DB Cooper
With a pedigree in musical and dramatic theater, DB has been acting and directing for more than 30 years. You’ve heard DB in Bioshock 2, Shadowverse, DC Universe Online, Hearthstone, Job Simulator; and in Monster Train where she created voices for 47 Good Guys, 18 Bad Guys, and 10 other creatures for the Legions of Heaven and Hell. Her work on the 2025 release of Monster Train 2 included 37 voices. DB was VO Supervisor for ZeniMax Online Studios; casting and directing 13 projects for The Elder Scrolls Online. She's the voice of the BMW iVISION Dee, featured at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, 2023, and the announcer for the 2025 Nordics Bartender’s Choice Awards. DB has narrated corporate films for Chanel, Merck, NVIDIA, and HTC. She's also the narrator for Run. Hide. Fight. -- The FBI’s active shooter training program. She was producer/director for summer stock theater-in-a-barn for 9 years, a classic rock radio deejay for 6, and a commercial announcer for CBS Radio for 13 years. DB is a vocal archetype, creature sound, and video game combat consultant, teaching people how to take bullets, howl in agony, and die since 2007.
GDEX 2025 Session: Developing Voices | As more and more games include voice and dialogue, the need for well-prepared directors increases. The object of this talk is to alert new dialogue directors to the magnitude of the task, and offer seasoned professionals some new tools for their arsenals of communication and collaboration.
GDEX 2025 Workshop: Audio Derby Challenge | The GDEX Audio Derby is a long time classic. Guests can bring short musical tracks, and sound effects, to listen to in front of our industry panel and audience as they provide grounded and useful advice to improve your skills! (Guests must bring their own music on a thumb/hard drive or easily accessible format. Please keep your content to 5 minutes or less to provide enough time for everyone to get an opportunity.)
GDEX 2025 Workshop: VO Audition: LIVE! 2025 | Some game auditions are loaded with lore, character details, and direction. Others have a handful of lines with no context. No matter what you’re given, it’s your job to create a memorable character. You need to craft a performance that stands out, so you’re heard above the roar of actors “playing it safe”. Join casting director/actor DB Cooper as she guides you thru an audition workout with real game scripts. Find your sense of scene, explore actions and emotional states, play around, go off-road. Get bold. Get hot. Get strong. Get cast.
GDEX 2025 Panel: Navigating the World of Audio | This illustrious panel will talk about all the ins and outs of the audio world in video games, voice acting, movies, and tv. Featuring industry professionals from a variety of areas, this is a great opportunity to learn. Feel free to bring and ask questions.
