Katlego Tsatsi

Early school days:

Becoming a voice actor wasn’t a linear process for me, nor was it an obvious destination for my life.

My “stage debut” was presenting flowers to a homecoming queen candidate at our hometown university. I think I was in first grade. In second grade, I was cast as the title role in the musical “Oliver” at my school. I had a good singing voice and continued doing plays and musicals at my school, at the local university and at the local dinner theater up through high school.

I liked being in front of an audience and I liked the “voluntary family” of the stage. Actors as a group were friendly and it was fun making a show together.

Reading lots of sci-fi, fantasy and horror:

I was an enthusiastic reader of sci-fi and fantasy as a kid. My first chapter book was Jules Verne’s “Journey to the Center of the Earth,” which I read in fourth grade. This was followed by a lot of classic sci-fi/fantasy authors, including Clarke, Asimov, Wells, Heinlein, Bradbury.