How to Self-Tape an Audition That Gets You Called Back
Your self-tape audition is now your first impression. Here is how to set it up, frame it, and perform it so the work, not the tech, gets noticed.
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How to Become an Audiobook Narrator: A Practical Starting Guide
Narration is acting for the ear, sustained for hours. Here are the skills, gear, demos, and platforms that help new narrators get started.
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How to Cry on Cue: A Body-First Guide for Actors
Forcing tears almost never works. Here is a body-first way to cry on cue that keeps the emotion real, repeatable, and safe across take after take.
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What 21+ Audiobooks Taught Me About Feelings
A booth, a microphone, a script, and one human being trying to live every emotion in the book, sometimes in the same hour. This is what 21+ audiobooks taught me about feelings. When you narrate audiobooks for a living, you don’t get to specialize in one emotional register. A romance might ask you to be…
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Audie and AudioFile Award-Winning Narrator Donnabella Mortel Walker Launches New Episodic Romantasy Series Against Orbit
Press Feature The Against Orbit Romantasy Series: Performance, Pacing, and a Format Built for Return Donnabella Mortel Walker · Against Orbit With the Against Orbit romantasy series, award-winning audiobook narrator Donnabella Mortel Walker is stepping into a new format. In a storytelling landscape driven by immediacy and connection, this one is designed not just to…
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Donnabella Mortel Walker launches ‘Emotional Range Training’ — a curriculum built from two decades of professional performance, not theory.
There is a moment every actor knows. Donnabella Mortel Walker designed the Emotional Range Training curriculum for exactly that moment. You are in the middle of a scene. The lines are memorized. The blocking is clean. Everything is technically correct, and yet something is missing. It is that invisible thing that separates a performance from…
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Donnabella Mortel Narrates Multiple Characters in Horizon Forbidden West
Donnabella Mortel lends her voice to Horizon Forbidden West, the critically acclaimed Sony PlayStation title. She plays two characters: Targa and Zenkalla. In the recording studio. Horizon Forbidden West is one of PlayStation’s flagship action-adventure franchises. It is celebrated for its cinematic storytelling, vast open world, and richly performed cast of characters. Voicing Two Roles…
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Donnabella Mortel Books an AT&T Commercial
The Donnabella Mortel AT&T commercial is a national spot for one of America’s largest telecommunications brands. It also adds another household name to her commercial reel. Watch Donnabella Mortel in the AT&T commercial. AT&T runs some of the most widely seen campaigns on television. Its spots reach audiences nationwide across broadcast and digital. So booking…
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Donnabella Mortel Books Two McDonald’s Commercials
Not one, but two. The Donnabella Mortel McDonald’s commercials are a pair of national spots for one of the most recognized brands in the world. The First McDonald’s Commercial The first national McDonald’s spot. The first spot is part of the McDonald’s Game Time Gold campaign featuring Deion Sanders. You can also view it on…
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Donnabella Mortel Makes a Guest Appearance in YouTube’s “Escape the Night”
Donnabella Mortel appears in Escape the Night, the hugely popular YouTube interactive horror-mystery series. It is a bold, theatrical role in a digital-first world. Watch Donnabella Mortel in Escape the Night. About Escape the Night Escape the Night blends period costume drama, horror, and interactive mystery into a binge-worthy YouTube series. Over its run, it…
