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EXCLUSIVE: Disney has launched a nationwide hunt for emerging sound actors, focused connected nan creation of animation.
Disney Branded Television Discovers Voice Talent Search is designed to supply hands-on acquisition successful sound performance, characteristic improvement and collaborative storytelling. Ten sound actors will beryllium selected to participate successful a free, weeklong shop astatine Disney Television Animation studios successful Glendale, California, wherever participants will person nan opportunity to study from and activity alongside knowledgeable casting and imaginative executives. At nan extremity of nan week, nan sound actors will participate successful nan creation of an original, 11-minute animated short that will debut connected Disney platforms.
Submissions are unfastened March 31 done April 14 to U.S. residents eligible to work, aged 18 and older, pinch beardown comedy, euphony and improv skills via the submission nexus here.
“Extraordinary performers are already retired location — it’s our work to observe them,” said Brenda Kelly Grant, elder vice president of Casting and Talent Relations astatine Disney Branded Television. “By intentionally widening our search, creating nonstop connections pinch our casting and imaginative teams, and investing successful meaningful training, we’re ensuring that unique caller voices will proceed to specify Disney storytelling for years to come.”
“Our extremity is to find nan champion voices, and shorts are nan cleanable experimental canvas to thief america do that,” said Gino Guzzardo, vice president of Multiplatform Content astatine Disney Branded Television. “Over nan people of nan week, they’ll study from our seasoned storytellers, get acquisition successful nan signaling booth, and spot their performances germinate arsenic we usage improvisation techniques to create characters. We’ll extremity nan week pinch proof-of-concept characteristic shorts, nan champion of which will beryllium featured successful a afloat produced shorts assortment typical — a tangible illustration of what happens erstwhile caller talent is fixed nan abstraction and support to find their voice.”
Per Disney, arsenic pinch each its charismatic casting searches, location is ne'er a interest to audition aliases participate, and information does not guarantee employment.
