Melissa Disney is a voice, stage, and on-camera actor, singer and songwriter.

She's recorded commercial campaigns for McDonalds, Lexus, Sprint, Doritos, Ford, and more. Voiced promos for the NFL, HGTV, ABC, CBS, Fox, and numerous radio stations across the US.

She's the voice of the Oscars, Emmy, and the Billboard Music Awards. But many of us will know her as the first female voice of movie trailers for her groundbreaking and award-winning work across multiple genres of trailers including Tom Cruise in Mission Impossible and Nicholas Cage in Gone in 60 Seconds.

On this episode of Benztown Stories Loren chats with Melissa about...

1. Start on the stage and getting into Voice Over


2. Don LaFontaine and Melissa's entry into the male-dominated world of movie trailers


3. Singing, acting, following a guy to an audition, moving to Texas


4. Booking the voice of the Oscars while in labor at the hospital


5. Her famous name

ABOUT THIS EPISODE'S GUEST:

Web: melissadisney.com

Twitter: twitter.com/melissadisney

Instagram: instagram.com/melissadisneyjames

ABOUT THE PODCAST:

Benztown Voiceover Stories is brought to you by Benztown branding and podcast services and hosted by Loren Kling with Alan Ng.

ABOUT BENZTOWN:

Benztown is a leading international radio imaging, production library, programming, jingles and voiceover services company with over 2,300 affiliations on six different continents.

We provide custom VO and imaging across all formats, including commercial VO and copywriting. Benztown Radio Networks produces, markets and distributes high-quality programming and services to radio stations around the world.

In 2017, Benztown was named to the prestigious Inc. 5000 by Inc. magazine for the fifth consecutive year as one of America’s Fastest Growing Privately Held Companies.

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