THE HIGH WIRE ACT OF AUDIO DESCRIPTION PERFORMANCE

Most people think Audio Description is describing what you see, and "pulling back." Audio Description performance is the opposite. It's understanding what the audience already feels and matching it: the tension in how characters speak to each other. What the score is doing. Where the story has been, and where it's going.

To get there, it takes two things working at once: technical precision and emotional intelligence. Lose either one, and the performance becomes about you, not the story. And a blind viewer is counting on you to hold the whole thing up.

A bladesmith shapes the edge. A coppersmith shapes what conducts. This session is both.

Roy Samuelson draws on 20+ years of AD performance, producing, and coaching across Netflix, Disney+, HBO Max, and Hulu to break down how context shapes every word choice, why intent drives delivery more than accuracy…