Dana Swanson is a genderqueer voice actor represented by Atlas Talent for animation/video games, promo, dubbing, commercial, and industrial VO. Dana is based in Los Angeles, California, and their 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 them every week on Adult Swim’s Toonami as the artificial intelligence co-host, SARA. Dana has 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.
They are an improvisor and songwriter who pivoted to voice acting during their time working at Adult Swim. Notable other AS roles include Glenn’s Wife on Squidbillies and She Creature on Aqua Teen Hunger Force.
If you haven’t listened to the workplace comedy/fantasy podcast Dark Ages, go do that. Dana plays the legal magician Malison and loves that character dearly.
Dana records promos, commercials, video games, and animation all of the time out of their home studio in Los Angeles, CA. They love their Sennheiser MKH-416 and Shure SM7B and are set up for Source Connect Standard.
Recent training includes a 2023 intensive with Ned Lott, workshops with Sara Jane Sherman, 2022 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 for 2022/2023 include Jesse Inocalla, Karen Strassman, Rick Wasserman, Bill Ratner, and Tatiana Grey. Dana loves the IPA (international phonetic alphabet) and started an IPA club while dialect training to further understand mouth sounds. Additionally, Dana is a member of Queervox.
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.
Additional demos coming soon <3