Barb Lyon
Voice Artist

After taking Labor Day weekend off it was a little hard to get back in the groove. Tuesday morning came, I sat in my booth and felt thoroughly unmotivated. So I did what I sometimes do before I hit record: I went surfing around, listening to other people's demos looking for a little inspiration. I pulled up Talent A first. Big name. Touted as a high-booking pro. An expert people turn to. I listened through a few clips and thought, huh. I wasn't feeling it. Not bad, just...

We are always being told to just be ourselves in auditions. The problem with that is that there are these pesky audition specs to meet! And these are usually words we’d never say. In fact we spend all day twisting ourselves into pretzels…excited over here, confident over there, oh and now why not let me hear you as an angry leprechaun.

Lili Wexu. You might recognize her name from Grey’s Anatomy, American Crime Story, Assassin’s Creed, or Aliens Vs. Predator: Requiem. Imagine my surprise when I found her Get Clever About VO course almost a year ago. I was over the moon! See, I’m a bit of a process person. Tell me the process, I’ll execute, and voila! So when I found out there was a step by step process to breaking down scripts, I was like, YEAH! Now we’re talking!