Virtual: Voice Acting vs "Real" Acting with Hugh P. Klitzke

This program is FULL

Synopsis
Many actors struggle with making the leap to commercial voiceover work. Why? Commercial auditions are often heavy with confusing specs or have no context or circumstances to engage with. Join industry veteran Hugh P. Klitzke for a workshop that focuses on how to handle this challenge of extremes. Understanding how to navigate these two circumstances will help you deliver authentic commercial audition reads that fly off the page… and book work!

A few days before class every participant will be sent a package of copy and invited to submit an MP3. On the day of class Hugh will begin with a brief lecture and then randomly select MP3 submissions to play. He will offer an honest critique and an opportunity for a live redirect.

PLEASE BE ADVISED: Not every MP3 submitted is guaranteed a listen. Selections will be made randomly during class time and members will not be alerted before class begins as to whether their MP3 was selected. Members are NOT required to submit an MP3 to attend class. Members are invited to attend to watch, listen and ask questions.

Instructor Bio

Hugh P. Klitzke

Hugh P. Klitzke is a voiceover coach, director and producer in New York City. He teaches the conversational read, self-direction, the commercial read, directs auditions and produces demos (amongst other things). For nearly fifteen years Hugh was the Voiceover Studio Manager at Buchwald, New York, directing auditions for every kind of voiceover. To date, Hugh has directed over 125,000 auditions and counting.

In 2023, Hugh was nominated for Best Female Commercial Demo Production at OneVoice, spoke at WOVO, critiqued at NEVO, taught many workshops for the SAG /AFTRA Foundation and he will present at VO Atlanta in 2024. While teaching classes, private coaching and lecturing, Hugh is writing two books and runs VOnow.CO with Debbie Irwin.

Hugh has also been the head of sound for Penn and Teller, an Equity Stage Manager, a producer at the Galapagos Art Space in Brooklyn (now Detroit), an award winning composer and lyricist for theater, film and digital media, a music theory lecturer at SUNY Purchase, assistant to a Baroque trumpet scholar, a certified K-12 music teacher and two time marathon finisher.