The Voice That Crossed Oceans: Award-Winning Narrator Curtis Michael Holland on Authenticity & Accents

On today's episode, I sat down with Curtis Michael Holland. From toy bowling pins turned into microphones and cardboard-box stages in small-town Canada… to a custom-built, double-walled vocal booth in Hong Kong… we talk about his journey across the globe to where he's at now. A former international IB theatre teacher and director with 12+ years across Kuwait, Italy, Tianjin, Shanghai, and Hong Kong, Curtis pivoted to full-time narration during the pandemic — right after a near-death illness on a tropical island left him rethinking everything. Today he’s a SAG-AFTRA, PANA, and APA member living in Hong Kong with his partner, two ginger cats, and one very opinionated Boston Terrier. With 150+ audiobooks under his belt for Penguin Random House, Tantor, Dreamscape, Podium, Simon & Schuster, Scholastic, and more, Curtis specializes in romance, horror, humor, young adult, sci-fi, and authentic queer stories. His mixed-race, LGBTQIA2S+ background and fluency in accents & languages (Mandarin, Arabic, French, Italian, plus a huge range of character voices) bring depth and representation that listeners rave about. You can find out more about him at his website at www.curtismichaelholland.com   If you would like to be a guest on the show, let me know by visiting my website at https://www.narratorjames.com   If you would like to join my community on Discord, that link is here: https://discord.gg/6JKxwNQQJc   #AudiobookNarrator #CurtisMichaelHolland #VoiceActor #SAGAFTRA #Audiobooks #RomanceNarrator #HorrorNarrator #YANarrator #SciFiNarrator #QueerNarrator #HongKongNarrator #GlobalNomad #AudiofileEarphonesAward #TheatreTeacherToNarrator #PodcastGuest #AudiobookCommunity #LGBTQNarrator #MixedHeritageVoice #Podcast #IdiosyncraticFables #WildernessFireProductions