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July 31, 2007

Deborah Sale Butler : Sounding Clean While Speaking Naturally

Join Voice Over Expert Deborah Sale Butler as she teaches you about "Sounding Clean While Speaking Naturally". Deborah enlightens us on how to become aware of your speech, discover how it affects your voice over career, and learn how to acquire a range of speech skills.

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Deborah Sale Butler, Voice Actor, Speech Coach, Dialect Coach, Dialects, Dialect Reduction, Los Angeles.

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Voice Over Expert Deborah Sale Butler

Deborah Sale ButlerDeborah Sale Butler has been a voice-actor and a voice/speech/dialect coach for over 20 years. She has taught voice and speech at The Pittsburgh Playhouse School, The Second City Training Center in Chicago, The American Academy of Dramatic Arts (LA) and The Stella Adler Academy of Acting in Hollywood. She has coached students from around the country and around the world in speech and accent reduction and now coaches privately through her own company, ACT WITH YOUR VOICE in Los Angeles. She coaches actors in person or over the phone on a per-project or ongoing basis. Her approach is to teach students to become aware of their own speech in order to express their inner voice.

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July 24, 2007

Marc Graue : How To Make an A-List Voice Over Demo

Join Voice Over Expert Marc Graue as he shares "How To Make an A-List Demo". Find out what happens behind closed studio doors and get the cold hard facts on what matters, what doesn't and how to grab the attention of prospective clients.

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Marc Graue, Burbank, Voice Over Studios, Fixinthemix.com, A-List, Voice Over Demos, Voices.com.

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Marc Graue Voice Over Recording Studios

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Voice Over Expert Marc Graue

Marc GraueMarc Graue is the owner of the legendary Marc Graue Voice Over Studios, a Burbank California landmark for more than 25 years. His client list reads like a who’s who of the voice over business including the Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon, HBO, Disney, Warner Bros., Dreamworks, Showtime, MTV, Discovery Channel, ABC, CBS, NBC, HGTV, Activision, Electronic Arts, THQ and many more can be found in the studios daily. As a producer, Marc’s voice over demo clients include: EG Daily (Rugrats / Babe), Yeardley Smith (The Simpsons), John Dimaggio (Futurama / Kim Possible), Randy Thomas (Academy Awards / Entertainment Tonight), Brian Baumgartner (The Office) and 100’s more!

As a voice over artist Marc has been represented by William-Morris in Beverly Hills for the last 12 years and can be heard on Avatar-The Last Air Bender, Veggie Tales, Code Name: Kids Next Door, Warcraft, Spiderman 3 the Video Game, Ratchett & Clank, GUN, Gothic 3 and on countless trailers and promos.

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Marc Graue Voice Over Studios, Burbank
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July 17, 2007

Joan Baker : The Myth of Rejection

Join Voice Over Expert Joan Baker with guest Rudy Gaskins as they discuss "The Myth of Rejection". Discover a new philosophy on how you can regard auditions, react positively to rejection, and embrace each audition as a learning experience and opportunity for growth.

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Joan Baker, Myth of Rejection, The Voice Over Master Immersion Class, Learning Annex, Rudy Gaskins, Push Creative, Secrets of Voiceover Success, Don LaFontaine, NYC.

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Secrets of Voiceover Success Book

Your Instructor this week:

Voice Over Expert Joan Baker

Joan BakerJoan Baker is a sound to be reckoned with as one of New York’s premier voice-over actors and creator of the wildly successful “Make Millions With Your Voice” through the Learning Annex, the ongoing Immersion Class Workshops and for the first time ever Directing & Working with Voice-over Talent at the Promax/BDA TV Conference 2007 was introduced to producers, writers, TV station managers and VO agents to a sell out crowd. Joan is also the author of “SECRETS OF VOICEOVER SUCCESS”, a compelling collection of stories about the top voice-over actors in the industry, including the one and only, Don LaFontaine and many more. All proceeds benefit the Alzheimer’s Foundation.

Clients include ESPN, Showtime, Chase Bank, American Express, ABC News and Sports, Lifetime, Lexus, SPIKE TV and Disney (she positively ROARED for the Lion King’s national radio campaign!). Other credits include voiceover for HBO Family, WNBC, Nickelodeon, Delta Airlines, Fox 5, NBA Entertainment, NICK at NITE, Imus in the Morning, the ABC Super Sign in Times Square and countless more. Joan’s extraordinary talent has generated the spotlight with feature articles in the Hollywood Reporter, Back Stage, Media Week, ADWEEK and Broadcasting & Cable to mention a few.

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July 10, 2007

Bettye Zoller : Making the Most of Your Message

Join Voice Over Expert Bettye Zoller as she discusses "Making the Most of Your Message". Bettye reminds us that the voice over biz is about more than just having a great voice, it's about branding, marketing and serving your clients.

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Bettye Zoller, VoicesVoices.com, Elevator Speech, Self-Promotion, Sales, Marketing, Voices.com.

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VoicesVoices.com
Bettye Zoller Voices.com Website

Your Instructor this week:

Voice Over Expert Bettye Zoller

Bettye Zoller34 years as a respected university and private educator in voice, speech, theatre, radio-TV, and voiceover techniques along with her award-winning career in voiceovers and jingles has won Bettye Zoller an international reputation that brings clients and students to her workshops and to work in her Dallas recording studio (she's an accomplished audio engineer/producer) from all over the globe! She is educated through the doctorate (from Missouri University, University of Texas at Dallas, University of North Texas) with faculty positions in the past at Southern Methodist University, University of Texas at Arlington, Dallas County Colleges. She has also studied with famed NYC acting coach Uta Hagen, in Chicago at the "Second City School" and her career began long ago at Metro Goldwyn Mayer's Hollywood studio school (as a child performer signed to MGM).

Her voiceover credits number in the many hundreds (she's never counted!) and range from voiceovers and jingles for national TV commercials to audio books to cartoons, from toys to podcasts to anime. You've heard her for decades worldwide! Clients have included American Airlines,Pepsi, Visa, Lifetime TV Channel, The Weather Channel, Pace Picante Sauce, Lionel Trains, Texas Instruments Talking Toys, Seven Seas Dressings, Pedialyte Vitamins, promos for ABC, NBC, and BBC America. She is a Simon and Schuster audio book author, narrator, and producer. She has won ADDYS, CLIOS, GOLDEN RADIOS, and AUDIE awards over the years. She is the author of eleven audio titles sold worldwide and continues to produce new titles annually. She is known for teaching voiceover techniques including audio book narration and production, and her BUSINESS OF VOICEOVERS workshops are legendary with students who credit her with starting them in their lucrative voiceover careers!

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She began as a singer and actor, opening act for the legend, Tony Bennett, touring America with her show group and releasing hit records as an RCA artist and songwriter produced by the late Chet Atkins. Voiceovers entered her life by accident when another jingle singer mentioned her work in the voiceover area. The rest is history! She served as Creative Director of several major production houses in the past, which she credits with "making me the audio engineer and producer that I am today. I sat beside some of the greatest audio pros in our business and learned from them." Now, her Dallas recording studio is constantly busy cranking out voiceover demos, commercial projects, audio books, and more! "I'm like the shoemaker's daughter...some days I can't find a minute to voice the projects I'm supposed to do myself...I'm wall-to-wall with studio clients! But I love it."

She continues to teach "mass media singers" in her Dallas studio and periodically gives "studio singing workshops" too. "I can't let singing go away...it was my total life and I'm an excellent coach who knows the business!" But her voiceover career has really taken "over" full time in the past decade or so. "Voiceovers know no age and that's a big plus. Singing tends to favor the very young...been there, done that."

"The 'Internet revolution' like this excellent resource, Voices.com, is what's new, what's fresh, and what's happening! Voiceover work worldwide is better than ever before and growing exponentially!" We're fortunate to be able to make this kind of fabulous money without ever leaving home (except when I travel to teach elsewhere by invitation!).

"Always check out my homepage on my website VoicesVoices.com to see where and when I'm teaching. And if you want to come to Dallas to work with me, I always help with travel facts and sometimes even have my staff pick you up at your hotel or whatever we can do to ease your travel."

With her husband, a professional bassist with major music credits worldwide, and her Chow dog "Sammy," she loves travel and teaching in other cities. "I love the new sights, meeting new people, learning new things." Her two adult sons live in NYC and Switzerland with great careers in journalism and computers. She has three young grandchildren."They still are babies, but I'm going to try to get them into showbiz... it's my life."

She's teaching workshops in Dallas July 21-28. Visit her site for details. She's in Denver August 3-10. She teaches several university guest professor appointments next Fall and will do workshops again in Dallas and elsewhere. She's always happy to speak with you via phone or email!

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July 3, 2007

Debbie Munro : Tips and Tricks for Auditioning

Join Voice Over Expert Debbie Munro as she explores "Tips and Tricks for Auditioning". Debbie encourages you to use each audition as an opportunity and to have fun while you practice.

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Debbie Munro, Deb Munro, DebsVoice.com, Auditions, Tips and Tricks, MP3s, Voices.com.

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Debbie Munro : Tips and Tricks for Auditioning

Your Instructor this week:

Voice Over Expert Debbie Munro

Debbie MunroBy employing over a dozen years wisdom in voicing and acting, Debbie Munro puts her talents to work to meet the challenging demands of today's fast paced voice market. Tired of not receiving constructive feed back on how to improve her craft, Debbie set out to make a difference for actors by creating, The MIC & ME Workshop Series. Keeping focused on the Global Freelance market, Debbie has combined her extensive Voice Over, Acting and Off Camera training into a series of practical, exciting workshops that will take you to that next step, no matter what your level.

Fueled by experience, talent, and unbridled enthusiasm for doing what she loves to do best - getting behind a microphone and speaking her heart out, Debbie is proud to share her insights, techniques and secrets with you. She works very hard to create courses that shed an honest look into the world of voice acting allowing you to work at your own pace, know if this is the industry for you and how to keep working. Her passion alone will engage you and give you the encouragement you need. Learn more at DebsVoice.com

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By employing over a dozen years wisdom in voicing and acting, Debbie puts her talents to work to meet the challenging demands of today's fast paced voice market. Tired of not hearing truthful critiques in various workshops, Debbie ventured to begin teaching the wonderful world of voice. Not only will she impress with unmatched quality and a lightning quick turnaround, she can offer a multitude of reads ranging from the refreshingly direct to the keenly sublime. From soft to hard, corporate to down-home comfortable and everything in between, Debbie spices up your production with flawless vocal acrobatics, unforgettable characters, and her specialty… a sultry read that will positively twist your knickers. Debbie Munro does it all.

With over 12 years combined experience, 7 years training in acting and broadcasting and 5 years in animation, Debbie Munro is able to offer a unique perspective into the Voice-Over industry. Debbie is passion plus! She loves what she does and can’t wait to share the invaluable information that has been taught to her. Debbie is quickly becoming one of the top voice over instructors in Canada.

Working internationally as a full-time voice performer, Debbie is based in the Edmonton area. Some of her credits include the voice of “Mai” in the cartoon DragonBall © (YTV), Signature voice of roving reporter, “Karla Karumba” in the international animation series Benjamin Blumchen ©, Video games for companies like Bioware, broadcast voice for several stations including WBTV 38, KLOS, A-Channel, Shaw, Global and many more. Clients such as the U.S. Coast Guard, Canada Post, Michelin, Subway, Florida Hospitals, Alberta Dairy, Booster Juice and many more. Debbie puts her talents to work to meet the challenging demands of today's fast paced voice market.

Debbie owns and operates her own studio and production company “Chanti Productions”. Debbie has formed several informative and intense workshops to help you excel in the industry of voice.

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