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VO Agent Jeffrey Umberger- What Books Voiceover Work?

About Voice Over, Blog, Demos, Interviews & Insight

Voiceover Agent Jeffrey UmbergerHe’s one of the Southeast premiere voiceover agents, representing over 400 talents from celebrity voices to voiceover bloggers like myself. His agency fields auditions for jobs from Publix, to Walking Dead to Network promos and he does it without breaking a sweat. In fact Jeffrey Umberger runs his Atlanta based Umberger Agency almost entirely by himself, and still has time to appear locally and nationally on panels to dish out expert advice on the voiceover industry.

To say Jeffrey Umberger has an ear for voiceover would be an understatement. He is one of the most known, respected and talented agents around. And he’s done this all without a New York or L.A. office which is pretty remarkable. Jeffrey has a great ear which he developed while at another agency directing talent.
Jeffrey Umber With Dane ReidI interviewed Jeffrey Umberger at his home last year in Atlanta. We sat down and he gave me the inside scoop on how to land an agent, what components of a demo catch agents and clients attention and what helps clients book actual jobs.
Jeffrey and his expert advice are everywhere. Earlier this year he was a panelist at VO Atlanta 2014. He regularly appears as a panelist around Atlanta, does some coaching and teaches VO business success classes. Additionally he is a featured agent at the “That’s Voiceover” Career Expo in New York and will be appearing at Randy Thomas’s Voiceover Mastery Event in Ft. Myers Fl.
To top it off Jeffrey is a really nice and humble guy. Whether you are one of his top booking talent or someone who has no idea how to get started in voiceover, he relates everyone on the same level. That in itself is a talent and is the reason he has been so successful in finding the industry’s best voiceover talent.
The Umberger Agency- Representing voice actors in the US, Great Britain, and Canada, including Jasmine Guy, Tony Dow of Leave It To Beaver, Grammy winner Lee Greenwood, Dustin Diamond of Saved By The Bell, Karen Grier of 11 Alive News and more.  Owner Jeffrey Umberger was a Casting Producer on 2 seasons of DIY Network’s hit show ‘MEGA DENS’. He once did some scouting for the Television series ‘COLLECTOR INSPECTOR’ on HGTV, and ‘BREATHING ROOM’ on Fine Living Network. He later began working in commercial casting with Casting Director Kris Redding. It was after this that Jeffrey began his career as a talent agent. Jeffrey now owns Umberger Agency, with one of the most respected Voice-Over talent rosters in the country. As a Voice-Over Agent, Jeffrey has placed talent with Tyler Perry’s ‘HOUSE OF PAYNE’, ‘LOVE THY NEIGHBOR’, ‘THE HAVES AND HAVE NOTS’, ‘SINGLE LADIES’ on VH1, HGTV, Cartoon Network, Turner Classic Movies, DIY Network, The Food Network, Fine Living Network, The Cooking Channel, and Georgia Public Broadcasting, among others.

Jeffrey Will Be At The VO Mastery Event Presented By Randy Thomas. You Can Catch Him There

Jeffrey Umberger At The VO Mastery Event

Check Out Jeff rey At “Thats Voiceover” In NYC Also

Jeffrey Umberger At Thats Voiceover

The Umberger Agency Represent Dane Reid As A Voiceover Talent

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Filed Under: About Voice Over, Blog, Demos, Interviews & Insight Tagged With: Atlanta Voice Over, Booking Voiceover Work, Jeffrey Umberger, Voice Actor, Voice Over Professional, Voice Talent, Walking Dead

Mara Junot – How A Radio Background Can Help You In Voiceover

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To understand why you should take advice from Mara Junot you only need to do a quick Google search of her name to know that hers is a voiceover career to be envied. Her website MaraJunot.com gives but a snippet of the projects of one of the most diverse talents in our field. But humbly Mara has been the voice of so many things that we hear on a daily basis.

Check out some of her credits.

1. Voice of Christa and Anna Corea in The Walking Dead video game by Telltale Games, winner of over 90 Game of the Year Awards worldwide.

2. Primary internal voice of AT&T, the largest telephony company in the United States. Voice of Nationwide Directory Assistance, U-Verse applications, AT&T retail outlets and extended text-to-speech (TTS) applications.

3. North American voice for Sygic GPS Navigation, named as the most downloaded offline navigation app in the world.

4. Branding voice of the Tampa Bay Rays baseball team.

5. Voice of Sierra Club, the largest and most influential grassroots environmental organization in the United States.

6. Voice of Anki Drive, the first artificial intelligence-driven video game.

7. Voice of Commander Tiaru Jarok, T’Vrell, Capt. Tren Renalla, and various others for Star Trek Online by Cryptic Studios.

8. Voice of Merrisara Winterwhite, Marigold Tarmikos and others in NeverWinter: Fury of the Feywild

9. The White Warrior, Lady Wei , and Female Player in Kung-Fu Live (by Virtual Air Guitar Company).

10. Explainer videos for Microsoft Surface.

11. Voice of Oreck for 4 years.

12. National Jenny Craig commercial.

13. National Public Storage commercials.

Mara Junot

Still Mara is pretty humble, down to earth and lots of fun. I’ve studied Mara’s career for a few years now and I’ve observed a few things that make her so dynamic in voiceover. Mara Junot got to where she is with a very precise formula. And while during the course of our interview, she never divulged all of her secrets, she did give me a little taste of her formula and how she  got to the “Carnegie Hall” of voiceover. (Hint)
1) Mara started with a background in radio. In voiceover, this is traditionally thought to be the great NO NO as people in radio tend to go against the VO trend of being natural and sounding announcery. Often radio people struggle to break free from the announcer voice that follows them even in regular conversation. But Mara gives good reason in the interview why this doesn’t have to be true and how she used her background in radio to help her.
2)Mara is like an athlete in voiceover.  (Watch to learn why)
3) Something she didn’t mention in the interview was the fact that Mara stays on top of trends and goes where the work is. She networks in high level places which helps her climb even higher.

Filed Under: About Voice Over Tagged With: Animation Voiceover, Dave Fennoy, Gerald Griffith, Mara Junot, Top Rated African American Voice Talent, Voice Over Professional, Voice Talent, voiceover, Walking Dead

Dave Fennoy From The Walking Dead (The Hulu Guy)

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In a world of voice over for animation, Dave Fennoy is a King. I caught up with Dave while he was in town for the DragonConn convention where he was represented as one of the voices of the video game “The Walking Dead”.

You may know Dave Fennoy as the voice of Hulu. But over his 20 plus year career as a voice actor Dave has been the voice for Promos and commercials for Fox, the WB, Starz, TV One, Disney Channel, McDonalds, Corona, Lexus, AT&T, Chrysler, Starcraft 2, Thats So Raven, Spiderman and many, many more brands. But although this A list VO talent keeps a busy schedule voicing projects and traveling internationally with Comicconn conventions, I found him to be down to earth and easily accessible.

I found out that Dave would be in Atlanta by following him on Facebook. I remembered that a friend and fellow talent Kozmo Miller was a personal friend of Daves and had received coaching and mentoring from him early in Kozmos career. So I called Kozmo who reached out to Dave who was connecting flights to Atlanta in Phoenix. Dave was receptive to the idea and not only granted me the interview, but also allowed me access to his live panel discussion at DragonConn.

In the two days I spent with Dave Fennoy and I found him to be outgoing, funny and super knowledgable, all of which add value to his voicing abilities. It was easy to understand how he had booked with so many high end companies. We talked about a wide range of things, from his career, to how the average person could transition from their careers into being a voice talent. He provided valuable information on animation voice over, auditioning and the work that’s involved after booking a job.

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Filed Under: About Voice Over, Blog, Interviews & Insight Tagged With: Animation Voiceover, Dave Fennoy, Dragonconn, Golden Voice, Top Rated African American Voice Talent, Voice Actor, Voice Over, Voice Over Career, Voice Over Professional, Voice Talent, Walking Dead

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