You enter the audition booth only to find that your dialogue partner is a dud; a guy or gal who can’t read, can’t act, had garlic for dinner the night before, and is in favor of paying more income tax. At first you might want to say, “Oy vey, why me God?” Then you realize…
I always wonder why. “The farther back you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.”– Sir Winston Churchill There are times when I’m positive I must be driving most of my colleagues bananas. Some things never change. I see, and then I ask; I hear, and then I ask; I read and…
“It’s all in the feeling process.” Hk The statement contained in the box above was placed in a box by me in order to describe the person who made the statement. Said person is of course a complete dummy. Voice over is as competitive an acting craft as any other. Each and every successful actor…
“Meet and Respect Your Director”I talked Did they listen?If so, did they think with caring?Was there an understanding?Of what I was sharing? I was their man, of national tootNot a chance of disreputeIn all honesty, after my introductionI expected, nay, warranted a salute! Good, bad, sad, glad, mad, happy, snappy, crappy, nappy, lappy, lippy, snippy,…
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…
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…
“Each alone must seek out another Then the two join hands as friendsProviding the rhythms of a new parade And on it will go, and grow For only friendship will ease the vacancy, Experienced by those of us Within our selected art form” HK I grew up hearing my father’s words and deeds. His doctrine…
During the winters of my junior and high school years, when I spent fewer hours competing in school sports, I often devoted industrious days and weeks working in many of the tiny legit theatres, which dotted a narrow stretch of Santa Monica Blvd. Today, “Equity Waiver” productions are usually presented in these houses with less…
Many of the subjects I write about are generated from the literally thousands of questions I’ve had to deal with in our world of the commercial voice over. While commercial voice over is definitely an acting craft, there is a certain amount of difference between how the actors relate during the commercial VO audition and…
Self-direct as opposed to self-destruct. As always, the basic rules are so simple sounding. The problem for many actors is the lack of detail and observance of the basic rules. 1. Before studying your audition script, read and understand the directions. If the producer took the trouble to put their directions in writing, it behooves…