Spotlight Open House: Voice Over Industry Panel

Please note: Members are limited to two events per person, and one ticket to each event during Open House. This is to ensure as many members as possible get the chance to experience the events on offer.

Age Range: 18+
Clothing Req: Comfortable
Prep Req: N/A

About the session

This will be a jam-packed panel talk with all the voice over coaches from that day's workshops, run by Rachael Naylor, who will talk about what is happening in the industry as well as agents, getting work, home studios, marketing, and more.

Please send any questions over to openhouse@spotlight.com.

About Rachael Naylor

Rachael Naylor is a well-known voiceover artist, actor, multi-award-winning entrepreneur, Editor of The Buzz Magazine, host of The Voiceover Hour and founder of The VoiceOver Network.

Rachael is a trained actor and started her voice acting journey over 17 years ago. She is passionate about the voiceover industry and started The VoiceOver Network in order to help strengthen it. As a voice actor; she has voiced thousands of commercials as well as corporate videos, video games, promo’s, documentaries, e-learning, narrations, radio dramas and more.

About Dian Perry:

Dian Perry is a seasoned U.S. voice artist, teacher and voice over coach based in the UK. With 20 years in the industry, her work has been heard on television, radio, video games, in soft toys, animation series and films worldwide. She has also worked on countless commercials, narrations, telephone systems and there are a few Honda drivers in the States who will be listening to her tell them where to turn! Dian is also an experienced coach and teacher and holds a teaching certificate (PTLLS Level 4). She has facilitated workshops throughout the UK and most recently, in Latvia for the Riga International Film Festival. Her favourite is the animation workshop she has developed especially for The VoiceOver Network.

About Anna Parker-Naples

Anna Parker-Naples is an experienced Award-Winning Audiobook Narrator. Her work was recognised in May 2015 when she received an Audiofile Earphones Award and she was a finalist in two categories of the Voice Arts Awards in Nov 2015 for Best Romance Audiobook and Best Teen Audiobook.

Anna regularly works with best-selling titles and award-winning authors. She has many titles available on Audible, and more awaiting release, having worked with top audio publishers, Audible, White House Sound, Harper Audio and Brilliance Publishing. In addition, Anna is an official Talking Books Narrator for the Royal National Institute for the Blind.

About Racheal Beresford

With over 15 years experience in the industry and voicing for clients including the BBC, Volvo, Audible, McDonalds and Kelloggs, you can be confident Rachael will deliver your message, tone and tale just as you wish it.

Rachael is a passionate believer in continuous professional development and consistently attends training courses and networking events.

About Roger Woods

An award-winning voiceover artist with more than 25 years experience in broadcasting and journalism.

If you have any accessibility requirements please do let us know. (Please note - unfortunately Spotlight Rooms and Studios are not wheelchair accessible. We will be holding workshops on Wednesday at a fully accessible venue. Please email marketing@spotlight.com if you wish to attend one of these.)