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Anime Weekend Atlanta - Day Two - Voice Actors
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Now this was a big group of actors: eleven were in one room at Anime
Weekend Atlanta, topping the number that appeared earlier in the year at
Project: A-Kon. They were Brett Weaver, George Lowe, Corrine Orr, Peter
Fernandez, Amy Howard, Michael Brady, Jessica Calvello, Lisa Ortiz, Michael
Granberry, Tiffany Grant and Doug Smith. |
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| One of the fans in the audience wanted to know how to get started as
an actor. The answer: you have to know someone who knows someone. Ortiz
(right) had a long answer that started, "My brother's car broke down and
I got to meet somebody. Some people say get an agent, but that doesn't
work for me...I don't know how to get work." After several minutes, Calvello
replied, "Everything Lisa said goes for me." Others noted that it's possible
to get an anime voice role through a newspaper ad, but you have to be in
the right town where the auditions are taking place. Usually that means
living in the right town. |
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We've noted how Orr (right) has been everything in dubs from a spokesbear
for a fabric softener to children and girls in movies and cartoon. Lowe
(left) gets a lot of attention as the Space Ghost voice in the Coast to
Coast show on the Cartoon Network, but he's best known in Atlanta as the
voice of the MARTA commuter train system. By the way, Lowe really liked
that special episode of the Coast to Coast series where the producers showed
a writing session. |
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| Howard (left) went years between her Nova role in Star Blazers and
her next role in an episode of Irresponsible Captain Tylor, while Brady
has worked in radio drama between anime dubs. Brady loves the work, but
he's realistic about his career: "Anime work is no way to make a living.
there's not enough money to fly original cast members across the country
for dubbing," he said. |
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