You're listening to Voice Acting Mastery, episode number 172.

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In each episode of this podcast, you'll discover valuable tips, tricks, and insider information to help 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.crispinfreeman.com.

Welcome to the first part of my interview with voice actress and voice director, Lisa Ortiz.

It's a real honor to have Lisa on the podcast, since she played the lead character, Lena Inverse,

in the first anime series I ever worked on as a voice actor, The Slayers.

You may also know Lisa as the voice of Deedlet in the anime series record of Lotus War,

Amy Rose in the Sonic X animated series, and numerous characters in both the Pokemon and

Yu-Gi-o anime franchises. Lisa has also voice-directed many animated series in games, including

over 150 episodes of Pokemon.

Lisa and I both got our start as voice actors in the late 1990s in New York City.

But it wasn't long before our paths ended up diverging.

In November of 2001, I moved to Los Angeles, while Lisa stayed in New York in order to pursue voiceover opportunities there.

For the next 18 years, we both worked as voice actors on opposite coasts of the country,

until late 2019, when Lisa decided to make the move to Los Angeles herself.

I've been eager to chat with her about what the voiceover industry has been like in New York while I was gone,

and what insights she can share for those of my listeners who may live closer to the Big Apple than Southern California.

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