(Is the class full? Fear not! Sign up on the waitlist. There are always last minute cancellations -luck is on your side!)
If you have taken this or a similar class in the past, you will be removed from the RSVP list. This is to ensure equal exposure to all members of the VOL community.
This workshop, lead by world class and award-winning actor Johnny Heller, will cover the following topics in the area of commercial VO:
How to approach copy.
How to break it down - operative words and copy points.
Selling vs. acting choices.
Expectations - yours and theirs!
Job opportunities.
Role of the agent.
Role of the Casting Director.
Home Studios.
Members are encouraged to come prepared to read and with questions for the instructor.
ABOUT YOUR INSTRUCTOR:
Johnny Heller is an award winning actor and teacher with over 30 years of experience in the industry in voice over, stage, television and stand up comedy. He has narrated nearly 600 titles for adults, young adults and children - working in almost every genre. Heller is a 2005 and 2009 Audie Award Winner, a double nominee in 2015, a 2014 Nominee for Best Male Narrator, a double nominee in 2012 and was named a Best Voice of 2008 - 2011, 2014, 2015 and a Publishers Weekly Listen Up Award Winner 2008-2013. A winner of over 25 Earphone Awards, Audiofile Magazine named Heller one of the top 50 voices of the 20th Century.
He has voiced hundreds of commercials from soups to amusement parks, banks to burgers and sports teams to computer services. Heller has worked in commercial markets in the Midwest and both coasts and is currently represented by Abrams Artists in New York, VTP on the east coast and Midwest and AB2Talent on the west coast.
Johnny currently coaches actors in audiobook narration and commercial VO through Edge Studio in New York.
