Welcome to the Voice Over Insider Interview Series.
In these interviews we’ll attempt to go beyond the typical questions and get to the real performer behind the microphone, and bring you their insights from an educational point of view.
This week:
Joe Cipriano Interview
Media – Web/Internet
www.minewurx.com – A voice over training website.
Interviewer: Michael Minetree
Joe Cipriano
Joe – or Cip – if I may call you that – let me start this off the way I always do by saying thank you for taking the time out of your schedule – which we all know is one of the busiest in VO- to participate in this interview. Lord knows you didn’t have to do it, which makes it that much more special that you did.
There are some things about your career and your performance ability which fascinate me. We’ll start with the career side of things first. Your radio career is one of the better documented ones – many interviews can be found on your website – as well as on the net. So I’ll try my hardest not to make a repeat. But I can’t help hit it just a little with this:
Take us back in time – You started off as a jock – in the radio sense of the term – when you were just a kid really. A junior in high school? Did you ever, in your wildest of fantasies back then, dream that you would end up where you are today? Or did radio just seem like a cool thing to do at the time?
Growing up in a small town, I didn’t have many options to start a career in television or acting or whatever it was I was going to end up doing in the business. My dreams were to be in a sitcom or host a tv show and the only way I could start on that path locally was to get into radio. At the same time, I did community theater but I always thought radio was going to be the medium that would move me forward.