March 2019 LIVE Magazine

We discussed how Josh got his break in
voice acting, to which a smile crept across
his face as he said:
made a huge impression on him as he
realised that they were not mere cartoons.
Real people voiced these pieces of
animation, and with a bit of work he could
“I wanted to go from nerd to pro basically.
become one of them.
I got into theatre when I was 5 years old.
I did children’s theatre, then adult theatre
when I was old enough. I did that all the
way through high school… When I was
about 8 years old I decided I wanted to
do voice work. I’d been a huge fan of
animation my whole life and anime started
to get really huge in the States.”
“I found out, as I got closer to my high
school graduation, that Funimation and
ADV Films, who were 2 of the biggest
producers in the States at the time, were
both in my home state, 2 hours away from
me. So I did whatever research I could, tried
to find out ways to get in. Then a friend
of mine went to school with a girl that
The big anime boom of the late 90s, with
shows such as Dragon Ball Z and Pokemon
had done voices for ADV and got me their
phone number.”