SYNOPSIS
We will explore the techniques, tools and acting craft of bringing one's self to voiceover copy in a fun and informative way. Commercials - Animation - Video Games.
Today they are looking for "real" kids!
Let's find out your voiceover signature in this crazy and wonderful world of voiceover - and have fun doing it.
30 year voiceover veteran Lynnanne Zager will provide young actors an overview of commercial voiceover auditions and instruct them on how to use their acting chops to stand out.
In the Don LaFontaine Voiceover Lab and our state-of-the-art recording studio, young actors will record copy while Lynnanne offers direction, insight and coaching.
REQUIREMENTS
This is a session for young performers ages 9 to 17 years old.. A parent or guardian must drop-off and pick-up participants promptly. This session is 1.5 hours in length and all participants must stay for the duration. Parents will not be allowed to remain in the studio during the class time, but parents will have the opportunity to attend other on-site activities in the Meryl Streep Center for Performing Artists.
Performers that secure an RSVP seat for this class are not eligible to attend Lynnanne's 10:30 AM class.
If you would like to be considered for an auditor seat (not a reader, but present in the class and learning), add your name to the Waitlist. We will notify actors of their status, as the class nears.
If parents and young performers want to save the reads they perform during the class, please bring a USB-A flash drive with at least 1 GB of space available.
INSTRUCTOR BIO
Lynnanne Zager
Lynnanne Zager is one of the industry’s most respected voice actors, teachers and casting directors. She has cast and directed ADR voices in numerous films. How to Train Your Dragon, Dreamworks’ The Wild Robot as well as Kung Fu Panda 4, Orion and the Dark, SpongeBob Squarepants Sponge on the Run, Dreamworks' The Boss Baby movies, Captain Underpants, Penguins of Madagascar, Mr. Peabody and Sherman, The Book of Life; 20th Century Fox and Sony Pictures Animation Hotel Transylvania 2.
Lynnanne is extremely proud to be the Narrator of Investigation Discovery's Deadly Women for 14 seasons, Narration in the Avatar movies and of her computer voices such as Dharma in LOST, numerous Star Trek movies, Men in Black 3, Beverly Hills Cop 3, Doom Patrol, Criminal Minds and the GPS voice in The Office driving them into the lake - to name just a few!
She is proud to be a master teacher at NYU Tisch School of the Arts’ Graduate Acting program and mentoring young voiceover actors at the SAG-AFTRA Foundation’s Don La Fontaine VO Lab in Los Angeles and the EIF VO Lab in New York City.