Ethan is a versatile voice actor with hundreds of characters in his arsenal. Living in various parts of the world influenced him in creating those characters and made him the talented voice actor that he is today\u2026 and having a degree and solid experience in acting didn’t hurt either.<\/p>\n
Let\u2019s learn more about our featured voiceover artist Ethan\u2026 you\u2019ll love the clip he shared with us today.<\/p>\n
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What got you started on a career in the voiceover industry?<\/strong><\/p>\n I grew up listening to my father do silly voices, imitating Nat King Cole and Humphrey Bogart, and I’d imitate him imitating them, so I suppose I’ve been doing silly voices my whole life. Then I studied acting at Northwestern University, and received an MFA from UC Irvine, but it wasn’t ’til a few years ago that I gave up theatrical and on-camera acting to devote myself full-time to VO. And why did I do that? In short, I found that VO pays better, there’s much less driving to auditions, and I don’t have to memorize any lines!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n How has your background in theatre and on cam acting helped you hone your craft as a voice actor? Is this something that you can recommend aspiring VO artists to do?<\/strong><\/p>\n Working in theater definitely<\/strong> helped. In fact, I think it’s how I became “instantly” successful when I started in VO. (Given that I’d been acting for 15 years and my last role was Hamlet in “Hamlet,” it would be inaccurate to say I was a beginner.) One thing my VO mentor has always said is that when you’re working with a new VO agent or client, you have to be able to go “80 miles per hour on the freeway.” The idea here is that in the VO world things move fast and if one can’t keep up one gets passed up, or, in other words, run over. I think that the 15 years of training I received, first in theater, then in VO, helped me to go 60 on the freeway… But I had (and still have) some distance to go, and some things to learn about the craft of VO, before being able to go 80 on the freeway. I suppose this is what experience brings.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Being a bilingual VO talent is definitely an advantage. With your experience, what’s the best way to market yourself as a bilingual artist?<\/strong><\/p>\n Honestly? I found a huge list of VO producers and voice sites and emailed them all individually with my English and Spanish reels, my training, and the fact that I’d booked 500 gigs in the past two years (which is true). People responded!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Do you have a voiceover actor you look up to? Why?<\/strong><\/p>\n Mel Blanc. The man could do anything!<\/p>\nMarketing yourself as a bilingual voice actor<\/h2>\n