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Do you use a VO pseudonym, and why?
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Lee Gordon
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 06, 2010 1:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I suppose this is the same as changing the spelling, but perhaps you could just mash your first and middle names together and be Perryanne. I once worked with a woman named Terianne and her twin sister's name was Gerianne.
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 06, 2010 2:18 pm    Post subject: Pseudonyms Reply with quote

Hmmm. Not a bad thought...

Or maybe I'll just go by PerryAnne and drop the last name, like Madonna Kiss
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 06, 2010 4:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Mine isn't really a pseudonym since Rhys is actually my middle name - courtesy of my Welsh dad.
My actual family name is Potter of all things. I suppose it could be a major branding opportunity with its connection to the boy wizard, but I'm a Brit and we don't generally ride the brandwagon.

Potter - The Voice Wizard Barf
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 06, 2010 5:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

When I was in the "film" business in the San Fernando Valley I used my
stage name - Scotty Birchwood.
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 06, 2010 5:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

When I was in NYC I wouldn't have had a clue to that which you allude. The Valley, that is. Sarcastic
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 06, 2010 8:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

/threadjack alert/

Perry Anne! SO nice to see you here!
Welcome! Laugh

/end threadjack/
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 06, 2010 9:06 pm    Post subject: HI FROM PERRY Reply with quote

Liz!!

Thanks for saying hello. I love the VOBB but I have trouble finding people sometimes Shocked

Hope life and work are everything you want them to be, and that business is good.

What's new in your world? Coming to LA any time soon? Keep me posted, will you?

Hugs,
Perry
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 07, 2010 8:11 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Szymanski is a throw back to my radio days. My real name is Smith.

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PostPosted: Thu Oct 07, 2010 10:05 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Without really giving it much thought, I always used my first and middle names as my "air name" on college radio. Kept it that way all through my radio career, including 19 years at the same station in Miami where, unbelievably, I had the same PD the whole time (except for a stretch in the middle when he spent about a year in another market to save a station there).

Turned out to be a blessing in disguise, since there seemed to be a fairly strong bias against using DJs as voiceover talent in Miami back in the mid-80s, when I was starting my VO career. Made it easy to keep my "radio identity" separate from my "VO identity."
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 07, 2010 10:13 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

JTVG wrote:
Szymanski is a throw back to my radio days. My real name is Smith. Get Lost


Joe! You stole my line!

When I first spell MY name to a new person...and they invariably ask "How do you pronounce THAT?"...I usually say "Smith" Rolls Eyes
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 07, 2010 5:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Many times at restaurants when they take my name for a wait list I tell them "Smith", and as they start to write I tell them, "That's P-S-M-Y-T-H-E." I'm not sure why, but more often than not I get dirty look.


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PostPosted: Thu Oct 07, 2010 8:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

sometimes when I'm spelling something out and I come to a P I say "P, as in psychotic..."
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 08, 2010 11:17 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

"p" as in psychotic -- I will have to use that!
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