Synopsis
Learn from "Accent Man" Andrew Frankel what makes some accents cringey, and others absolutely brilliant and how you can make sure yours are not just believable, but compelling to casting directors and audiences alike so that you can incorporate them into your own auditions and performances with confidence.
Format
This session will be a lecture and a demonstration with a Q&A. Participants will not read for the instructor.
Instructor Bio
“Accent Man” Andrew Frankel is the voice actor casting directors call for sessions that require multiple believable and starkly different characters. Through a career spanning major studio animation, games, radio, promo, dubbing and commercial work, he’s learned where, when, and how much of an accent to use in any given session or audition.
Having voiced mascots for Frigo String Cheese, Popeye’s Chicken, Hersheys, recurring characters on the HBO Max series Jellystone, Netflix’s Ranma 1/2 and Nickelodeon’s Rock Paper Scissors, as well as countless monsters, soldiers, and villains in video games, he’s come to understand that variety isn’t just the spice of life, it’s how working actors keep working.
As a coach to actors and voice actors of all ages, Andrew creates a playful environment and an intriguing perspective to character acting that inevitably leads to students realizing, learning how to ‘do an accent’ is just the first step.
