The New York Anime Festival (NYAF) will host “Who Wants to be a Voice Actor?”, a voice acting contest that will give the winner a chance to be a professional voice actor. The contest will be open to attendees of the festival, and will be held on Sunday 9 December at 12:30PM.
Contestants will compete in three rounds. Round 1 will consist of Prepared Material, with contestants performing prepared, one-minute monologues. Those who survive will move on to Round 2, the Versatility Challenge, during which, “For the delight of the audience and the embarrassment of the contestants, those remaining in the game will be provided with a passage and a specific character-type to use when reading their text. This wild and wacky event is all about speed, poise, and having a good sense of humor as our contestants will have to instantly conjure up characters from every corner of the imagination.” Finally, Round 3 will feature Automatic Dialogue Replacement, which is “what voice acting is all about. The final group of contestants must lend their voices to an actual anime character. No prep, no rehearsal, no sweat… right?”
The contest is being produced by New York City studios NYAV Post and TripWire Productions, and will be judged by Michael Sinterniklaas and Tom Wayland, respectively, the studios’ founders.
Full details and official entry forms, which must be delievered to the NYAF Show Office by 11:30AM on 9 December, are available on this page.