![]() ![]() I want people to feel they didn’t waste their time or money. It’s truly gratifying when the writer is pleased with how I’ve performed their work and wonderful to hear from the audience about how much my work has touched their lives. ![]() Anthony: Being one of the longest running actors on NoSleep, what are some of your favorite memories of your time with NoSleep? Nikolle: All through these years, the constant highlight is the reaction to my work by the writers and the listeners. Aside from performing in the stories, I have also done some writing and acting for the ads. I wasn’t aware of NoSleep until he contacted me. Were you aware of NoSleep when you were contacted? How did you become a part of the show? Aside from voice acting for the show, what other roles do you have as a part of the NoSleep team? Nikolle: David discovered me on the horror podcast Tales to Terrify and invited me to join NoSleep. Anthony: You’ve been with the show since season 2! It’s my understanding that David Cummings discovered you. Aside from NoSleep, I’ve become a regular narrator on The Disturbed Podcast, and have additionally performed roles or narrations in: The Oyster, Liberty, Vast, Sirenicide, Calling the Darkness, Hearing the Haunted, Tales To Terrify, StarShipSofa, Far-Fetched Fables, Congeria, Manor House, and Crime City Central. I would have to credit Larry with being the reason I wound up performing in all the other podcasts since. I benefited greatly from his kindness and encouragement. He was very supportive of my acting and writing and invited me to narrate for them and also to submit a story of my own, which I narrated for the show. I hosted my own podcast for a while doing classic literature and was found online by the horror writer and actor Lawrence Santoro (the original host of Tales to Terrify) who sadly passed away some years ago. ![]() That said, can you tell us about your roles as a voice actor before you joined NoSleep? How about what you’ve got going on outside of NoSleep? Nikolle: Before I got involved with podcasts such as NoSleep, I did voice work for corporate e-learning, radio ad, film, computer game, and audiobooks. Anthony: You’ve done a lot of voice acting. I later focused on voice acting and writing. I later went to a performing arts high school as a theatre major for my senior year and then pursued theatre studies at the university level including stage acting, playwriting, directing, etc., and continued with it after graduating for a time. I would read or perform at school assemblies and was in the drama club. I was the kid the teachers called on to read out loud in class. Anthony: Can you tell us a bit about yourself before we dig this? For starters, who are you, and where you’re from? You have a background in theatre, right? Nikolle: I’m from Massachusetts and I am creative by nature. You know, listeners will often talk about how the podcast helps them get through tough times, but it also helps the creators too, I think–to have a project to focus on and just slip away into another world and cast your worries aside. We’re all vaccinated now, so I feel safer than I did beforehand with a kind of cautious optimism looking forward. The pandemic kind of felt like navigating a minefield at times. My mother has stage 4 breast cancer and my father has stage 5 kidney disease, so it’s been a challenge for a number of years already. The main concern I had was caring for my elderly parents and protecting them from the virus. The pandemic has been a stressful time for everyone, of course. It’s a privilege to be counted among your favorites. I’m always happy to hear when someone enjoys my work. It’s a pleasure to be invited to join your interview series. How have these past couple of years been for you? Nikolle: Thank you, Anthony. When I’m asked who my favorite voice actors are, it’s hard just to choose a few because everyone is so extremely talented, and you’re up there with my favorites. I can’t thank her enough for the amazing and detailed answers given below so let’s hand it over to Nikolle!Īnthony: Nikolle, it’s truly an honor to have you with us for our NoSleep series of interviews. We talk about her time on the show and her background in all facets of her acting career from theatre to voice work for various publications. Having been with the show since season 2 totaling and nearly 400 stories, Nikolle lends her voice to provide an array of characters and narration styles. Today, we continue our NoSleep Podcast family of interviews with none other than one of NoSleep’s longest-running actors, Nikolle Doolin!
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