Stoneham Voice Artist To Lead Waltham Seminars

The next time you’re listening to an announcer on a radio advertisement or hear a television narrator trying to sell you something, listen closely. That voice you’re hearing just might be that of resident voiceover artist Jill Goldman.

Goldman loved to sing as far back as she can remember, and that love grew to a wide array of styles, ranging from her role as a choir singer with the Polymnia Choral Society in Melrose to belting out jazz tunes with the Brockton-based Kadima Band.  

But by 2008, she wondered if she could do more with her voice and began to look into using her voice to learn about breaking into the world of voice acting.

Today, her abilities have grown to the point where she's helping organize two days of seminars at on April 16 and April 17 with other longtime voice acting professionals to help both experienced and newcomers to the microphone find their voice and potentially build a career around it.

Goldman said it’s possible for just about anyone to follow the path she’s taken if they’re willing to put in the time and effort, although there are a few steps they have to follow before they can make a living at it.

“First you have to learn to become comfortable around the microphone and learn about voice acting because in the end it truly is being an actor,” Goldman said. “Down the line you need to learn about marketing strategies and making the business work for you in this day and age, which is continually changing.”

While Goldman hopes to fully transition into a life behind a microphone, for now she still also retains the trigger-point therapy business she developed before she got into voice acting.

“If (only) my patients would ever let me stop, but they still want me, so it’s been very hard to quit,” Goldman said of her pressure point practice. “My goal is to shift the balance of the work to voiceover work and do more of that and less trigger point work, which seems to be happening, so I guess it’s going according to plan.”

But while she may be seeing less of her clients in the near future, Stoneham looks like it will remain a part of Goldman’s life as she continues to grow as a voice artist.

“What I like about Stoneham is that it’s convenient to where I need to go, it’s close to Boston and it’s close to the highway so I can get to auditions and classes and things like that,” Goldman said. “And having the here too has been inspirational for me, knowing that there are other actors around that are interested in similar things.

"What can I say? I love Stoneham.”

For more information on the upcoming voiceover workshops at Brandeis University, contact Jill Goldman via email at jill@goldivox.com. To listen to Goldman's demos, visit the Voices website.