The listener must be able to immediately discern one character from another. We hire actors of all ages, races, shapes, sizes, and experience. Experience is not required, but is preferred. As for the company's ability to work with actors around the country, Mind's Ear intentionally limits itself. Instead, the company takes great pains to create recording situations rich with human interaction, set in natural settings, shunning the sterile studio environment, where each actor is recorded in complete isolation.
Actors work face to face, as that give and take lends great realism and warmth to a recording.
That said, we will only work with an actor's lines recorded in a remote studio if it is the ONLY way to get that person's performance on tape.