You're listening to Voice Acting Mastery, episode number 128.

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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.

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Welcome to the first part of my interview with voice actor, director, and teacher, Zach Hanks.

You may be familiar with his performances as Garnack in the animated series Star Wars the Clone Wars,

Morgan and Custis Pendleton in the video game Dishonored, and Lars Halford in the game Brutal Legend.

Not only is Zach a voice actor, but he's also worked as both

a voice director and casting director on multiple video game projects, including Company of Heroes,

Saints Row, and Warhammer 40,000. In addition to all his voiceover industry accomplishments,

Zach has also taught voice acting as a professor

at the Stephen F. Austin State University in Eastern Texas. He currently resides in Atlanta,

where he is continuing to pursue his own voiceover career in addition to founding the

VoiceOver Career Launchpad, a service that helps voiceover artists learn the skills they need to become

business-savvy professionals in the industry. I'm very excited to bring you Zach's story,

because his experiences are so wide and varied. In this first part of our interview, we cover

Zach's journey from when he started as a young high school student interested

in acting, all the way through the myriad twists and turns of his acting journey up until today.

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