This month, Speak Easy caught up with Heather Vergo, voiceover agent from Atlas Talent. I first met Vergo at the 2009 L.A. premiere of Disney’s “The Princess and the Frog” with her client Michael-Leon Wooley, who voiced the alligator Louis in the movie!
Jen: How did you land at Atlas Talent?Heather: I’m originally from Boston and moved to New York to work as an associate producer for daytime talk shows. Eight years ago, I realized that I wanted to go into a more casting-oriented job, and switched careers. I landed as an assistant at Atlas Talent in New York and eight months later became a promo agent. As a voiceover agent you do a lot of casting, so this is the perfect mix of my skill set: my business side and my creative side, and putting those things together.
Jen: And you were so successful in NYC that Atlas asked you to open up the L.A. office?Heather: Two and a half years into my NYC stint, Atlas wanted to expand into the L.A. market and develop the animation and commercial departments, and asked me to move out to L.A. to build those departments. Now we have three agents out here. We’re competing with the top agencies, but we do it on a boutique level. We have a boutique roster
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