Elley Ray
An award-winning BON VIVANT, this theatrical alchemist awakens, inspires and delights ALL who witness her unique form of MAGIC! ELLEY is a true veteran to the industry and has traversed stages, film sets, television and radio studios for over 40 years, delighting audiences World-Wide. Her talent and compassion to share are unparalleled. Elley voices a multitude of genres including delightful characters on animations such as, My Little Pony, The Becky and Bagel Show, Corn & Peg, Hotel Transylvania, Cyberchase, Arthur and so much more, she also narrates the TV Series, Guilty Rich. National campaigns for companies such as Belair Direct and Subaru, not to mention juror for the Emmy’s . With her need to give back, Elley teaches internationally from conventions around the word, to her Honorary Doctorate of Laws for her contributions to the Arts and Humanities and several universities and the like. If you want to know what true transformation looks like, experience Elley Ray and see inspired creativity and talent at its best, because she gives it to audiences world-wide in the hopes of uplifting humanity and it shows! Elley is ONE OF A KIND!
www.ElleyRay.com
Deb Munro
Deb is an award winning veteran of the online world working from home for most of her career, with over 30 years experience as a Voice Actor/Director and 20 years as a coach. While Deb is best known for her roles as ‘Mai’ in the animated series “DragonBall and DragonBall GT”, ‘Carla Carumba’ in the series “Benjamin The Elephant”, “Pirates of the Caribbean” video game for Disney, “NeverWinters Night” with Bioware and more, she is also the voice for “Makeful TV”, “ABC15”, “FLIPP APP”, Imaging Voice for several radio stations, thousands of narrations, national commercials, and more. Not only is Deb a highly respected and recognized talent, she likes to give back and has been able to do so by teaching voice acting/acting worldwide for the past 20 years. A voice talent first, she brings in her own personal experience and uniquely honest approach that tells it like it is without sugar coating and false promises, helping thousands of talents succeed this craft quickly and successfully.
Deb is engaging, fun, has enough energy to feed the planet and truly loves what she does and can’t wait to share it with the world.
Mr. Mic (Your Host)
You’ve heard him but have you seen him? Our mystery judge, “Mr. Mic” is a top voice talent and entertainer you know, but we will never reveal his true identity! Whether it’s the voice of a top Television network or the multitude of voices on prime time cartoons. From radio and television commercials, promos for TV, movie trailers, radio imaging, narration and animated television shows and features. He has acted in several plays and has written comedy and drama for radio and animation. Recently doing voice replacements in film and tv for top celebrities…You can hear him on famous networks or on any number of animated shows but if you listen hard enough, can you guess who “Mr. Mic” really is?
J. Michael Collins
During his career as a voice actor, voice over coach, and demo producer, J. Michael Collins has mentored some of the industry’s fastest rising stars. He has jump-started the careers of working voice over pros struggling through a lull in bookings and helped to change the lives of his coaching students by teaching them how to build their businesses beyond their expectations.
With a rare ear for nuance, and a prolific career as a top-booking talent, award-winning demo producer, and even casting for a number of his clients, J. Michael can break down and analyze your delivery with uncommon ease and expertise. More importantly, his proven performance-oriented coaching techniques will harness your strengths and help you rise above your weaknesses, learning how to give the right read the first time, every time.
A Canadian born actor, dancer, and stunt performer. Strongly recognized for her motion capture performance roles and voice work, landing her first feature film “Rise of the Planet of the Apes,” playing two lead live-action roles. The lead character of Christmas Carol in “A Fairly Odd Christmas” Her latest and most rewarding accomplishment to date is having worked alongside legend Steven Spielberg in the feature “The BFG.” Devyn’s voiceover journey started when she joined “Barbies Rock N’ Royal” movie, voicing the spunky rocker girl, Zia. You can also hear Devyn in the hit anime series “Beyblade Burst” voicing the role of Shasa. Joining the cast of “My Little Pony:Friendship Is Magic”, as Ocellus, deems to be one of Devyn’s favourite and most rewarding roles. Devyn’s passion continues on and she is always striving to create,learn new skills, expand her horizons and hopes to explore the world!
Cliff Zellman
Cliff is an established Producer, Director, Audio Engineer, Editor, and
Director of Talent Development for ACM Talent I Management/Automotive Division. “I’ve been in the production industry for over 40 years and pretty much recorded, produced, directed and edited just about anything & everything audio. My firm foundation in music has been instrumental (pun intended) in my success on the “other side of the glass”.
ACM Talent I Management 1-2020 to Present
Director of Talent Development / Automotive Division.
Recruit, train and prepare professional Voice Talent for submission to advertising agencies and Dealerships Nationwide. ACM Talent is a uniquely positioned management company representing the most accomplished and cutting-edge industry talent, providing the highest level and most diverse opportunities in voiceover.
Owner. A-MAZING DEMOS – Creating custom Demos for the Professional VO Industry.
www.a-mazingdemos.com
RadioVision LP. 1995 to Present. Dallas, TX
Director Audio Production/Client Creative Services for RadioVision, a full-service marketing & advertising agency.
Saban / DIC / Disney 1992-95 Burbank, Ca.
Audio engineering specializing in live dialogue recording for animation. Programs include “The Power Rangers”, “Sonic The Hedgehog”, “Creepy Crawlers”, “Little Mouse on the Prairie”, and “Where in the World is Carmen San Diego”.
Fidelity Recording Studios 1979-93, Studio City, Ca.
Chief Audio Engineer and Head of In-House Production. Performed in recording, production, editing, mixing and all aspects of the professional recording studio.
Davlen Studios, 1977-79, home to such artists as Fleetwood Mac, Hall & Oats, Al Stewart, England Dan & John Ford Coley, Alice Cooper and others.
1978 – Graduated from The University of Sound Arts, Los Angeles.
In Taipei, Taiwan, I taught audio engineering and music production while recording mainstream pop artists on 6 separate occasions for various labels including Music
Erik Sheppard
With nearly 30 years of industry experience, internationally recognized voiceover expert Erik Sheppard is the owner and head agent of The Sheppard Agency, a premier talent agency representing an elite roster of union and non-union voice talent from around the globe. Starting with his first voiceover gig at the age of 17 he has worked in the industry as a talent and a coach and now oversees an agency booking thousands of high profile projects per year. He is also a founding member The VO Agent Alliance and an active and vocal advocate for voiceover actors and the VO industry as a whole. His career, appearances and related projects have been profiled on The Learning Channel and countless industry blogs, podcasts, publications, social media outlets and his YouTube channel “The Outspoken”. If it is happening in the world of voiceover, chances are Erik is involved.
Andia Winslow – What hasn’t she done. Let’s start with her Awards: Emmy, Telly, Society of Voice Arts, One Voice // 2021 “Voice Artist of the Year” to name a few. Yale alumna and Founder of The Fit Cycle, Andia Winslow is an On-Air TV Personality, Master Certified Fitness Professional, retired Professional Golfer, National Parks Foundation Ambassador and contributor for the American Heart Association Go Red For Women campaign. Look for her on the silver screen in the TV series reboot of the classic baseball movie “A League of their Own” (2022) and as golf pioneer Ann Gregory in the film “Playing Through” (2022) andiawinslow.com
Dave Fennoy
Dave Fennoy is one of the most in demand voice actors in Los Angeles. He is known for his versatility, providing voices for commercials, narrations, TV promos, award shows, animation and video games.
Dave has voiced of a wide variety of creatures, characters, heroes, warriors, wizard and weirdos on more than 400 games, including some of the industry’s biggest titles, The Award winning, Walking Dead Game, Fortnite: Save The World, Spiderman, Telltale’s Batman and Batman Arkham Knights, World of Warcraft, World of Starcraft, Metal Gear, DOTA 2, Transformers, Mafia 3, Delta Force, Gears Of War 5, Final Fantasy XV, and Skyrim the Elder Scrolls. IMDB has named Dave Fennoy as “one of the 20 best male game voices of all time”.
He has been a regular in numerous cartoon series including Star Wars: The Clone Wars, OK, K.O. Let’s Be Heroes, Archer, The Lebrons, Kim Possible, Ben 10, Darkwing Duck, New Kids on The Block, Pro Stars, Johnny Quest and Sonic The Hedgehog.
His promo resume includes CBS, ABC, CNN, The WB, Fox, Showtime, Starz, ESPN, MLB Network, The NFL Network, The Disney Channel and TV One.
Commercial voice credits include Lexus, McDonalds, Corona Beer, KFC, Toyota, Chrysler, ATT, Louisiana Sea Food, Time Life Music R&B/Gospel, and Southern Company.
Narration credits include programs for National Geographic, Discovery Channel, and Science Channel.
Mr. Fennoy is also a much sought-after VO instructor, conducting workshops in cities across the United States and internationally, as well as coaching privately from his home studio or via Skype. He teaches, commercial, narration, and tv promo, but is best known for his Voice Acting for Video Game workshops.
Visit DaveFennoy.com for more information.
David Fennoy
Check out my 2015 Video Game VO Demo
Top Agent – Portia Scott. The Director of Voiceover at Coast to Coast Talent Group where she runs the division with a great staff representing both adult and youth talent in all areas of voiceover. Portia’s clients have booked hundreds of broadcast TV & Radio Commercials and several National Campaigns such as Wells Fargo, Wendy’s, and T-Mobile to name a few. Her talent can been found as series regulars on Disney TV Animation, Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, Dreamworks TV and Feature Animation, and a plethora of Animated Feature Films. https://www.ctctalent.com/
The VOBoss Lady herself – Anne Ganguzza – a professional voice actor, coach, and award-winning producer with a dynamic presence and a passion for all things voice + technology. Her networking group, the VO Peeps, offers meetups and workouts with incredible opportunities for feedback and growth; while her VO BOSS podcast can be heard weekly around the globe. Anne’s voiceover credits include United Healthcare, Delta, Pearson, Mercedes Benz, PayPal, Wells Fargo, Michelin, Credit Suisse, Cisco, Toyota, Panasonic, Baxter, Xerox, and more…
Armin Hierstetter
Armin Hierstetter, born 1970, is a German entrepreneur most well known as
the founder of bodalgo, a multi-award-winning and leading online casting
platform for voiceover talents. Since its launch in January 2008, bodalgo has
become an integral part of the backbone of the voiceover industry. The
website features more than 12,000 professionals from all over the world.
Unlike other platforms of its kind, bodalgo encourages direct client-talent
contact.
Before turning to the voiceover business, Armin worked in magazine
publishing for close to two decades, most notably as Editor of
“PENTHOUSE” and highly successful teenage magazine “Sugar” as well as
Publishing Director for the men’s magazine „FHM”. He also has a marketing
degree.
Armin lives with his wife and two daughters in Munich, Bavaria.
Following a 25-year career with NBC, San Diego, and the recipient of 11 Emmy Awards for audio production and sound design, James Alburger opened VoiceActing.com in 1998 as an independent voice actor, performance coach and audio post-production expert. Between 2007 and 2014, James co-produced the VoiceOver International Creative Experience (VOICE) convention, the first International convention for voiceover talent. During its ground-breaking 5-event run, the VOICE conventions literally changed the industry by bringing the International voiceover community together for the first time and spawning numerous other voiceover conferences and events.
James literally “wrote the book” on voice acting! Most voiceover professionals consider his book to be “the bible” of voice acting. While most books on voiceover focus on how the author “did it,” The Art of Voice Acting is a comprehensive manual of voiceover and acting techniques that focuses on how the reader can succeed in the craft and business of voiceover. The book is used Internationally in the U.S., the U.K., Europe and China as a performing arts and voice acting textbook, and is considered “the bible of the voiceover industry” by most voiceover professionals.
James currently works with aspiring voice talent through one-on-one personalized coaching and workshops. For more information about James Alburger, please visit www.VoiceActing.com.
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Kim Hurdon
Kim Hurdon is a voice casting/director with over thirty years of experience under her belt, has appeared as a voice specialist on TV, radio and in print, and has been dubbed “The Queen Of Voice” by ACTRA.
She is the pre-eminent voice director for video games in Toronto and has worked on tons of franchises including: Warframe, Far Cry, Ghost Recon, Watchdogs, and Assassin’s Creed along with 3 unannounced games that are recording as you read this.
Kim is a judge for the Daytime Emmys for several animation categories. Her own animation credits include: Super Wish, Red Ketchup, Molly of Denali, Ollie‘s Pack, Blues Clues and You, The Magic School Bus Rides Again, PURST: Agent Binky, Rusty Rivets and Max & Ruby.
Her commercial credits are too long to list so let’s just say she’s worked on every single brand you can think of. Any vehicle, any bank, any fast food, any pain med, you get the idea …
Over the past three years Kim’s company; KH Casting, has expanded dramatically and now employs 7 voice casting/directors whom, all told, bring well over a hundred years of experience to the table. She is also the executive director of On The Mic Training which is the only accredited VO school in North America! If you need anything voice related, Kim’s got you.
Julie-Ann Dean (moderator)
Alexander Cantrell (moderator)
We are thrilled to announce our next Guest Judge – returning Narration category U.V.O.S Champion 2020 – Alexander Cantrell. New to the voice acting world, he is now an award winning voice actor, actor and writer.
Alexander began his career path at at home, in front of a television, some epic fantasy playing on the screen. He had always had a passion of re-enacting scenes and becoming characters from his favorite films, such as The Dark Crystal, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Pirates of the Caribbean and his favorite, The Lord of the Rings trilogy among many others.
He began this training at the age of ten, with The Alliance Theater of Atlanta. He would go on to join a small summer time acting camp over the next five years of his life. The Atlanta Street Theater. Throughout his teen years he would take many more classes and learn much about the art of acting but wouldn’t be signed to an agent until he became a young man at the age of twenty three.
Alexander V. Cantrell made his Tv/Film debut with a small speaking role of “Book Clerk” on episode 9 “Estrella y Mar ” of Lodge 49. He would go on to try his hand at voice over work and find success there as well winning First place of “The Ultimate VO Survivor” Narration category.
Look for Alexander V. Cantrell in his Director and Producer debut of “Burnt” coming 2021.
Jonathan Sconza (moderator)
Returning Champion in the Animation/Gaming category – Jonathan Sconza joins the U.V.O.S. stage as one of our Guest Judges
This wild and crazy personality is entertaining, talented and ready to help our future contestants enter the UVOS spotlight. Jonathan is an animation/character powerhouse and we are graetful to have him join our stage one more time.
Jonathan Sconza is an award winning improviser, voice actor and theatre creator from Toronto, ON. As a voice actor, he’s played characters for Discovery Kids, Nelvana, and CBC Comedy, and lent his voice to a dozen commercials for tv and radio. His improv career began in high school with the Canadian Improv Games where he was awarded a National Gold Medal. Since then, his comedy career has expanded to performing in shows across Toronto and in his improv/sketch comedy duo, Nose Bros. He is a Worlds Biggest Improv Tournament finalist, a writer and performer in Toronto’s 24 hour sketch festival and the creator and co-host of Bad Improv, a bi-monthly improv comedy show. He is also the host and creator of The T.O V.O Podcast, a weekly interview show featuring the very best from Toronto’s voice over community. As a theatre creator, He is the co-founder and associate producer of The Theatre Circuit, which was nominated for best small theatre company by NOW Magazine in 2018. To learn more about Jonathan you can head on over to jonathansconza.com
