Hey! It’s Dana Swanson. Here are some fast facts about my creative work.
- I’m a genderqueer performer with over 18 years of voice and on-stage experience. I also act and host on camera. For voice, I’m currently represented by Atlas Talent for animation/video games, promo, dubbing, commercial, and industrial VO. Unrepresented for on-camera.
- I’m based in Los Angeles, California by way of Atlanta, Georgia.
- My pronouns are they/them or she/her, but any pronouns are good!
- Contact for direct booking is danaswanswan@gmail.com. Contact for signing is currently danasverysecretemail@gmail.com.
You can catch me every week on Adult Swim’s Toonami as the artificial intelligence co-host, SARA. I’ve been voicing SARA since SARA’s return in April 2013 and has been with her for three incarnations: SARA 3.0, SARA 3.5, and SARA 4.0. Here’s the most recent 2022 short, “The Return,” featuring Steve Blum as T.O.M. and Dana Swanson as SARA.
You can also catch my recent voice work in the shorts Out for Delivery by Chelsea Crister and Hicks Happy Hour. I also co-narrated the audiobook Dateable about dating with disability. On camera-wise, I’m in the short Time Realtor by Ariel Gardner. I perform on stage with Bring Your Own Tribute Band and am developing a comedic solo show about movement.
I’m an improvisor and songwriter who started voice acting during my time working at Adult Swim. Notable other AS roles include Glenn’s Wife on Squidbillies, She Creature on Aqua Teen Hunger Force, and the Insane-o-Flex from Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters. If you haven’t listened to the workplace comedy/fantasy podcast Dark Ages, go do that. I play the legal magician Malison and love that character dearly.
I record promos, commercials, video games, and animation out of my home studio in Los Angeles, CA. I’m equipped with a Sennheiser MKH-416 and Shure SM7B and am set up for Source Connect Standard.
Recent voice training includes two intensives and a Singing in Character workshop with Ned Lott, workshops with Sara Jane Sherman, commercial coaching with Mary Lynn Wissner of Voices Voicecasting, 3 months of accent bootcamp with Mark Byron Dallas’s Delicious Dialects, 2 years of cross-training with Eliza Jane Schneider’s Character Acting Academy/Dialect Master Class, vocal health intensive with Yvonne Morley-Chisholm, and a looping intensive with Terri Douglas. Additional recent coaches include Jesse Inocalla, Karen Strassman, Rick Wasserman, Bill Ratner, and Tatiana Grey. Additionally, I’m a member of Queervox.
Recent on stage training includes studying with the Idiot Workshop, Eric Davis, Kevin Krieger of Public Displays of Altadena, and Improvised Stand up master Ever Mainard.
Previous training includes a Drama minor at University of Georgia and almost twenty years of training, teaching, and improvising with Dad’s Garage Theatre Company out of Atlanta, GA.
Favorite dialects include Southern (Georgia), Al Pacino’s version of New York, “Game of Thrones”-style RP, and all Nordic dialects (Icelandic, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, and Finnish).
Dana’s ancestry is Nordic, English/Northwestern European, Scottish, Germanic, and Welsh.