Synopsis
Ready for some direct re-direction on your commercial reads? Join industry powerhouse Hugh P. Klitzke for a fast-paced, fun workshop!
This session will begin with a brief lecture where Hugh will share from his experience common issues that crop up repeatedly for actors in commercial reads. Next, Hugh will play a random selection of audition MP3s submitted by participants before class time. He will critique the submitted audition, offer the actor some direct re-direction and give them a chance to do a live re-read incorporating his advice. Feedback will be encouraging, supportive and also (as the name suggests!) very direct. The session will conclude with a Q&A.
Format
Participants will receive a packet of commercial audition copy a few days before class.
Participants will be asked to choose one piece of copy and given submission instructions.
MP3s will be randomly selected during class time.
Unfortunately, due to time constraints, not every audition submitted is guaranteed feedback.
Participation selection will happen randomly during class so members will not know beforehand if their submission will be used during class time.
Members also have the option to attend class to listen and learn without submitting an MP3.
INSTRUCTOR BIO
Hugh P. Klitzke is a conversational voiceover coach and commercial demo producer in New York City. He brings 15 years of experience as Booth Director at Buchwald NYC to voiceover workshops, lectures, private coaching and demo production. Directing and coaching voiceover talent at every level, Hugh has worked with Emmy, Grammy, Tony, Reed and SOVAS winners, Audible Narrator Hall of Famers, the curious and the work-a-day VO hustlers. And to date, Hugh has directed over 125,000 auditions and counting.
Since going solo, Hugh released The ConversationalVO Open Studio - a one of a kind workshop in voiceover coaching. Thousands of attendees - voice actors, podcasters, audio producers, engineers, talent managers and agents all come to see Hugh coach voiceover talent live on Zoom.
Hugh was nominated for Best Commercial Demo Production Female at OneVoice, has presented at NEVO and VO Atlanta, is on the organizing committee for the WOVO UNconference and will present at the MAVO Conference in November 2025.
Hugh has also been the head of sound for Penn & 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.
