MorningStar Smiles

Welcome to MorningStar Smiles: The Voice Acting Website of Crystal Lonnquist! Here you will find information about me, my voice over work, some samples of my voice, awards I've won for voice acting, and other media. If you need to contact me, feel free to send me an e-mail at: crystalclearlynnATgmailDOTcom

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-Crystal Lonnquist
aka MorningStar Smiles

I'm like a dandelion. You just can't get rid of me! I will continue with voice over because it's what I love to do, no matter what gets in the way. New news is more NYU student projects (both film and voice over) and a few animation voice over projects for friends. But my new goal is to do more than what I've been doing and stop twiddling my thumbs while I wait to finish off my college loans. Paying those is like purgatory.

Something I especially enjoyed working on recently with Lucien was a NYU radioplay by Gen Kim. Kim's concept was to take the American prime time show 24 and replace the main characters with characters from Pokemon. Hilarity ensues and it turned out well so I thought I'd share it with you all. Enjoy!

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It's nice to be updating this more frequently! My second Pokemon audition turned out to be unsuccessful but I'm still proud of how it went in comparison to last time and figured out more of what they're looking for for voices. In other words, I know what to work on for next time.

In other news, FINALLY voice over requests have been coming in over the Tisch Talent Guild listings. I've got a voice over gig at NYU coming up on the 16th and hopefully there will be many more to come. In the meantime, it's back to Minnesota for Easter for me (April 9-12) and Japan April 30-May 14th.

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Whoo! New voice over news! First off, I sat in on a voice over class my roommate, Lucien Dodge, and Barbara Rosenblat taught a few weeks ago. It was great to finally meet Ms. Rosenblat after hearing so much about her and listening to her in past projects like Grand Theft Auto. She's got a really awesome voice and there's so much experience and skill behind it.I'm jealous of women who have the deeper richness and maturity in their voices that usually only men have. Lucien also pulled out a trick I hadn't heard before. I'm greatful the sound professor for allowing me to sit in on the class and my boss for being so surprisingly cool about letting me take off work in the middle of the day everytime I have something voice over related.

Soon after the class, I scored a roll in a senior's final recorded music & engineering project for a collection of stories she was producing. I narrated one of them and did background walla and side characters with another voice actress for another one at another session. I also used a Neumann U87 for the first time. Aaaah. So nice....

Finally, I've got another audition for Pokemon this Thursday!!!! I'm so so so excited. I really hope I get the role. Since I've auditioned for them once before I feel a lot more comfortable this time and know more of what to expect. Wish me luck!

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Ah, lovely March. Still attending NYC Playwrights for cold reading every Friday. We had a fundraiser last Saturday (clips available on the NYC Playwrights home page). It was nice to perform before new faces. I also acted in my first NYU student film last week. It was for an open scene so it allowed for more flexability than most scenes. Speaking of NYU, voice acting season is starting up again and I can't wait to get back into those studios. Hopefully I'll have news on various projects there soon. I need to keep my eyes and ears out for animation voice over projects at other colleges around the area too.

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Updates updates. Hmm. I'm not working hard enough at acting am I? I joined a cold reading group that meets once a week for 3 hours though so I'm still going at it! Plus voice acting season starts up soon for college students either at the end of this month or beginning of next so I'm going to try and get my demo out there and do more projects. Oh! And I'm moving in September. We figured out that there just isn't room for a sound studio in the tiny apartment I live in now so that's going to be one of the conditions on deciding on a new place. I'm going crazy not having a place I can record at whenever I want anymore. Yeah, definitely need to be working harder at acting though. The "full-time job" excuse can only go so far. Even if I do have about an hour each way commute to add to that. Voice related at least, I've been studying Japanese for the past 6 months-ish. It's a language I've always wanted to learn and I'm going there in June for a couple weeks to visit my twin sister who's studying abroad there currently. NYC is awesome as always because I have plenty of opportunities to practice here.

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MorningStar Smiles