Voice Jobs

The Perils of Lifetime Achievement

August 21, 2025 by Rowell Gormon

This post isn’t about Coach Jim Valvano of NC State University…well, not entirely. I’m not a sports expert, or even a fan. But if you lived in the state anytime in the 80s, you knew the name. Our paths only crossed when he would come into the radio station to record some of his basketball […]

“Oh, Bother.”

June 6, 2024 by Rowell Gormon

It’s such a common feeling, as I’ve come to find out: not wanting to”bother” somebody. A.A. Milne’s Winnie the Pooh would express this annoyance with a simple, “Oh, bother!” That silly old Pooh (so wonderfully voiced in Disney cartoons by Sterling Holloway, and later by Jim Cummings) perfectly captures that dreaded reaction I wanted to […]

A.I. Voiceovers May Yet Start Eating Their Own

May 29, 2024 by Rowell Gormon

The Voiceover community is still abuzz over the emergence of so-called “Artificial Intelligence” and the impact it will have on VO jobs. In my experience (so far at least) voice actors who don’t mind doing more work for less money will be the hardest hit. I’m not out to bash “low-ballers” and “newbies” here. Rather, […]

Everyone Should Have an “Uncle Willie” (part two)

March 28, 2019 by Rowell Gormon

click here for part one One of the biggest reasons I hit it off so well in the studio with producers and directors is my Imagination. I’ve even had writers create something with one of my voice characters in mind. I sometimes wonder why that sense of imagination isn’t commonplace. And then I wonder where […]

Everybody Should Have an “Uncle Willie” (part one)

March 19, 2019 by Rowell Gormon

The Man of Multiple Names Could Hear My Multiple Voices To his wife Joyce, his co-workers and other friends he was “Bill”. His mom, my grandma, always referred to him as William Thomas (I always wondered who that “William Thomas” guy she kept talking about was). But to me and my younger brother Lee (pictured […]

Hitting the Voiceover Trail (you can’t get there the way I did)

March 14, 2019 by Rowell Gormon

It’s an honest question. I get it a lot. “How do I get into voiceovers?” Usually, the person wants a Secret Formula…wants to know how I did it…wants to know how to follow the same path I did. The thing of it is: you can’t follow that path. It simply doesn’t exist anymore. Broken Roads […]

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