Andrea Toyias
Senior Casting & Voice Director, Self / formerly Blizzard Entertainment
Andrea Toyias is listed as Senior Casting & Voice Director, Self / formerly Blizzard Entertainment. Andrea is scheduled to speak at GDC Festival of Gaming 2027 on 1 March 2027.
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About
Andrea Toyias is a veteran Casting and Voice Director whose career has been spent at the intersection of performance, storytelling and games. She founded the voice-over department at Blizzard Entertainment and spent 20 years overseeing casting and voice direction across some of the company's most celebrated franchises, including World of Warcraft, Diablo, Overwatch, StarCraft, and Hearthstone. During her two decades at Blizzard, Andrea helped build the studio's VO pipeline from the ground up, collaborating with creative teams and performers to populate worlds with thousands of characters—from legendary heroes and terrifying villains to the smallest NPC with only a handful of lines. Known for bringing energy, curiosity and a deep love of actors into the recording room, Andrea has spent thousands of hours behind the glass directing performances and helping creative teams discover possibilities they may not have known were on the page. Today, she brings that experience to the broader game