“House calls” for Vocal Athletes: When and why on-location vocal checks are a game-changer with specialist laryngologist Reena Gupta, MD.

What strategies can help with stage fright?

There are a multitude of tools that may help an anxious performer. The Center for Vocal Health team has comprised a list that is a good starting point.

Stage fright is nearly universal among vocal performers. There are ways to get through stage fright without medications. Newer research helps us understand performance anxiety as a physiological, uncontrollable, and repetitive condition that must be approached with more empathy and a deliberate, holistic approach.

Vocal performers are athletes of the voice. Voicing is their sport. This includes singers, actors, voice actors, audiobook narrators, public speakers, and anyone else that uses their voice for a living.