Carin Gilfry | Life After Juilliard

Postcards From Juilliard Alums

After graduating, I sang professionally for a few years with the Theatre du Chatelet, LA Opera, New York City Opera, and Santa Fe Opera. But then in 2012, I realized that while opera was a great love of mine, it wasn’t what I ultimately wanted to do. My greatest love had always been voice acting, so I took steps to make it happen. I built a home studio, I trained, I made demos, I auditioned 5 to 30 times a day, and I jumped into voiceover work. It took years of hard work to become a successful voice actor. I was, after all, starting a brand-new career. But the training I received at Juilliard helped immensely. At Juilliard, I learned discipline, dedication, and the art of study in addition to all the wonderful performance training. Today, I am the national brand voice of CVS Health and I’ve done commercial work for brands like FedEx, GrubHub, Citibank, Revlon, Neutrogena, Duncan Hines, Disney Toys, Audible.com, Adobe, Little Tikes, and many, many more. I run a 3,000+ member group called Voice Actors of NYC, and I am the co-creator and co-chair of the annual VOcation Conference in NYC, which focuses on the business side of voiceover. When COVID-19 hit in March, I was lucky to already be fully prepared to work from home. As companies all over the world adapted their messaging to fit the pandemic, they needed voice actors with professional home studios and recording capabilities to keep content new and relevant. While I’m not singing as much as I used to, I have never been happier or more fulfilled. I still do most of my work from my professional home studio, and I get to watch my little girls (ages 1 and 3) grow up every day. Life after Juilliard is pretty sweet!

Carin Gilfry (MM ’09, voice)