. I refer to these as “Killer Dialect Catch the mic. That way, you will be at the same relative volume as your performance with Phrases.” It is best if you make up your own. Here are a couple that work for me. more volume, farther away, but it will fulfill the convention of thinking. British: All that glitters is not gold. 12 “WHEN THE TEXT GETS HOT, GET COLD TECHNIQUE.” Russian: I have to grab little rodent for to ring his neck. This is from the audiobook narration world, but I apply it to all mediums. As a performer, you are partners with the text. When a passage in a book, or scene gets 6 NEVER SWING ON “AND” REMINDER provocative or evocative like sensual or grisly passages, back off your expressiveness The habit of connecting two products, services, or general concepts with a conjunctive and attitude toward the material. Why? You want to leave plenty of room for the came from advertising. “It’s delicious, kids love’em AND it’s good for you.” It makes listener to experience their emotional journey rather than yours. no sense to use valuable emphasis on a conjunctive, AND especially by getting loud for emphasis. Visit patfraley.com 30 31 Build your voiceover and acting career with Backstage.

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