Yuri Lowenthal and Tara Platt are officially launching their first-ever online voice acting course, VOICE-OVER VOICE ACTOR: The Course, available on November 11, 2025, through the Kajabi platform.
This launch marks the first time Lowenthal and Platt have translated their decades of combined behind-the-mic experience (spanning over 1,200 credits) into a structured, accessible program that students can take from anywhere, at their own pace.
The Single Most Valuable Component: Prioritizing Acting
In a recent interview with Temple of Geek, the pair shared what they believe is the single most important component in voice acting. When asked about the most valuable component for success, both Lowenthal and Platt strongly stressed the importance of acting above all else.
Tara Platt’s Perspective: The Core Skill
Platt states unequivocally that acting is the core skill required. She describes the process as being a “detective,” which involves thoroughly reading the script to figure out the essential who, what, where, when, why, and how. While creating unique character voices is enjoyable, she stresses that the ultimate key is to make the performance interesting and authentic by bringing humanity to the characters.
Tara Platt: My top one is that the acting is foremost. You’re voice acting, you’re an actor, and you want to be an enriched human being so you can make interesting acting choices. The acting of it is being a little detective and reading through that script and looking for the who, what, where, when, why, and how. Weird voices definitely have their place in the whole world of the craft of voiceover and voice acting. But how do you make that unique voice that you’re doing be interesting and have humanity and have us as the audience care? The way that you do that is through the acting of it.
Yuri Lowenthal’s Perspective: Emotional Stamina
Lowenthal believes that aspiring actors must first fall in love with acting through any means necessary (such as improv, drama club, or local theater). This is crucial for building the emotional stamina needed to persevere through countless unpaid auditions and rejections.
He also offers a practical recommendation: read aloud for three to five minutes every day. This daily exercise trains the brain to simultaneously comprehend a script and make informed acting choices—which, Lowenthal contends, is the true essence of voice acting.
Yuri Lowenthal: I think you have to fall in love with it. You gotta and explore acting however you can. You’ve gotta love it for it to get you through, because you’re not gonna get paid for most auditions and you’re not going to book it most of the time. Something that I know you stress a lot is reading aloud. So much of what we do is showing up on a job, and very often they don’t send you the script in advance. You better be good at picking up a thing that you’re reading for the first time and immediately starting to make choices. Immediately starting to read for comprehension, and immediately beginning to the first time you read it out loud, bring it to life.
Tara Platt: Being able to read for comprehension and make choices simultaneously, that’s the work. Often the first take, which is your first time reading those words ever in that order, is the take that gets used. If you sound like you’re reading, it’s never gonna fly.
Yuri Lowenthal: Luckily reading out loud is something that’s free that you can do every day. Read out loud just three to five minutes a day.
About the Course
Vice-Over Voice Actor: The Course, available November 11, 2025, on Kajabi. It is based on their acclaimed booksVice-Over Voice Actor: What It’s Like Behind the Mic and The Extended Edition. This self-paced program offers 17 in-depth modules. It provides over 9 hours of video instruction and guided exercises. It even has exclusive resources designed for aspiring voice actors at every level.
