EP 72 Lori Alan: Voice of Pearl the Whale

Amazing demonstrations and tips on bringing characters to life.

Lori Alan offers some valuable marketing tips to develop and nurture business relationships and we learn more about Lori’s approach to voice acting coaching and what motivated her to start working with students, one-on-one and in a group setting. Viewers get an amazing demonstration of how Lori brings a character to life and she takes us through several ways to create characters using real life examples.

She reflects on the actions or patterns of behavior that have helped to keep her going in her career and talks about doing Pixar movies like Monsters University, Wall-E and Toy Story 3, with voice acting veterans Jess Harnell, Laraine Newman, Mona Marshall and Danny Mann. Lori tells the story about meeting Seth MacFarlane and landing the role of Diane the Anchorwoman on Family Guy. She encourages the fans of the show to resurrect Diane from her watery “death”. Come on guys, it worked for Futurama!

We find out some amazing personal and professional advice Lori has gotten along the way that helps her succeed and stay balanced. The episode closes with a poignant story about a teacher whose encouragement made a profound difference in the course of her life and Lori expresses how she feels about Chuck and Stacey and VO Buzz Weekly.

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