The Learning Annex

Description

Joan Baker, and a panel of experts, will give you the inside scoop on how to launch and maintain a successful voice-over career.

Becoming a successful voiceover actor isn’t just about having a standout voice, or inside connections, or even raw determination. Becoming a success in this highly competitive business is also about the skill and talent of interpreting words through a very specialized craft.

For almost everyone that means training. With the right training under your belt, the journey moves into learning the etiquette of voiceover as a business, the tools of the trade, the players and the process. Drawing from firsthand accounts of the industry’s top voice-over talents – Joan and company will give you the inside scoop on how they climbed the ranks to voice-over success and how you can too including:

- Training – What to avoid and where to train
- The power of the demo – What to include (and exclude) in your all important “calling card”
- Partnering with an agent
- Finding Your Voice/Identifying your niche
- The Business of You/Marketing
- Unions – what you need to know
- And much more

Joining Joan Baker will be special guests:
- Katie McGrath, Voice over agent, Innovative Artists
- Rudy Gaskins, Executive Creative Director, Push Creative Advertising
- Sherri Hodes, Casting Director, TV & Radio commercials
- Johnna Gottlieb, Education & Preparation, Professor NYU “Beyond the Booth”
- Valerie Smaldone, Voiceover Actor (Broadway on Broadway)
- Steve Zirnkilton, Voiceover Actor (Law & Order franchise)

Bonus: Six lucky participants get a chance to do a live audition and have the Industry Panel coach you on your script readings.

Joan Baker is a voiceover actor, teacher, who has narrated for the permanent display of the William Jefferson Clinton Presidential Library and the national ad campaign for the Muhammad Ali Center. Other clients include ESPN, ABC News, NBC, SHOWTIME, HBO, Imus in the Morning, Oprah.com, Sony Music, American Express, ABC Sports and the Olympic Games. She has coached the late Johnnie Cochran and HLN’s Nancy Grace, and numerous Fortune 500 CEOs and executives. Joan is the author of Secrets of Voice-Over Success: Top Voice-Over Actors reveal How They Did It.