Chuck and Stacey are honored to welcome a living legend in the voice

over industry, 8-time Daytime Emmy winning voice director, Andrea

Romano. In Part 1 of this special 3-part episode series, Andrea begins

the story of how her personal and professional dreams began to come true

growing up in Long Island, New York with her large, supportive family.

After

graduating from SUNY Fredonia in Theatre Arts and one year of graduate

school, she moved to New York City to act professionally, supporting

herself working in retail and doing phone sales.

Setting her

sights on California, she took a temp job with the talent agency, Abrams

Rubaloff and went on to become the youngest franchised agent in

Hollywood at that time taking voice over classes so she could understand

what a voice actor experiences. After a time there, Andrea was invited

to start the VO division at Special Artists with an A-list celebrity

client roster.

When friend and colleague, Ginny McSwain called

to tell Andrea she was leaving Hanna-Barbera, she jumped at the chance

to apply for the casting director job working alongside, Gordon Hunt.

Andrea shares her experiences working with acting greats like Daws

Butler, Jonathan Winters and William Christopher as well as helping

start voice over careers for Mark Hamill and Jessica Walter.

While

still at Hanna-Barbera she was able to work on other projects like

DuckTales, Rescue Rangers and Winnie the Pooh. A fearless risk taker,

Andrea signed on to direct for the newly formed Warner Brothers TV

animation where she started working with Steven Spielberg on his new

productions.

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