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Scott Brick Narrating ‘John Carter’-Based Audiobook

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Multiple award-winning audiobook narrator Scott Brick shared with Voice Actors in the News that he is currently recording narration for an audiobook production of “some fabulous, old-school pulp science fiction” — Edgar Rice Burroughs’ A Princess of Mars, the novel which served as the basis for Disney’s big budget live-action/CGI hybrid epic John Carter (coming [...]

Complete List of Dragon*Con Voice Actor Events

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I’ve been asked by several individuals attending Dragon*Con if I would list all of the voice actor panels I’m involved with along with other related panels of note. As you will see below, there are so many related events that this was a rather daunting task. I hope my efforts will be useful as a [...]

Fans Q&A with Jess Harnell (audio)

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Jess Harnell fans were asked to submit questions for Jess via the Jess Harnell Fans Facebook Group and MySpace fan page. [Fan questions were selected by Voice Actors in the News staff contributor, Ashley Trayder, who is also the administrator of Jess' fan pages on Facebook and MySpace.] Instead of typing his replies, Jess took [...]

Firesign Theatre's David Ossman Interviewed

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The second edition of the “Official Unofficial Firesign Theatre Magazine,” It’s Just This Little Chromium Switch Here, includes interviews with Firesign Theatre performer David Ossman, Mystery Science Theatre 3000 creator Joel Hodgson, and radio legend Shadoe Stevens. A download of the magazine is available for $5 through chromiumswitch.org. Issue #1, featuring an exclusive interview with [...]

Adult Swim Voice Actor Performs in Atlanta Live Show

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Voice actor Scott Hilley (Adult Swim’s Squidbillies, Aqua Teen Hunger Force) is starring in and directing “The Golden Age Radio Show” at Expressions Theatre and Film in Atlanta, GA on Saturday, May 29th at 7:30 PM. This family-friendly event — a live radio theatre-style production — will feature performances from episodes of two classic “old [...]

Jonathan Winters Rumored to Voice Papa Smurf

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UGO.com is reporting that Jonathan Winters will voice Papa Smurf in The Smurfs computer-animated feature expected to release in theaters on July 29, 2011. IMDb.com and Wikipedia.org both state that John Lithgow and Julia Sweeney are rumored to be involved with the film as well, and IMDb adds that Wallace Shawn is rumored to voice [...]

Hearing Voices: Voice Actors Radio Show

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This article was originally published February 2, 2010. Please scroll down for the latest updates. I’d like to give a shout-out to Mark Allen Jr. — a fellow voice actor fan (and voice talent as well) — for his new “Hearing Voices” voice actors radio show at Cal State University in Fullerton, CA. Allen’s first [...]

Event: Voice Acting Community Helps Haiti Victims

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For immediate release: Voice Acting Community Helps Haiti Victims Two of the country’s leading Voice Acting educators, Voice Coaches and Edge Studio, are teaming up to offer some assistance after the unimaginable events in Haiti. Schenectady, NY, February 05, 2010 –(PR.com)– The Voice Acting community will come together for a large-scale group tele-conference focusing on [...]

RIP, Shirley Bell Cole

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The New York Times is reporting that Shirley Bell Cole died on January 12th, 2010. She was 89. Cole voiced the title character for the popular radio show “Little Orphan Annie” (an adaptation of the comic strip by Harold Gray). She got the part when she was only 10 years old, and the NY Times [...]

CBS Stingy with 'Jack Benny Program' Masters

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The character Jack Benny portrayed on his classic TV program and long-running radio show was a lovable miser — an infamous cheapskate whose extreme frugality was a running gag on the series. Who would ever have imagined that a half-century later CBS would reflect Benny’s TV persona by refusing to release masters of his classic [...]