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Portia Scott is a pioneer in the Voiceover arena in Hollywood!  She has over 25 years of experience as a Voiceover agent is the only African American woman leading one of the top divisions as the Director of Voiceover at Coast-to-Coast Talent Group in Los Angeles.  Along with her talented team, she represents both adult and youth talent in all areas of voiceover. Her client roster is among the top talent in the industry having worked on animated Academy Award® & Golden Globe® awarded films such as Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio and Toy Story 4. Further recent notable animation feature credits include Space Jam: A New Legacy, Raya and the Last Dragon, Over the Moon, Wish Dragon, Into The Spider Verse, Blue’s Big City Adventure, AINBO: Spirit of the Amazon, The Mitchells vs. The Machines, Abominable, Inside Out, UP and Frozen. 

Portia has additionally placed clients in copious TV animation roles, video game and national commercial campaigns. Leveraging her strong relationships with top animation studios, Portia has secured client roles on animated television series on Disney, Nickelodeon, Netflix, Cartoon Network, Marvel, HBO, Paramount+, Pixar TV, LucasFilm/TV and DreamWorks Animation, to just name a few. Ms. Scott’s clients have worked for some of the industry’s top video game companies including EA Sports, Nintendo, Bio Ware, Blizzard, Electronic Arts, Ubisoft, Sony Interactive, Activision, Epic Games, Take Two Interactive, Microsoft, Rockstar Games, Riot Games, Xbox Game Studio, Cygames, Warner Bros., BrightSkills, Lucas Arts, Naughty Dog and Blindlight. Booked commercial spots include a plethora of brands such as Nike, the 11-Year Campaign for Tobacco Free, Walmart, BMW, JPMorgan Chase & Co, Apple, Gordon’s Fish Sticks, Carvana, Chewy, Carters, Hyundai, Spotify, AT&T, Norton Lifelock, LATAM, Cantu, Zales, Google, Asana, Facebook Portal, Mercedes, KFC, Hotels.com, Geico and Oatley.

In addition, on the ADR/Dubbing side, Portia’s clients have worked in the genre with Amazon, Netflix, Sony, Warner Bros., Universal, Paramount, Disney, Apple TV, HBO, Showtime, Hulu and 2kGames.  
Ms. Scott has created and co-authored, alongside Melique Berger, a curriculum of technique and performance courses for university, baccalaureate and master’s degree programs and performance conservatories that are inclusive of voiceover as part of the discipline of study. Through their company “Indigo Voices,” the pair created a curriculum entitled “Method on the Mic/Actors Tool Kit”/ “Art of the Pivot©.”

Portia Scott has a passion for the entertainment industry. A native of Los Angeles, she earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in Theatre from California State University, Long Beach. She then set her goals higher and moved to New York City, where she garnered a Master of Arts in Theatre from New York University’s famed Circle in the Square Theatre School. Ms. Scott gained notoriety in the theatre community of Manhattan performing throughout the Tri-State area. Upon returning to Los Angeles, she produced, co-wrote, and starred in her own one-woman show, “The Secret Diary of Sandra Woodward.” This “Secret” wasn’t a secret for long and burgeoned into a one- woman show-biz extravaganza. After receiving public acclaim and success with the show, work in television and film continued to flourish. Ms. Scott continued her quest for further knowledge of the industry by working for MCA/Universal. On the studio side, Ms. Scott has worked in such areas as feature marketing for Universal Pictures and in sitcom development for Universal Television.

Roy is an author, speaker, and coach. He ensures blind people enjoy watching videos. He produces, consults, hires, and advises on audio description for video content. Through consulting companies, creators, and voice actors to elevate storytelling for all audiences, he supports crafting immersive experiences beyond meeting standards, allowing for greater engagement, and emotional impact.

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Arianna Ratner is a voice actor, director, coach, and demo producer. With almost a decade of conservatory theater training under her belt and a BFA, she incorporates traditional theater techniques into her work and teaching. She is a lifelong voice actor and has voiced countless characters in the Elder Scrolls Online game, can be heard in Spider Man 2, Diablo 4, Fallout 76, Cookie Run Kingdom, Saint's Row, Lost Ark, The World of Warcraft Legion and Battle for Azeroth, The Sims 4, State of Decay 2, Final Fantasy, Baby Shark Brooklyn, and more. She is the only woman ever to have voiced Cinemax promos, and has voiced Trailers for Inside Out 2, Disney's Wish, Prime Video's Catherine Called Birdy, and Captain Marvel. She's done promo work for The Food Network, Comedy Central, Max, CNN, A&E, and Animal Planet, and affiliate work for ABC/KSBW-TV and Newsnation. Fun fact: her voice is immortalized on the Jumpin’ Jellyfish and Avatar Flight of Passage rides at California Adventures and Disney World.

DDO’s well established tri-city VoiceOver department specializes in commercials, promos, trailers, animation, narration, video games, ADR/looping, political, industrial and audiobooks. DDO prides themselves in representing a diverse range of talent, and they’re as committed to procuring our current roster as they are to expanding a new talent base with fresh voices to tackle the industry. Voiceover Agent Allie Silber comes with almost a decade of experience. She started out her career in the Children’s and Young Adults Division for Voiceover, Animation, On-Camera Commercial and Print as an assistant at Abrams Artists Agency and worked her way up to Agent. Since 2019, Allie has joined DDO to specialize in her true passion - Voiceovers. She works with kids & adults of all ages. Some of Allie’s recent commercial bookers can be heard as the AVO for National Network Spots (Dunkin’ Donuts, Zyrtec, Hotels.com, KFC, Liberty Mutual, Chips Ahoy, Greenies, Kohl’s, Ozempic, Accenture, Milk-Bone and more) and her animation bookers can be heard in a variety of animated feature films and TV series (The Adventures of Buckwild, Alma’s Way, Mickey Mouse Funhouse, Firebuds, Dew Drop Diaries, Abominable, Legend of Vox Machina and more). Allie continues to scout, develop and represent talent from across the country. She most recently was the recipient of the 2024 Heller Award for Northeast Voiceover Agent of the Year.

Marc Graue has been a major force in the Los Angeles voiceover market for over 45 years. As a performer Marc can be heard daily on Disney's Pirates Of The Caribbean ride and countless national Commercials including Toyota & Jiffy Lube, Video Games ( Warcraft, Ratchet & Clank, Starcraft Hotel Mario, Skylanders & many more), Cartoons ( Avatar The Last Airbendar, Ever After High, Motown Magic) and as the "in-show" Narrator for Nat Geo's Alaska State Troopers for 11 seasons. Marc was also honored with the inaugural 2021 SOVAS LIFETIME ACHIEVMENT AWARD, the ONE VOICE AWARDS for 2021 Best Male Voiceover Arist and numerous other accolades over the years! His Studios in Burbank have become a landmark with Marc
casting and directing Commercials, Games, Cartoons, ADR and Coaching and Producing demos for Hollywood's elite.
www.marc-graue.com

While born and raised in Texas, Libby Clearfield bounced around a lot, acting and directing for theatre in New York where she earned her BFA in Drama from NYU; then moving to Israel to teach English and earn her MA in Education from Tel Aviv University; then pursuing on-camera acting in Los Angeles, before discovering voiceover in 2013. Two years into her VO acting career, by happenstance she found herself at Coupe Studios in Boulder, Colorado as their casting director, where she then spent the next 9 years working closely with clients to understand their vision and translate it into receiving compelling performances from the voice actors she showcased for them to hire. She has built a formidable roster of talents and developed great relationships with talent agents and agencies around the globe, allowing her to launch her own company, Voiceover Activate, in May 2024.

Voiceover Activate is a trifecta of Libby’s skills and passions for coaching, casting, and acting. With her experience in these three areas of the voiceover industry, she offers a unique perspective to her coaching students, as she speaks the language of the actor while still understanding and appreciating the intricacies of production, primarily in the commercial and narration world.

Libby loves working with seasoned VO professionals as much as emerging new talents, as there is always something new and exciting to learn and teach from every experience, and she appreciates every opportunity she gets to impart any of the pearls of wisdom she’s gained throughout the years!

Kirsty Gillmore - Director & Casting Director

Kirsty Gillmore (she/her) is a Voice & Performance Director, Casting Director and Dialogue Producer who has directed and cast over 50 game titles as well as animation and audio drama projects, working with studios and actors all over the world. Recent game credits include The First Descendant, Valorant, Baldur’s Gate 3, Metaphor: ReFantazio and Call of Duty and animation includes Shasha & Milo and the upcoming Netflix series Splinter Cell: Deathwatch. Kirsty has directed and taught at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and Guildhall School of Music and Drama and has been a speaker and panellist for GDC, GameSoundCon and BAFTA. Kirsty is also a sound designer with over 20 years experience for live and audio projects. In 2021 she was selected for the prestigious BAFTA Breakthrough programme as a Voice Director for Games.

Richard Redfield is an award-winning creative director/producer of hundreds of trailers and TV spots for movies over the years in all genres, from Ocean’s Eleven and Inception to Mad Max: Fury Road, Wonder Woman and many others.  He is also a highly regarded trailer/promo VO coach.

Jeremy Hall is a voice director/actor/coach who's acting credits include Marvel's Spider-Man, Spider-Man Miles Morales, Metal Gear Survive, Ratchet and Clank, Horizon Forbidden West and Final Fantasy VII Rebirth. As voice director for video games for over 15 years, his directing credits include Ratchet and Clank PS4, Sunset Overdrive, Marvel’s Spider-Man, Fortnite, Jurassic Park Evolution, Marvel's Avengers, Hyrule Warriors Age of Calamity, Godfall, Ghost of Tsushima, Ghostwire: Tokyo, Valorant, League of Legends, Minecraft Legends and most recently Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance. As a teacher, Jeremy has held workshops throughout Los Angeles, been a presenter at VO Atlanta, GameSoundCon, Get Your Game On as well as taught Voice Over for MFA and BFA students at the New York Film Academy.

TALENT AGENT: PEOPLE STORE
Jennifer Hummel is the head of Character VO and Emerging Talent at People Store Talent Agency in Atlanta, GA. She has an active roster of voice over artists who frequently book popular animation, video game, and podcast productions. Her specialty as a talent agent is cultivating new actors in the business to where they are consistently working. In addition to being an agent, Jennifer is passionate about educating actors about the voice over as well as the film and television industry in order to make it feel more accessible when starting out.

Since, 1990 Mary Lynn Wissner, Founder and Casting Director of the award winning, Voices Voicecasting, has cast thousands and thousands of voice talent in thousands of voiceover productions. From the Clio winning CHEVRON TALKING CARS to the 13 part HISTORY, THE COLOR OF WAR to CHRYSLER, 7-Up, DEL TACO, JOLLY TIME, SHERWIN WILLIAMS, NICKELODEON, SONY, KIA, MATTEL, IAMS, MERCEDES, CHIQUITA, FIAT, TACO BELL, COCA-COLA, TOYOTA, LEGOS, WALGREENS, KLEENEX, US ARMY, SONY, 7-11, TECATE, HONDA, HASBRO, CLOROX, JEEP, MATTEL, LEAP PAD (just to name a few), as well as, several feature films, animation series and video games, audio books and narrations. Casting voices for E-Learning, Promos and IVR...whatever voice request is needed, Mary Lynn has found the voice for it!
In addition to her successful casting career, Mary Lynn has continued to direct workshops, coach, consult and direct talent all across the world.
In 2007, Mary Lynn created The VO Pros, where talent can Meet the Pros and leaders in the industry with weekly workshops and clinics.
In 2018,  Mary Lynn and a few of her VO colleagues introduced, THE VO ROADSHOW; bringing the most accredited and respected coaches and directors to your town!
As the creator of THE VOICE OVER SELF DIRECTION APP, Mary Lynn simplified the self-direction process for talent to use on their iPhone, iPad, and Android devices.
Talent, producers, ad execs and creatives all know that when you work with
Mary Lynn, you work with someone who loves everything about VO and brings that passion and expertise to any production, studio or workshop.