About

Van Barr Jr. is an African American actor based in Dallas Texas with a background in improv, audio mixing, and remote recording. Van began his voice-over journey in Aomori Japan while serving in the active-duty military. Van has worked on shows airing on Cartoon Network as well as major streaming platforms such as Crunchyroll, Funimation, and Hulu.
Training
Mary Elizabeth McGlynn – Acting Workshop
Joel McDonald – Intermediate Auditioning
Chris Rager – ADR, Video Game Workshop
Anthony Bowling – Acting Workshop
Karen Strassman – Acting Workshop
Richard Horvitz – Acting Workshop
Kyle Phillips – Acting, ADR Workshop
J. Michael Tatum – Acting Workshop
Crispin Freeman – Acting Workshop
Richard Epcar – Acting Workshop
Tyler Walker – ADR lessons
Mami Okada – Anime Workshop
Morgan Berry – Acting Lessons
Tony Oliver – ADR Workshop
Dorah Fine – ADR Workshop
Jason Lord – ADR Lessons
John Bailey – Promo Workshop
Barbara Niles – Commercial Workshop
Edge Studios – Script Analysis Workshop
Craig Lee Thomas – Commercial Workshop
Arrica Rose – Singing and Vocal Control Lessons
Chris Wells – Studio Gokko– Japan’s first school dedicated to short and long-form improvisation
Steve Blum – Voice Over Class with guest speakers: Phil Lamarr, Tom Kenny, Matthew Mercer, Nolan North, Cree Summer, LeVar Burton, Andrea Toyias, Eric Bauza, Roger Craig Smith, Maurice LaMarche, Will Friedle, Fred Tatasciore, Andrea Romano, Maile Flanagan, Tom Kane, Kari Walhgren, Charlie Adler, Rob Paulsen, Dee Bradley Baker, Eliza Jane Schneider, Bob Bergen, Larry Riess, Jennifer Hale
Animation
Title | Role | Studio |
The World Ends With You: The Animation | Beat | Funimation |
Attack On Titan | Additional Voices | Funimation |
One Piece | Additional Voices | Funimation |
Orient | Lookout Bushi, Additional Voices | Bangzoom |
Love After World Domination | Additional Voices | Crunchyroll |
Skeleton Knight In Another World | Additional Voices | Crunchyroll |
Lil Wild | Gerard The Gerbil | Stereo Couture |
The Acorn Princess | Beetle | Tough Nut Studios |
Hey Hugo! Episode 6 | Mister Make | Jupey Krusho |
Faith Mcgrace (Pre-Production) | Lord Villihiem | Sterling Cartoons |
D-Spirits (Pre-Production) | Damian, Nephil, Froggy, Kowa, Tox | Sterling Cartoons |
Gadzooks And The Cryptoid Kids (Pre-Production) | Pan | FnF Studio |
Party Animal (Pre-Production) | Perry | Kris Yim |
Video Games
Title | Role | Developer |
Edge Of Eternity | Derek, Verleh | Studio Midgar |
Samurai Zero | Ryder | Neo Interactive |
Rush Attack | Master Kibwe | Sunny Box Studios |
Sands of Aura | Auckkerman | Chashu Entertainment |
Battlegrounds: Ascension (Mobile) | Announcer | Flash Forward Games |
Hint | Hex | HexaNeph Games |
Fallen Angel | Abdiel | Matrioshka |
Iragon (VR) | Additional Voices | Repulse |
Lillith Odyssey | Additional Voices | Jun & Pat |
Mr. Maze | Additional Voices | Studio 7 |
Equipment
Microphone – Neumann TLM 103
Interface – Mix Pre 3 – II
Pre-amp – Cranborne Audio Camden EC1
ADR Monitor
Isolation Booth
High-Speed Internet
Digital Audio Workstation – Reaper
Radial Engineering JS2 Passive Microphone Splitter
Remote Programs – Source Connect, Zoom, Teams, ipDTL