You're listening to Voice Acting Mastery, episode number five.

Welcome to the Voice Acting Mastery podcast with Crispin Freeman.

Voiceactingmastery.com is your place to learn both the skills and the mindset you need to become a professional voice actor, even if you're just getting started.

In each episode of this podcast, you'll discover valuable tips, tricks and insider information to help you portray characters in animation, video games and beyond.

And now here's your host, voice actor Crispin Freeman.

Hi there, my name is Crispin Freeman, and I'll be your guide through the world of voice acting.

If you'd like to know more about me, feel free to check out my personal website at www.com.

This episode is part two of the story of how I broke into voice acting.

If you haven't already, I highly recommend you listen to the episode

just prior to this one, so you can have a sense of context. In this episode, I'm going to talk

about my first experience in the recording studio, balancing my theater and voice acting career, and

my eventual decision to leave New York and move to Los Angeles to pursue voice acting full

time. So, let's get

started. And now, the feature segment. As I explained in the last episode, the first voice

acting job I had was playing the role of Prince Hallis in a Japanese animated series called The Slayers.

Now, Prince Hallis was a one-shot character. What that

means is that he was featured in one episode of the first season of Slayers, but he never appeared

again in the show. This is often how people get their break, not only in voice acting, but in any

kind of acting situation. You audition for a studio, they like your audition, but they don't know how reliable

you are as an actor yet. So you're given a small role to show the director and producers that you

can deliver a good performance. If you demonstrate that you can perform well, take direction,

are punctual, professional, and pleasant to work with, then the studio is more inclined to hire

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