Today David Pendleton shares his path to becoming a professional ventriloquist.
Video Transcript:
What made you decide to go into it (ventriloquism) full-time? What were you doing right prior to that, and how did you make the transition?
You know, everybody has their own kind of career path and how they find themselves landing on this little career. When I was in college, I got involved with a ministry—Campus Crusade for Christ. It was really there that I started to grow spiritually in ways that I hadn’t really developed growing up.
I decided to go into full-time ministry with Campus Crusade right out of college. Now, in the midst of that, of course, I was working at Kings Island when I was not in school—in other words, during the summer season. It was kind of known, certainly by people who knew me, that this was something that I did.
While working in campus ministry, I was assigned to a particular campus. There were people who would contact me and say, “Hey, this thing that you do—this ventriloquist act—are you available to come and do a show on our campus?” Along the way, I’d also made contacts with business owners who knew I had an act, and they would call me to perform for their company functions.
So I was doing that kind of on the side. But as the calls started coming in more and more frequently, I realized, “Hey, you know what, this could sort of take over what I’m doing.” For several years it was both—trying to balance my schedule and commitments working in campus ministry, while also making myself available to respond to calls to do my act.
I think, like a lot of people who decide to go full-time, what happens is that it just eventually takes over. Or you decide, “Okay, I can actually take this step and do that full-time.” That’s how it happened for me.
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