Voice-Overs Provide Extra Work For Stage Actors
Are you a professional stage actor? Do you find yourself out of work more than 80% of the time? Do you spend countless hours killing yourself for your craft only to get paid less than $1000 a week? If you answered “Yes” to any of these questions, I have a suggestion: get a new job.
While this advice sounds harsh, it’s really not intended to be. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer has just written a great article talking about how many theater folk in the Seattle area are finding a lot of side income as voice-actors in video games. It makes sense, after all, since the hours are flexible, your appearance/body type has no effect on whatever role you play, and the pay is apparently a helluvalot better.
Many stage actors make ends meet with voiceover work. Radio and TV commercials and training films for businesses are sources of income. And, Seattle being Seattle, providing voices for video games is a welcome sideline in the voiceover field. A spinoff of Seattle’s high-tech economic culture is the production of video games—with their soft sighs, urgent whispers, angry exclamations and agonized screams.
I say the staff here at GG should be the cast for the next Marvel super-hero game.
Video-game voiceovers are a lucrative sideline for local theater veterans
Boy of Tomorrow
Posted to on 22 October 2006
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