Allison Smith

Imagine retrieving your mail from your letterbox and noticing that all envelopes have been ripped open, and sloppily re-sealed with a sticker reading: “This mail has been opened and inspected for quality control and training purposes.” Imagine, even more bizarrely, not even caring about that and even accepting this as a normal function of doing business with the post office, or with the company that sent you the letter in the first place.

Canadian voice-over talents like me have an interesting challenge that presents itself when your focus is on building an American clientele.

She’s competition in a sound studio’s talent list, and for every job I land, Jane gets hired for about three… but I always reminded myself that Jane’s paychecks end up in my bank account.

My clients with whom I’ve worked for awhile that I am game to voice pretty much anything… However, there are limits. I have backed off a few projects…