205 - Voice Over Finds a Way! Growing Roots and Putting in the Work with Ryan Bartley

Ryan Bartley

is an actress from Fort Worth, Texas. She began her acting career when she was only six years old, performing with a musical theater touring company and in various plays and musicals at Creative Arts Theater and School in Arlington, Texas. She started working in voice-over performing for Radio Disney and later voicing the lead character of Emi Ito for the New Horizon English Textbook used throughout the country of Japan. She’s also lent her voice to multiple radio campaigns and television promos for top clients like McDonald's, Build-A-Bear Workshop, and Disney Channel. Ryan can be heard in the English language dubs of several popular anime series including Neon Genesis Evangelion as Rei Ayanami, Carole and Tuesday as Angela, Hunter x Hunter as Komugi, Re:ZERO as Ram, Love Live! School Idol Project, Your Lie in April, Mob Psycho 100, Konosuba, Berserk, Sword Art Online The Movie: Ordinal Scale, Jojo’s Bizarre Adventures: Stardust Crusaders, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, and much, much more! She voices Jay the bluejay on the Netflix Original Animated Series Treehouse Detectives, Pammee in Yoohoo To The Rescue, and Young Zeta on Nickelodeon’s Shimmer and Shine. She’s also worked on video game projects like Persona 5: Royal, Pokemon Masters, and Fire Emblem Heroes. Her on-camera credits include the critically acclaimed Indie Web Series L.A. Macabre, where she played Jamie Holbrook, and the Lifetime Movie Queen Sized in which she played Emily Dosik.

Show Notes

Ryan Bartley (Neon Genesis Evangelion, Hunter x Hunter, Carole and Tuesday) stops in to chat with the Rolling Wild Fam about her process, the VO community, and how voice actors are transitioning to work through quarantine and COVID-19. We chat about standardizing your home set-up, building your set-up little by little, staying focused, being business-minded as well as an artist, and working through “failure” with a long-term mindset.

Music:

Loopy by Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue)