About the Blogger

Craig “Voiceroy” Crumpton was born in 1971 and has a lifelong, consuming interest in voice acting and voice actors, particularly in animation. Originally from Memphis, TN, Craig and his wife Joy live in the Atlanta, GA area where he works as a freelance performer, actor, singer and voice talent, as well as an acting/singing coach. (Visit ActorsAccess.com for a complete list of Craig’s performance work.)

Craig has more than 15 years experience as a performer, and has toured professionally with award-winning Gospel groups Acappella (acappella.org) and The Daybreak Quartet (daybreakquartet.com), and has been a featured singer/performer for live events throughout the Atlanta area and in 48 states since 2000.

Craig has also worked as background and crew on a number of films and TV shows, including Due Date, Life As We Know It, Meet The Browns, House of Payne, The Game, Reed Between The Lines, Drop Dead Diva, The Vampire Diaries, Ben 10: Alien Swarm, Contagion, upcoming films The Three Stooges, Neighborhood Watch, Parental Guidance, and he had a small supporting role in The Conspirator directed by Robert Redford. And look for his first leading role as a villain in the kids/family movie The Solomon Bunch releasing April 2012.

In 2009, Craig was the lead voice and puppeteer for the live, interactive computer-animated “Hilda The Christmas Goat” show at a Stone Mountain Christmas in Stone Mountain, GA. And in 2010, he performed both principal and supporting roles in The Golden Age of Radio Show directed by Adult Swim voice actor Scott Hilley. At Dragon*Con 2011, Craig performed as a comedian and singer at the prestigious “Guest of Honor Awards Banquet,” where he shared the stage with such industry notables as Peter David, James Darren, and William Shatner. Craig was booked for the sole purpose of doing Star Trek-themed comedy, and had the daunting task of imitating “The Shat” with “The Shat” sitting in the audience.

Craig performs regularly at schools and libraries as a storyteller, and is the founder of a performance-based reading program teaching kids the craft of storytelling and how to create character voices. He also performs live comedy and music shows for schools, churches, and corporate events, and is currently developing a series of musical comedy projects — the first of which will debut at SAVCON (unofficial Transformers convention) in Savannah, GA, June 2012: Transformers: The Movie: The Musical: A Real Space Opera.

Craig has also studied with some of the voice-over industry’s top instructors: Bob Bergen, Bill Holmes, Mary Lynn Wissner, James Alburger, Susan Berkley, Tony Gonzales, Scott Hilley, and has been mentored since the 90s by strong>Pat Fraley.

For a sample of Craig’s voice talents and live performance work, here’s a video from 2004 with Craig’s comedic interpretation of the classic poem Casey At The Bat, in which he performs more than 30 character voices and impressions:

In addition to serving as Publisher and Editor-In-Chief of Voice Actors in the News, Craig has a long history of service to the fandom:

– Staff Reporter, toonzone.net [Since 1999]
– Founder/Host, Animated Media Collectors [Est. 2011]
– Founder/Host, The Voice Actor Appreciation Society [Est. 2000]
– Publisher, The Atlanta Fandom Guide [Est. 2006]
– Panel Host/Panelist/Performer, Dragon*Con (Atlanta, GA)
– Panelist, Anime Weekend Atlanta
– Contributor, Georgia Transformers Fans
– Arts Editor, The Open Directory Project (ODP — dmoz.org) — also home to The V.A.U.L.T: The Voice Actors Ultimate Links Treasury, a web project Craig began developing in 1999 as a resource for voice actor enthusiasts and professionals. (The V.A.U.L.T. is currently under a massive reorganization project.)

Craig also has a personal blog he uses as a creative outlet when he needs a break from news reporting:
Vox In Sox: And Knowing Is Half The Babble.