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December 04, 2016 EP 224 Harvey & Cathy Kalmenson: Voice Over Casting Icons/Creators of Kalmenson Teaching Method
Chuck and Stacey are honored to welcome teaching and voice over casting icons, Harvey and Cathy Kalmenson to the show. Since 1993, they have been casting and directing radio and TV commercials, animation, audiobooks and video games and are the creators of The famous Kalmenson Method, the highly respected voice over acting teaching program.

Originally from Chicago, Cathy shares her background working in talent payment at Leo Burnett Advertising in Chicago then at Abrams Rubiloff in Los Angeles. She would then go on to agenting at Tisherman Agency and in the celebrity division at Special Artists. Her love for casting was discovered at The Voicecaster and would lead her and Harvey to form Kalmenson and Kalmenson in 1993 that to date boasts a database of more than 28,000 talented voice over actors.

Harvey explains the origin of his popular nickname “Da Harv” and how his background in legit theatre and stage managing led him to accept a job voice directing at Abrams Rubiloff where he met his future wife and business partner, Cathy. Harvey expresses his passion for voice over actors to be method actors and the importance of knowing “why” they are saying the words on the page.

The two talk about what keeps them inspired to be a part of the voice over business and Chuck and Stacey sing the praises of the Kalmenson’s for their amazing industry contributions in casting and teaching. Cathy speaks to some of the current commercial trends that include being truthful, vulnerable and authentic.

They talk about what talent buyers and producers are wanting from voice over talent and the ways they rely on Harvey and Cathy to think outside the box and find them who they want for their projects. They are adept at translating writer’s speak into agent’s speak and then into actor’s speak so they can capture the essence of the copy.

Harvey talks about the importance of improvisation in life and in acting. He encourages talent to not throw away their craft when doing commercials and be responsive to what is happening. He adds that directing commercials is some of the most difficult work to do.

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29 min
November 27, 2016 EP 223 Jim Meskimen: The Master of Celebrity Impressions/Voice Over Actor/Comedian
Chuck and Stacey are thrilled to share the rest of their conversation with Jim Meskimen, versatile TV, Film and Voice Over Actor of The Boondocks and Avengers Assemble, world's best celebrity impressionist, star of the original live show Jimpressions and host of the Celebrity Podcast on YouTube. Jim talks about his most challenging on-camera project to date and his audition philosophy of continuing to put himself out there, not overthinking it and having a fast turnaround.

He shares the things he won’t do as an actor and breaks out some incredible impressions of Donald Trump, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Tommy Lee Jones, Robert DeNiro and Morgan Freeman. He raves about his talented family and gives Chuck and Stacey a special copy of the award-winning audiobook he recently directed with a super talented cast that includes voice actors Nancy Cartwright and Fred Tatasciore.

Jim speaks to the inspiration for creating his one-man show, Jimpressions, and gives great advice for moving your career forward. He reflects on why he thinks he is still working and what he would do as a career if he weren’t a performer. Jim talks about some of his biggest challenges when he was younger and what life changing advice helped him end his dependence on drugs. Jim goes on to encourage people to take control of their own lives and not rely on substances to be creative. He shares what projects he is working on for the future and his responsibility to be positive and put good out into the world.

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38 min
November 20, 2016 EP 222 Jim Meskimen: The Master of Celebrity Impressions/Voice Over Actor/Comedian
Chuck and Stacey are excited to get BUZZ-ed with the incredible Jim Meskimen, TV, Film and Voice Over Actor heard in The Boondocks and Avengers Assemble, celebrity impressionist, star of the live show Jimpressions and host of the Celebrity Podcast on YouTube. Jim talks about growing up in show business watching his mom, actress Marion Ross, who played Mrs. Cunningham in the TV series Happy Days.

Jim shares the epiphany he had during a brief exchange with actor Harvey Keitel in Europe that helped him decide to pursue a career as a performer instead of a painter. He shares his love, respect and admiration for his Mom, celebrating the wonderful things about her and what he learned from her about navigating the ups and downs of the entertainment business.

Jim breaks down his process for mastering an impression and voice matching a celebrity or historic figure like President John F. Kennedy by using the signature tone and textures of his own voice. He talks about the importance of having good training in improvisation and striking a balance to respect the words as they are written. He reflects on what his strengths are as an actor and voice over actor that includes his love of words, his skills as a writer and the musicality of the language.

He tells the story of the summer job he had doing storyboards at Hanna-Barbera that led to working for Rank and Bass on the original Thundercats series as the lead character designer. And later when he was cast in the new Thundercats series, getting to share some of his original designs with the show’s creative team. Jim describes his incredible experience competing on NBC’s America’s Got Talent in 2013.

He shares some advice he got from his Mom and other people he respects that has helped him in his career that speaks to staying true to your dreams and having persistence. Jim offers some great advice to other voice over actors about making no excuses to create your own content and if you keep doing what you love and want to do eventually someone will pay you for it. The episode closes with Jim reflecting on one of his most unique career experiences to date.

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37 min
November 13, 2016EP 221 Konrad Zukowski: The Genius Behind The Kaotica Eyeball (Perfect Portable Sound Isolation)
Chuck and Stacey are excited to sit down and chat with, Konrad Zukowski, the creator of the Kaotica Eyeball while he was in Los Angeles from Canada. Konrad talks about how his love of music inspired him to create the Kaotica Eyeball as a portable and affordable solution for sound isolation. The totally custom and patented Eyeball took over 3½ years to develop and perfect with much work, sacrifice and financial expense involved. His genius piece of gear was embraced immediately by top music industry producers like Grammy Award®-winning multi-platinum producer David Hodges, DJ’s and artists like Dr. Dre, Lady Antebellum and Greyson Chance and now A-list voiceover talent are loving to use the Eyeball as well.

Konrad took great care in his design to make sure it preserves the integrity of the voice and be ideal for those who have space or the budget limitations. He reveals there are new products coming out in 2017 to address condenser mics like the Sennheiser 416 and and larger microphones like the Neumann U47.

He offers some tips for using the Eyeball properly like avoiding inexpensive XLR cables and mics as the frequency spectrum is not aligned properly, avoid multi-use microphones and highly recommends the Apogee 1 Mic as his preferred USB microphone. He also encourages talent to experiment with different areas in your room, avoid corners and make sure the microphone is facing the correct direction.

Get in on the very generous giveaway! Konrad is randomly selecting viewers who Watch, Like and Comment on this video a Kaotica Eyeball – one a week until Christmas, giveaway ends December 26, 2016.

Chuck and Stacey have happily joined forces with Konrad and endorsed this amazing product as their newest spokespersons. Make sure to go to KaoticaEyeball.com to watch a video testimonial Konrad and his team filmed with Stacey earlier this year.

Konrad shares the ultimate goal for his company and products which includes giving people the knowledge and freedom to succeed in their career and especially for voice talent just starting out an affordable option to help them be at the top of their game. To learn more and purchase a Kaotica Eyeball, go to KaoticaEyeball.com

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25 min
November 06, 2016 EP 220 Sylvia Villagran: Bilingual Voice Talent/Democratic National Convention Announcer
Chuck and Stacey continue talking with bilingual voice talent Sylvia
Villagran, known for her impressive work in promos, commercials,
trailers, live announce and radio imaging, in both the English and
Spanish markets. She comments on the Spanish dialect that is most in
demand with respect to national and regional work. Sylvia shares how her
desire to give back and share her experiences has lead to starting to
coach bilingual voice talent, inspired by her teaching a class for
crossover voice talent at the Don LaFontaine Voiceover Lab. Sylvia can
be reached about coaching by DM on Twitter @sylviavillagran

She
tells some of the most memorable and thrilling moments from her recent
honor of announcing the 2016 Democratic National Convention, a stand out
opportunity in her career to date. Read more about it on her website, http://sylvia-villagran.com/blog/

Sylvia
discusses her need to always continue improving her skills and
appreciates every job as it happens including some challenging work that
stretches her past her comfort zone for the Mun2 Network. She reveals
that she listens to everything and is constantly inspired by the work of
her voiceover colleagues. Sylvia reflects on what advice she would give
to herself if she were starting her career today, celebrates her Voice
Arts Awards nomination for Outstanding Body Of Work and along with Chuck
& Stacey, and expresses gratitude for the contribution of Joan
Baker and Rudy Gaskins. She defines what success means for her which
includes getting to do what she loves everyday.

Sylvia shares
her scariest moment as a live announcer from the 2016 Democratic
National Convention and find out some of Sylvia’s favorite foods. Follow
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36 min
October 30, 2016 EP 219 Sylvia Villagran: Bilingual Voice Talent/Democratic National Convention Announcer
At long last, Chuck and Stacey sit down with bilingual VO superstar and
native Angeleno, Sylvia Villagran, known for her versatile work in
promos, commercials, trailers, live announce and radio imaging. You hear
Sylvia all over network TV and radio in both the General and Spanish
markets on The Doctors, Jeopardy, Wheel of Fortune, the Mun2 Network,
and live announcing the Critics Choice Awards, the MTV VMA’s, the
Writers Guild Awards, the 2012 and 2016 Democratic National Conventions
and the Latin American Music Awards.

Sylvia shares the story of
when her radio colleague, Bob Jeffries, told her about voiceover and
helped her get started in the right direction with constructive advice
and critiques. Being business savvy, Sylvia always knew that “you don’t
get a second chance to make a first impression” and reminds people to
not make a demo until you are really ready.

After being fired
from radio, Sylvia tells about her unlikely on-camera job at Telemundo
Channel 52 while working in the Spanish voiceover market, and eventually
going back to radio. In 1999, she talks about how everything changed
for her with respect to being embraced as a bilingual talent. She
describes some major differences between the General and Spanish markets
and why working in voiceover allows her to be authentic, be a part of
the team and help solve people’s problems.

She offers amazing
advice to fellow bilingual voice talent who want to crossover from
taking lots of different classes to knowing what you could offer to the
General market and continually being open to feedback from people you
respect. She gives props to demos produced by Chuck and Stacey at Demos
That Rock and explains why making her first English demo was very
challenging.

She shares her beliefs about pursuing voiceover as a
career versus a hobby, why bilingual talent has to work twice as hard
and the importance of being ready when the opportunities present
themselves. She credits her parents for teaching her about business and
what she learned from working in show business at her father’s Mexican
movie distribution company.

Sylvia reminds people to master what
you can like being skilled, easy to direct and collaborative and to not
obsess over the things you can’t control. She gives her three keys to
having success, which are to be nice, have a good work ethic and be
talented. She speaks to her success in the world of live announce and
tells the story of her first live announce gig at the MTV VMA’s Latin
America in Miami in 2002.

She discusses the differences between
radio, which is more forgiving of mistakes than live announce where you
have to be perfect and ready for anything. She tells what she loves
about live announce and shares her rituals which include a heating pad
and physical preparation to help minimize the stress. Constantly
striving to be her best, Sylvia shares why she always listens to her
work so she can critique what she likes and how she can improve her
performance.

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October 23, 2016 EP 218 Kathe Mazur: Celebrity Actor & Audiobook Narrator
Chuck and Stacey continue the fun and insightful conversation with Kathe
Mazur, TNT Major Crimes’ DDA Andrea Hobbs, and also award-winning
audiobook narrator. She gives sage advice to people wanting to do
narration which means discovering if you love reading out loud, are able
to do accents, have a good ear for tone, character and reading for
clues. She speaks to the challenge of finding subtle nuances of
characters of different genders, ages and ethnicities in order to move
the story forward.

Kathe credits narrator friend Scott Brick for
sound advice he gave her early on that she get a great engineer and
editor to do her books. She explains how her guest star role of DDA
Andrea Hobbs on the TV series The Closer led to a series regular spot on
the spinoff show Major Crimes on TNT, currently in its 5th season. She
shares more about the joy of working with the show’s cast and crew and
that it’s a dream job and character for her to play.

She loves
everything she gets to do for work and believes that your dream career
doesn’t happen until you show up, are of service and make it happen.
Kathe answers what she would do differently if she was starting her
career over now and shares some feedback she got from VO coach, Nancy
Wolfson about her voice.

Kathe expresses some lessons she has
learned over the years from, “Trying to make yourself more, makes you
become less” to “Knowing you are something, know what you want to say
and believe what you are saying.” She tells what happens when people
don’t know how to pronounce her name and gives a beautiful definition of
what success means to her. The final question reveals what Kathe has
lost that she would love to find that deals with the wonder and optimism
for the future. Follow everyone on Twitter @KatheMazur @staceyjaswad
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October 16, 2016 EP 217 Kathe Mazur: Celebrity Actor & Audiobook Narrator
Join Chuck and Stacey and their phenomenal guest, audiobook narrator and
actress, Kathe Mazur, also loved for her brilliant work in movies like
American Sniper and TV shows like TNT’s Major Crimes and The Closer.
Kathe recalls some childhood experiences that sparked her desire to be
an actor that included her love of reading aloud.

She tells the
story of how she found her way from the stage to television to audiobook
narrating for Penguin Random House, formerly Books on Tape, by way of
doing volunteer work with narrator Karen White.

She explains
what she likes about working in both narration and on-camera worlds and
shares the questions she always asks herself about her performances.
Kathe talks about how narrating books is a great life lesson because it
requires you make to strong choices and to keep moving forward.

Kathe
offers some wisdom for narrators from owning your point of view to
making sure every sentence is interpreted in a way that is personal to
you. She recounts the experience she had narrating the Jonestown
survivor’s memoir, SEDUCTIVE POISON by Deborah Layton who wanted to be
with her in the studio during the recording. She tells what prompts her
to pass on a book in order to remain authentic, believing that “Saying
no as a strategy is different than saying no as a conviction."

With
regard to narration demos, she feels that you should lead with your
strengths and put things on it that you would most likely be hired to
read. Though she feels her wheelhouse is emotional, evocative literary
fiction, Kathe also love non-fiction as well. She gives another amazing
tip about this genre for narrators encouraging them to fall in love with
the conversation and play to the listener who is deeply interested in
the topic, don’t try to win over the one who is not.

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40 min
October 09, 2016 EP 216 Ivy Isenberg: Animation Casting Director - Call of Duty & Robot Chicken
Chuck and Stacey conclude their interview with Casting Director, Ivy
Isenberg of Ivy Isenberg Casting who has more than fifteen years of
experience working in animation, video games, film and television like
TripTank, Robot Chicken, Jeff and Some Aliens, Call of Duty, Curse of
Chucky and YouTube hit, The High Fructose Adventures of the Annoying
Orange on Comedy Central.

Ivy explains some of the factors for
hiring actors which comes down to who completes the Producer’s vision
for the project and she talks about the importance of scratch
recordings. She did the TV casting for The High Fructose Adventures of
The Annoying Orange on Comedy Central and answers how much she considers
social media influencers and YouTube personalities when casting
projects.

She gives advice to people with a passion to pursue a
voiceover career starting with a willingness to work hard, take classes,
learn the craft and different genres and work the business side of the
industry too.

She talks about casting real kids for roles versus
adults who play kids and speaks to some of the key elements in
performance capture work like having an expressive face in addition to
strong acting chops.

Ivy reveals what she would do if she was not a
casting director that includes going into local politics to help Los
Angeles and opening up a sticker store. She tells the most gratifying
parts of her job from helping people achieve their goals and dreams to
making a meaningful contribution. She reflects on her personal
philosophy of the only important things in life are love and being happy
with yourself.

As the Casting Director of the movie
CURSE OF CHUCKY, Chuck and Stacey show pictures of their recent Chucky
inspired Halloween costume then Ivy talks about the kinds of projects
she likes to work on, in the realm of counter culture and what she
calls, “Comic Con cool.” The interview ends with a conversation about
something Ivy is working on to change about herself and her desire to
only work with people who are respectful. Ivy’s closing words … “Be good
to each other and try hard.” Follow us all on Twitter @IvyIsenberg,
@staceyjaswad, @demosthatrock, @vobuzzweekly

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43 min
October 02, 2016 EP 215 Ivy Isenberg: Animation Casting Director - Call of Duty & Robot Chicken
Chuck and Stacey bring you the respected Casting Director of animation,
video games, film and television, Ivy Isenberg of Ivy Isenberg Casting.
She is a USC Film School graduate who went on to work at MGM Studios on
Stargate and Stargate Atlantis, the Species movies with Natasha
Henstridge and now on projects like Comedy Central’s Jeff and Some
Aliens, Trip Tank, Robot Chicken and Call of Duty.

Ivy discusses
her process for casting Performance Capture for video games and
animation and why she goes overboard with submissions to make sure there
are plenty of choices which includes giving deserving new talent an
opportunity. She answers what she needs to hear in voiceover auditions
to garner a callback and why she saves every audition for future
consideration. Ivy mentions the kinds of actors she won’t hire and
challenges actors to train and educate themselves, be dedicated and
proactive with their careers.

Striving to be the best at
everything she does, Ivy discusses the importance of why talent needs to
balance both art and commerce to be successful and that finding
talented actors who are reliable and deserving are actually in the
minority. She explains that she casts through agents and managers and
will consider people outside Los Angeles for projects if they are
actively working. While talent can’t do much to get on her bad side, she
has zero tolerance for actors who do boring auditions, have a bad work
ethic, lack commitment and are unprepared.

She attends
showcases and monologue festivals to scout new talent and listens to
demos when casting to find a person’s range, accents, tone, comedic
timing and cadence. Ivy offers insights on what “natural, not cartoony”
means in audition specs from interpreting it with engaging, emotional
connection based on what it’s for, the platform, network and time slot.
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