As foreign-language content becomes more common on streaming platforms, live action dubbing has become a more specialized and demanding corner of the craft. It takes a combination of skills to make a foreign performance feel seamlessly native: cold reading under pressure, following a dynamic scrolling script while staying connected to the performance on screen, matching lip sync with precision, and honoring the emotional truth of the original performance, all in real time. Tools like VoiceQ and Rhythmo Band replace static paper scripts with a dynamic scrolling guide, functioning as a kind of karaoke for dubbing, but the technical demands are only part of the story.
Join a panel of working professionals including Director Destinee Stewart, Casting Director Dorit Simone, Actors Carlin James and Andria Kozica, Dubbing Producer and Editor Nicholas Fluhr and Recording Engineer Philippe Van Doorne as they discuss what makes this work distinct, how the collaborative process with directors and engineers unfolds in the booth, how these projects are cast, and what actors need to know to build a career in this quickly growing field.
Moderated by Ted Sroka, SAG-AFTRA Foundation
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Destinee Stewart is a director, writer, and dubbing creative lead whose work explores identity, transformation, and belonging. She has collaborated on international dubbing productions for Netflix, helping bring global stories to English-speaking audiences on titles including Love Is Blind, Firebreak, In His Shadow, and Bandi.
As a filmmaker, Stewart's short film The Other Partners premiered at the Oscar-qualifying RiverRun International Film Festival in 2024. Most recently, she directed The Inheritance through the AFI Directing Workshop for Women+, a proof-of-concept short exploring ancestral trauma, memory, and erasure.
A Satellite Collective Fellow, Stewart is committed to creating expansive stories that center underrepresented voices, both in her original work and through the art of performance localization.
Dorit Simone is the founder of DS Casting Agency. She is a casting director who has worked extensively in film, anime and videos games and specializes in voice casting. Dorit has worked on a number of projects with leading industry streamers and creators including Netflix, Disney, Amazon, and Warner Brothers. Some of her credits include popular series' Money Heist, Fauda, and Lupin.
Dorit comes from a background in theater studies and studied at NYU, Stella Adler, Oxford University and many others. Her past experiences with acting, directing and writing have all helped her understand both the directors' vision and the actors' process when casting a project.
Carlin James, born and raised in Long Beach, CA., started out as a hip hop dancer before entering the world of acting. He has appeared in numerous commercials, TV shows, and films. Most notably, he can be found scaling an icy volcano in It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, beating up Saul in Better Call Saul, and has guest starred on 3 different shows within the NCIS Universe -- NCIS, NCIS: New Orleans, and NCIS: Hawai'i. In 2019, he found himself happily stumbling into the voiceover world, and has since racked up over 175+ live-action dubbing roles and lent his voice to projects like Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Prime Video’s Secret Level.
Andria Kozica is a native of Chicago and a graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. In Los Angeles she is a member of IAMA Theatre Company and has been seen in dozens of productions on stage, film and television. Andria has dubbed 120+ titles for Netflix, Disney, Hulu, HBO, Warner Brothers, Paramount and F1, including Cat's Eyes, Fake Profile, Blood & Gold, Eat Pray Bark, Firebreak and A Copenhagen Love Story.
Nicholas Fluhr grew up in Glendale, California with an ambition to work long term in the film industry. He started out making short films with his friends for fun, then later got involved with production sound. After discovering the post audio world and earning a BA in Recording Arts and a Minor in Music at Loyola Marymount University, he worked at Apple with the audio team for Apple Fitness+. He also had a short term position at Formosa working with client services. While working there, he was exposed to a Production workflow, which he eventually took to Dubbing Brothers to work as a Dubbing Producer.
Nicholas has since produced English Language Dubbing Projects for clients such as Netflix and Disney, including Anime and Live Action shows. Once a spot opened up in the audio department, he transferred over and became a recordist/editor. Some notable titles he has worked on include: Baki Dou: The Invincible Samurai, Firebreak, The Fragrant Flower Blooms With Dignity, and Salvador.
Philippe Van Doorne is an audio engineer with 7 years of industry experience. He has recorded and edited projects for major studios. As an audio engineer, he’s worked on projects for Disney, Netflix, Warner Brothers, and Amazon. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in business with a concentration in audio engineering from Five Towns College.
