Origin Story
Hi neighVOr! Dave Soltura here, founder of Voice Actors at Home and Voice Actors at Home PH.
In September of 2021, my father, mother, brother, and brother-in-law exhibited life-threatening cases of COVID 19. It was the beginning of an uphill climb for our family. We made frequent trips to the hospital, struggled to maintain a supply of oxygen, had seemingly unsolvable financial strain, and were just overall… afraid and exhausted. Every day was an emergency.
Thankfully, the generosity of the voice over community, loved ones, friends, and even strangers helped us overcome the first wave of medical expenses. Then, a past client reached out to me for a voice over project that covered most of our personal expenses for a few months. It dawned on me that being a voice actor afforded me the time to be there for my family. Being a voice actor wasn’t the solution to all of this, but it certainly helped.
Thanks to these experiences, on September 30, 2021, I founded Voice Actors at Home PH while my family was still in the hospital.
Since then, more than a dozen bright and passionate leaders have joined our team so that we can help home-based voice actors experience the benefits of community, financial security, and time.
We’re on an urgent mission to help 200 Filipinos earn full-time home voice acting incomes by 2023.
Are you one of them?
Mission
Long-term: Help 1,000 Filipinos earn full-time home voice acting incomes.
Vision
A thriving community, school, and business that helps Filipinos earn full-time with voice overs at home, through complete education and services.
7 Cs of Complete Education
1. Consistent
2. Cost-effective
3. Convenient
4. Custom
5. Curated
6. Comprehensive
7. Compassionate
Values
1. Put first things first.
2. Think win-win.
3. Be kind, speak truth.
4. People over profit.
5. Progress over perfection.
6. Close enough to relate, far enough to elevate.
7. Light a candle, don’t curse the dark.
8. Work hard and go to bed.
Meet the Team
The Community Leaders of VAH PH
Dave Soltura
Founder, Head of Growth & Coaching
Dave Soltura is a voice actor, demo reel producer, American accent coach, Youtuber, and the founder of Voice Actors at Home and Voice Actors at Home PH. He enjoys helping voice actors live their dream of earning full-time from home. When not hustling, he obsesses over software, serves his church, and dotes on the love of his life.
April Soltura
Chief of Operations
April Soltura is a songwriter, musician, video editor, and an aspiring filmmaker and UI UX designer. She also has a background in the field of Development Communication and research but decided to pursue her love for content creation since she is a creative at heart.
Jae Montañez
Executive Assistant
Jae Montañez is a multi-passionate creative who provides his talents, clerical skills, systems building, and client servicing experience in order to help freelancers and entrepreneurs (such as voice actors) be able to run their business in a dynamic but systematic way.
Aaron Pagdilao
Head of Branding & Visuals Committee
Aaron Pagdilao is a minimalist photographer, video editor, graphic artist, freelance writer, voice actor, and all around creative who’s using his design skills to help people out. A storyteller at heart, Aaron spends his time streaming D&D with his friends or writing up fictional worlds (if he isn’t working out).
Luis Cruz
Head of Content Committee
Luis is a father, husband, geek, fitness & health nut, and many other things. He has worked in communications for over two decades, and since 2018, has focused on voice acting in both English and Filipino.
Claire Bernal-Cruz
Head of Human Relations Committee
Claire Bernal-Cruz started her Voice Acting journey on the 4th of July 2020, out of boredom due to the pandemic lockdown in the Philippines, and months of nagging by her husband to give it a try. She never considered doing any form of acting at all since she preferred sports growing up abroad in Alexandria, Egypt and Jakarta, Indonesia. But at the age of 44, she fell in love with voice acting and absolutely enjoys it!
Ria Vrana
Head of Moderation Committee
Ria Vrana is a Filipino Voice Artist based in Czech Republic. She’s an excellent communicator, writer, teacher, and has also successfully managed and organized numerous events in her multi-faceted career. Her love for vocal performances led her from singing to voice acting. When not teaching, writing, communicating with her bosses, or voice acting, she is busy chasing after her toddler and being an exceptional mom and wife.
Joelle Villafranca
Head of Systems Committee
Joelle Villafranca is a Voice Actor, who prior, has had 11 years of Advertising, HR, and Operations experience under her belt. Other than VO work, she loves creating efficient processes (especially when it can be digitally transformed) because finding ways to make life simpler to make room for more important things, is what drives her. To her, family is still #1… and VO is a very, very, very close #2.
Xta
Head of Events Committee
Xta is an IT Professional by day and a voice artist for life. A singer and events host, and a voice actor. Its a dream of hers that the voice acting industry can be instrumental for the empowerment of local small start-up businesses, while keeping the respect to all voice artists, as a professional.
Iggy Sapalo
Legal Consultant & Member of Systems Committee
Iggy Sapalo is a lawyer by profession, but his theater background led him to pursue his interest in Voice Acting. He helps advise new Voice Actors about their rights, and hopes to assist in uplifting and improving the Voice Over industry through legal means.
Erwin Natividad
Member of Marketing Committee
Erwin Natividad is a Voice Actor,
Don Reyes
Content Contributor
Donn Reyes is a voice actor, virtual assistant, and an executive secretary for his family’s business. He worked as an Administrative Officer for a water utility firm before pursuing his ambition of becoming a voice actor while simultaneously working as a virtual assistant and secretary during the day. His love of anime, series, movies, and books is the primary motivation behind his beginning his career as a voice actor. He enjoys singing as a hobby. FAMILY IS ALWAYS THE FIRST PRIORITY.
Coaches
Meet our group of experts who will help you in your journey.
Dave Soltura
Coach
Dave Soltura is a voice actor, demo reel producer, American accent coach, Youtuber, and the founder of Voice Actors at Home and Voice Actors at Home PH. He enjoys helping voice actors live their dream of earning full-time from home. When not hustling, he obsesses over software, serves his church, and dotes on the love of his life.
Aireen Bondoc
Coach
Aireen Bondoc, commonly known in the industry as “A”, has been doing Dubbing Scripts Translation, Adaptation and Pre-synching since her college days. She is a full-time Voice Actor at Home while also being a 100% momma to her two little boys. With her love for acting, plus her high-spirited character, she can outright give you a showcase of just about what you require of her. Subtly taking pride, and sharing her skills to those also wanting a humble life in the Voice Acting World.
Jeula Agbayani
Coach
Jeula Agbayani is an Advertising-Producer-turned-Voice-Actor, a Dubber, a Dubbing Rewriter, and a Marketing and Voice Coach for VocAlliance and Voice Actors at Home PH. She enjoys playing video games like Minecraft and The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, and loves thrift shopping online. In her free time, she naps, binges Netflix shows, and “makes lambing” her boyfriend and her cats.
Ryan Bondoc
Coach
Ryan Bondoc is a professional Voice Actor and Dubbing Director for various local channels including GMA 7, TV5, ABS-CBN, also on Subscription Streaming Channels, and international cable channels. He has been a practioner in the Voice Over industry for 16 years and has also done various Radio & TV commercials, AVP projects for schools and companies; government and private.
Zahn Yu
Coach
Zahn Yu is a Voice Actor who has been in the business for 30 years. He gets a thrill sharing with his colleagues the art and craft of voice acting, and is always thirsty to learn ways to be better at it himself. He loves movies and television, discovering delicious gastronomic experiences, and traveling.
Want to become one of us?
Your journey to becoming a voice actor at home awaits!