You and the Director
The on going question: What kind of a director was he to work with?The question I ask, not as a director, but as the educator would be: What would you do if there were no directors to work with?“Most actors who have not studied the acting craft of voice over will go up in a...
Read More Why Do I Teach?
Teaching makes my learning endless! Teacher and Student “It so grieves me to lose good friends. Departure should not be reason enough for a relationship to end. When there is mutual respect, and those in a relationship thrive on helping and stimulating the other to grow to endless horizons, then why should we accept departure?...
Read More Biblical Terms for the Professional Actor
I’m so guilty of living in the past that there are times when even I can’t stand it. My love of the old movies, as I watched them as a kid, remains and will always live on in my mind’s eye and in my heart’s throbbing. I grew up believing almost everything I saw on...
Read More 2010
Not today There’s no acting allowed We need no others We have our own crowd From Kalmenson & Kalmenson Casting voices While delivering education Sounding trumpets of joy Sending greetings with elation That wonderful time of the year Has again come to help us We’re not looking back But forward to a new start Sending...
Read More The Voice Over Audition: History + Pursuing Excellence
Many of our younger thespians are unaware of what transpired prior to their entering the commercial voice over world. Others are in search of the most beneficial way of continuing their pursuits of excellence as a talent. When I’m asked what it was like a few years ago, almost all are surprised at my history...
Read More So, What’s New?
“So, what’s new?” Are you inquiring as to the welfare of my family, or are you asking me, da harv, the casting director, the freelance director, the guy running a school, an office, a recording studio, or just plain Harvey Kalmenson, a man who finds himself, constantly running, like many of his colleagues, trying to...
Read More What influenced me to get into this business?
If you hang out long enough, and enjoy even a modicum of success, someone is bound to ask you how you got into this business. “How’d you get your start?” is the usual way the question is posed. Others are perhaps more specific; they’ll ask, “How did you get into voice over?” If it happens...
Read More Agents
Agents. (Necessary, but not necessarily evil.) * The “commercial talent agent;” you will by necessity have to be in a working relationship with them.* Without an agent, the voice over artist has little chance of success (in Los Angeles). It may be of interest if we begin by understanding what an agent actually is, and...
Read More Now What Do I Do?
Taking a page from “Mission Impossible,” your goal, if you choose to accept it, is to make your heart sing. Sing with the joy of knowing you are attempting to succeed, with no thoughts of odds, or predictions.— hk It’s your bed, my friend. Stop calling it a business. It isn’t a business. It’s a...
Read More World War II
Expect, feel an emotional twinge, reserved for those with hearts large enough, to relive a moment in time, which changed the breath and shape of our country, and the world. It was an era of endless tests, developed at the end of our country’s worst crisis since the Civil War, and a depression of such...
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