Workshop

Vocal Characteristic Mechanics Workshop

This workshop is for voice actors at any level in any genre who realize they can book more frequently by having greater vocal capabilities and control that help them:

  1. Be the right match for a broader range of genres, styles, and personalities.
  2. Deliver more auditions, more often that are closer to the specific nuances requested in the performance specs.

Vocal
Characteristic
Mechanics
Workshop

Vocal
Characteristic
Mechanics
Workshop

This workshop is for voice actors at any level in any genre who realize they’ll book more frequently by having greater vocal capabilities and control that help them:

  1. Be the right match for a broader range of genres, styles, and personalities.
  2. Deliver more auditions, more often that are closer to the specific nuances requested in the performance specs.

The Big Picture

The workshop offers a powerful perspective that can open possibilities for a new, promising way forward in your career.  To be clear, this is not about great acting, which is unquestionably the single most important skill you need to possess.  This is about developing a nuanced understanding and practice of your vocal mechanisms to build a richer toolbox of vocal characteristics you can draw on in support of your acting choices.

We start with a fresh shift in perspective that helps free you from thoughts that may be limiting your perception of what’s possible. This includes eliminating your concept of having a “natural voice.”  You begin to see your collection of vocal mechanisms as something similar to a very flexible musical instrument that you may play any way you choose. We also redefine “character” as “characteristics,” with which an actor should be enriching every performance– in even the most natural and realistic of scripts.
Next, we focus on vocal anatomy and provide hands-on guidance to access, explore and fine-tune the characteristics of each of one’s vocal mechanisms. It teaches how to combine layers of characteristics to instantly portray– or at least support– many aspects requested in the audition specs. And we explore a technique to dial-in just the right amount of each vocal characteristic to meet the level of realism expected.
Thus, everyone can learn to play their vocal instrument in new ways that give them broader and more nuanced expression. They can adopt a process that makes it easy to add new characteristics to their vocal toolbox throughout their career. They can control the use of their vocal options with degrees of subtlety to mold a new “natural” sound for every genre and script.

Credentials

Throughout my 40-year voice acting career, I have adopted a personal method for constantly expanding my vocal toolbox, which now comprises a vast range of vocal characteristics. These are the building blocks I use in combinations to create hundreds of highly engaging, multi-layered and nuanced characters.  I’ve documented my personal method to create easy to follow processes and exercises, which any voice actor can utilize for ongoing exploration and expansion of their own vocal toolbox. I truly believe that you can significantly broaden your vocal range with continued attention on your vocal mechanisms.

The Big Picture

The workshop offers a powerful perspective that can open possibilities for a new, promising way forward in your career.  To be clear, this is not about great acting, which is unquestionably the single most important skill you need to possess.  This is about developing a nuanced understanding and practice of your vocal mechanisms to build a richer toolbox of vocal characteristics you can draw on in support of your acting choices.

We start with a fresh shift in perspective that helps free you from thoughts that may be limiting your perception of what’s possible. This includes eliminating your concept of having a “natural voice.”  You begin to see your collection of vocal mechanisms as something similar to a very flexible musical instrument that you may play any way you choose. We also redefine “character” as “characteristics,” with which an actor should be enriching every performance– in even the most natural and realistic of scripts.
Next, we focus on vocal anatomy and provide hands-on guidance to access, explore and fine-tune the characteristics of each of one’s vocal mechanisms. It teaches how to combine layers of characteristics to instantly portray– or at least support– many aspects requested in the audition specs. And we explore a technique to dial-in just the right amount of each vocal characteristic to meet the level of realism expected.
Thus, everyone can learn to play their vocal instrument in new ways that give them broader and more nuanced expression. They can adopt a process that makes it easy to add new characteristics to their vocal toolbox throughout their career. They can control the use of their vocal options with degrees of subtlety to mold a new “natural” sound for every genre and script.

Credentials

Throughout my 40-year voice acting career, I have adopted a personal method for constantly expanding my vocal toolbox, which now comprises a vast range of vocal characteristics. These are the building blocks I use in combinations to create hundreds of highly engaging, multi-layered and nuanced characters.  I’ve documented my personal method to create easy to follow processes and exercises, which any voice actor can utilize for ongoing exploration and expansion of their own vocal toolbox. I truly believe that you can significantly broaden your vocal range with continued attention on your vocal mechanisms.

What's Included

  • Warm-up exercises, which focus on preparing you for workshop objectives
  • A new perspective with which you can approach every role in every script
  • Identification of all vocal mechanisms and their potential characteristics
  • Simple, clearly defined processes to access, explore and fine-tune characteristics
  • Activities and exercises designed to make it easy to encourage ongoing commitment
  • Documentation of everything you've learned to help you create new regular, ongoing practices

PLUS! Attend a free follow-up workout to create support for your practice and momentum.

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Benefits for Every Genre

Everyone can benefit from an expanded characteristic toolbox.

  • Audio book VAs can provide more variation for a larger number of story characters.
  • Commercial and Promo VAs can dial in subtle characteristics that make reads stand out, while more closely meeting performance specs
  • Narration, eLearning, and Corporate VAs can deliver more engaging and stylistically on-target reads.
  • Animation and Game VAs will expand their abilities to create unlimited characters within the stylistic requirements of the program.
  • Voice Match artists will receive the perfect set of processes to break down and emulate others' vocal characteristics.

Benefits for All Levels

This workshop provides tools that work completely independent of one's level of experience, talent, skill or areas of work.  So both beginners and seasoned pros can benefit regardless of genre.
  • Regularly working, full-time VAs can establish or broaden their vocal toolbox to book more jobs that were previously not in their typical vocal range.
  • VAs with strong vocal toolboxes can use workshop processes to speed up their ability to add new characteristics to their repertoire.
  • Beginners can begin their VA journey with a solid awareness of their personal vocal mechanisms as a physical and creative basis for their careers.
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The Next Workshop, Week of June 2nd

3-hour Zoom workshop, including 1 FREE follow-up workout

No more than 6 participants per workshop, so everyone gets personal attention

Cost of $200 payable with registration; details sent via email

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