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Online Workout Group
Attend this online workout group, where you'll be given a "mystery script" and an opportunity to develop characters and perform them in front of your peers--all in 60 minutes! (Los Angeles time zone)
Monday, May 6, 2024
11:00AM - 12:00M PST (Set your time zone during registration)
Via Zoom
Members: Free
Non-Members: $30
AUDIOTS: Auditions with re-directs
Actors will receive scripts the day before, and they will choose one and record an audition, just as they would an actual gig. In session, each audition will be analyzed and re-directed by a Director, with the actor reading live in front of the group.
Limited to the first 6 people
Thursday, May 9, 2024
9:00AM - 11:00AM PT (set your time zones during registration)
Via Zoom
Members $75.00
Non-members $125.00
Online Workout Group
Attend this online workout group, where you'll be given a "mystery script" and an opportunity to develop characters and perform them in front of your peers--all in 60 minutes! (Los Angeles time zone)
Saturday, May 11, 2024
9:00AM - 10:00AM PST (Set your time zone during registration)
Via Zoom
Members: Free
Non-Members: $30
Grimoire Clinic
This is the place to do everything related to creating or enhancing characters in your toolbox: creating something new, deepening a role, doing an offshoot of an existing character, and so on. Actors can bring scripts, or scripts can be assigned in-session.
Wednesday, May 15, 2024
11:00AM - 1:00PM Pacific Time (Set your time zone during registration)
Via Zoom
Members: $125.00
Non-Members: $175.00
Online Workout Group
Attend this online workout group, where you'll be given a "mystery script" and an opportunity to develop characters and perform them in front of your peers--all in 60 minutes! (Los Angeles time zone)
Friday, May 17, 2024
10:00AM - 11:00AM PST (Set your time zone during registration)
Via Zoom
Members: Free
Non-Members: $30
Online Workout Group
Attend this online workout group, where you'll be given a "mystery script" and an opportunity to develop characters and perform them in front of your peers--all in 60 minutes! (Los Angeles time zone)
Tuesday, May 21, 2024
7:00PM - 8:00PM PST (Set your time zone during registration)
Via Zoom
Members: Free
Non-Members: $30
Online Workout Group
Attend this online workout group, where you'll be given a "mystery script" and an opportunity to develop characters and perform them in front of your peers--all in 60 minutes! (Los Angeles time zone)
Wednesday, May 22, 2024
12:00PM - 1:00PM PST (Set your time zone during registration)
Via Zoom
Members: Free
Non-Members: $30
Online Workout Group
Attend this online workout group, where you'll be given a "mystery script" and an opportunity to develop characters and perform them in front of your peers--all in 60 minutes! (Los Angeles time zone)
Tuesday, May 28, 2024
4:00PM - 5:00PM PST (Set your time zone during registration)
Via Zoom
Members: Free
Non-Members: $30
Audiobook Clinic
Steve Marvel focuses on what it takes to give compelling performances in the “marathon, not a sprint” that is audiobooks. Participants will learn how to dig into a manuscript for acting clues, sustain the listener's interest, and minimize mistakes in order to maintain performance.
An actor with a nearly 40-year stage career, Steve started narrating audiobooks when he became one of only four narrators ever to win ACX's Audiobook Narration Contest. His 200 some titles include bestsellers in the Thriller, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Business, and Biography Genres for publishers such as Penguin Random House, Macmillan, Harper, and Hachette. He is an Audiofile Magazine Earphones Award winner, a 4-time Voice Arts Award finalist, and an Independent Book Publishers Association Benjamin Franklin Silver Medal Winner. Steve’s voice work is also featured in video games for Mattel, Sony, and Activision, and he maintains an active film and stage acting career. He is a graduate of both The Interlochen Arts Academy and Northwestern University in Acting, and currently teaches both Voiceover and Acting in the greater Cleveland area. Only Randall Ryan is allowed to call him “Marv”.
Thursday, May 30, 2024
9:00AM - 11:00AM PT (Set your time zones during registration)
Via Zoom
Members: $125.00
Non-members: $175.00
Online Workout Group
Attend this online workout group, where you'll be given a "mystery script" and an opportunity to develop characters and perform them in front of your peers--all in 60 minutes! (Los Angeles time zone)
Tuesday, June 4, 2024
9:00AM - 10:00AM PST (Set your time zone during registration)
Via Zoom
Members: Free
Non-Members: $30
Demo Clinic
This clinic is designed to help you wherever you are in the demo process, from ‘I don’t know what I’m doing’ to ‘I think I have what I need, but I want to be sure.’ Ideally participants bring scripts they wish to work on with the express intent of whether or not these should be on their demos: does this character play well? Does it suit the actor? Does it need tweaking, or even to be taken out of consideration? How do others react to it? A real-world audience for feedback, PLUS a director to help you through the thought process and improvements.
Thursday, June 6, 2024
9:00AM - 11:00AM PST
Via Zoom
Members: $125.00
Non-Members: $175.00
Online Workout Group
Attend this online workout group, where you'll be given a "mystery script" and an opportunity to develop characters and perform them in front of your peers--all in 60 minutes! (Los Angeles time zone)
Monday, June 10, 2024
7:00PM - 8:00PM PST (Set your time zone during registration)
Via Zoom
Members: Free
Non-Members: $30
Online Workout Group
Attend this online workout group, where you'll be given a "mystery script" and an opportunity to develop characters and perform them in front of your peers--all in 60 minutes! (Los Angeles time zone)
Thursday, June 13, 2024
10:00AM - 11:00AM PST (Set your time zone during registration)
Via Zoom
Members: Free
Non-Members: $30
Online Workout Group
Attend this online workout group, where you'll be given a "mystery script" and an opportunity to develop characters and perform them in front of your peers--all in 60 minutes! (Los Angeles time zone)
Tuesday, June 18, 2024
4:00PM - 5:00PM PST (Set your time zone during registration)
Via Zoom
Members: Free
Non-Members: $30
Online Workout Group
Attend this online workout group, where you'll be given a "mystery script" and an opportunity to develop characters and perform them in front of your peers--all in 60 minutes! (Los Angeles time zone)
Friday, June 21, 2024
9:00AM - 10:00AM PST (Set your time zone during registration)
Via Zoom
Members: Free
Non-Members: $30
Online Workout Group
Attend this online workout group, where you'll be given a "mystery script" and an opportunity to develop characters and perform them in front of your peers--all in 60 minutes! (Los Angeles time zone)
Monday, June 24, 2024
11:00AM - 12:00PM PST (Set your time zone during registration)
Via Zoom
Members: Free
Non-Members: $30
Online Workout Group
Attend this online workout group, where you'll be given a "mystery script" and an opportunity to develop characters and perform them in front of your peers--all in 60 minutes! (Los Angeles time zone)
Friday, May 3, 2024
8:00AM - 9:00AM PST (Set your time zone during registration)
Via Zoom
Members: Free
Non-Members: $30
Online Workout Group
Attend this online workout group, where you'll be given a "mystery script" and an opportunity to develop characters and perform them in front of your peers--all in 60 minutes! (Los Angeles time zone)
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
11:00AM - 12:00PM PST (Set your time zone during registration)
Via Zoom
Members: Free
Non-Members: $30
Online Workout Group
Attend this online workout group, where you'll be given a "mystery script" and an opportunity to develop characters and perform them in front of your peers--all in 60 minutes! (Los Angeles time zone)
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
7:30PM - 8:30PM PST (Set your time zone during registration)
Via Zoom
Members: Free
Non-Members: $30
Online Workout Group
Attend this online workout group, where you'll be given a "mystery script" and an opportunity to develop characters and perform them in front of your peers--all in 60 minutes! (Los Angeles time zone)
Thursday, April 18, 2024
8:00AM - 9:00AM PST (Set your time zone during registration)
Via Zoom
Members: Free
Non-Members: $30
Facebook Live with Steve Marvel
Award winning audiobook voice actor Steve Marvel will join us on Facebook Live.
Online Workout Group
Attend this online workout group, where you'll be given a "mystery script" and an opportunity to develop characters and perform them in front of your peers--all in 60 minutes! (Los Angeles time zone)
Tuesday, April 15, 2024
3:00PM - 4:00PM PST (Set your time zone during registration)
Via Zoom
Members: Free
Non-Members: $30
Online Workout Group
Attend this online workout group, where you'll be given a "mystery script" and an opportunity to develop characters and perform them in front of your peers--all in 60 minutes! (Los Angeles time zone)
Tuesday, April 9, 2024
9:00AM - 10:00AM PST (Set your time zone during registration)
Via Zoom
Members: Free
Non-Members: $30
Combat Clinic
Combat is so much more than attacks, hits, and deaths - it involves terror, stress and boredom; heroism and confusion; survival and moral choices. Most of us will never be in combat situations, yet it’s commonplace in video games. This clinic puts a granular focus on these aspects so that actors will not only be better prepared for actual combat games, but for any conflict resolution and realism, even when the only weapons are words.
Friday, April 5, 2024
10:00AM-12:00PM PT (Set your time zone during registration)
Via Zoom
Members: $125.00
Non-Members: $175.00
Online Workout Group
Attend this online workout group, where you'll be given a "mystery script" and an opportunity to develop characters and perform them in front of your peers--all in 60 minutes! (Los Angeles time zone)
Thursday, March 28, 2024
11:00AM - 12:00PM PST (Set your time zone during registration)
Via Zoom
Members: Free
Non-Members: $30
Gaming Simulation with Randall Ryan
This 2-part workshop prepares actors, from the audition process into those first few minutes of the actual session, to understand why it's important to create more than one persona, how to use backstories, know (or invent) nuances about the characters, and be prepared to go beyond the two-dimensional caricature. Not to mention being ready to have something completely different thrown at you by the director, writer, or others on the team.
At the Professional level, students are expected to perform with a high degree of competence, technique, acting skill, and a well-developed ability to take direction.
Date: Saturday March 23, 2024 10:00AM - Sunday March 24, 2024, 5:00PM
Location: Voice One San Francisco
Address: 414 Jackson Street, Suite 202, San Francisco, CA. 94111
Ticket Price: $625.00
https://reg.learningstream.com/reg/event_page.aspx?ek=0034-0030-aa3d0102aba947789b620e973ef771c7
Online Workout Group
Attend this online workout group, where you'll be given a "mystery script" and an opportunity to develop characters and perform them in front of your peers--all in 60 minutes! (Los Angeles time zone)
Wednesday, March 20, 2024
12:00PM - 1:00PM PST (Set your time zone during registration)
Via Zoom
Members: Free
Non-Members: $30
Game Developers Conference
GDC is a week-long celebration of the art, craft, and business of game development.
Dates: Monday, March 18, 2024 - Friday, March 22, 2024
Location: Moscone Center, San Francisco, CA
https://www.gdconf.com
License to Create: Character Innovation Beyond the Script
Actors often believe their job is to figure out what the client wants: in voice, in tone, in attitude, and then to deliver that. But guess what?In video games you are not bound by the words on the page.
You have license to be imaginative and create, with a bit of adherence to the guideposts along the way. Sure…say the script, understand the world…but you have a lot of leeway. Because the truth is the client doesn’t always really know what they want until they hear it, so why be generic?
Create characters you can believe in with risks and stakes YOU feel are worth fighting for. By emotionally committing, you will deliver something compelling and ultimately original. More often than not, originality gets the gig!
Led by Casting & Talent Director Randall Ryan and Voice Actor & Director Gillian Brashear
Date: Saturday, March 16, 2024 10:00AM - Sunday, March 17, 2024 6:00PM
Location: Voice Trax West - 12215 Ventura Blvd. #205 Studio City, CA 91604, USA
Price: $595.00
Online Workout Group
Attend this online workout group, where you'll be given a "mystery script" and an opportunity to develop characters and perform them in front of your peers--all in 60 minutes! (Los Angeles time zone)
Tuesday, March 12, 2024
10:00AM - 11:00AM PST (Set your time zone during registration)
Via Zoom
Members: Free
Non-Members: $30
VO Atlanta Voiceover Conference
VO Atlanta Voiceover Conference is the largest and longest-running conference in the industry! With exponentially more content and presenters than any other voiceover conference, this is the go-to event for VO professionals to stay up-to-date with trends, performance skills, best practices for running solopreneur businesses and to get advice and insight from experts in the industry. It offers more opportunities to connect with agents, casting directors, managers, leading voice actors and celebrities, and network with your fellow talent than you'll find anywhere else.
General Admission Pass - $647.00 - Attendees have access to all General Sessions throughout the event.
X-Sessions - $247.00 per session and not included in the General Admission ticket:
March 7th: 12:00PM - 3:00PM ET - Voice Actor & Director Gillian Brashear - Impactful Performances Get the Gig, Are You Doing Enough?
March 8th: 9:00AM - 12:00PM ET - Casting & Talent Director Randall Ryan - Show Me What You Got!
March 10th 8:30AM - 11:30AM ET - Casting & Talent Director Randall Ryan - Heartbreak and Rage: Delivering Nuanced Emotional Performances
For more information and to register: https://www.voatlanta.me/voa2024/Home
Online Workout Group
Attend this online workout group, where you'll be given a "mystery script" and an opportunity to develop characters and perform them in front of your peers--all in 60 minutes! (Los Angeles time zone)
Monday, March 4, 2024
8:00AM - 9:00AM PST (Set your time zone during registration)
Via Zoom
Members: Free
Non-Members: $30
Grimoire Clinic
This is the place to do everything related to creating or enhancing characters in your toolbox: creating something new, deepening a role, doing an offshoot of an existing character, and so on. Actors can bring scripts, or scripts can be assigned in-session.
Thursday, February 29, 2024
10:00AM - 12:00PM Pacific Time
Via Zoom
Members: $75
Non-Members: $149
Online Workout Group
Attend this online workout group, where you'll be given a "mystery script" and an opportunity to develop characters and perform them in front of your peers--all in 60 minutes! (Los Angeles time zone)
Monday, February 26, 2024
4:00PM - 5:00PM PST (Set your time zone during registration)
Via Zoom
Members: Free
Non-Members: $25
Online Workout Group
Attend this online workout group, where you'll be given a "mystery script" and an opportunity to develop characters and perform them in front of your peers--all in 60 minutes! (Los Angeles time zone)
Tuesday, February 20, 2024
8:30AM - 9:30AM PST (Set your time zone during registration)
Via Zoom
Members: Free
Non-Members: $25
Audiobook Clinic
Steve Marvel focuses on what it takes to give compelling performances in the “marathon, not a sprint” that is audiobooks. Participants will learn how to dig into a manuscript for acting clues, sustain the listener's interest, and minimize mistakes in order to maintain performance.
An actor with a nearly 40-year stage career, Steve started narrating audiobooks when he became one of only four narrators ever to win ACX's Audiobook Narration Contest. His 200 some titles include bestsellers in the Thriller, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Business, and Biography Genres for publishers such as Penguin Random House, Macmillan, Harper, and Hachette. He is an Audiofile Magazine Earphones Award winner, a 4-time Voice Arts Award finalist, and an Independent Book Publishers Association Benjamin Franklin Silver Medal Winner. Steve’s voice work is also featured in video games for Mattel, Sony, and Activision, and he maintains an active film and stage acting career. He is a graduate of both The Interlochen Arts Academy and Northwestern University in Acting, and currently teaches both Voiceover and Acting in the greater Cleveland area. Only Randall Ryan is allowed to call him “Marv”.
Monday, February 19, 2024
9:00AM - 11:00AM PST
Via Zoom
Ticket Price: $125.00
Demo Clinic
This clinic is designed to help you wherever you are in the demo process, from ‘I don’t know what I’m doing’ to ‘I think I have what I need, but I want to be sure.’ Ideally participants bring scripts they wish to work on with the express intent of whether or not these should be on their demos: does this character play well? Does it suit the actor? Does it need tweaking, or even to be taken out of consideration? How do others react to it? A real-world audience for feedback, PLUS a director to help you through the thought process and improvements.
Monday, February 12, 2024
9:00AM - 11:00AM PST
Via Zoom
Members: $75
Non-Members: $149
Online Workout Group
Attend this online workout group, where you'll be given a "mystery script" and an opportunity to develop characters and perform them in front of your peers--all in 60 minutes! (Los Angeles time zone)
Friday, February 9, 2024
8:00AM - 9:00AM PST (Set your time zone during registration)
Via Zoom
Members: Free
Non-Members: $25
Online Workout Group
Attend this online workout group, where you'll be given a "mystery script" and an opportunity to develop characters and perform them in front of your peers--all in 60 minutes! (Los Angeles time zone)
Monday, January 29, 2024
3:00PM - 4:00PM PST (Set your time zone during registration)
Via Zoom
Members: Free
Non-Members: $25
Character Always Wins!
Why character is more important than voice.
Too often, actors fall in the trap of focusing on a style of reading when auditioning for roles, and continue this once they've been cast. After all, that's what got you the job, right? Unfortunately, this often glosses over what's really going on. The actor doesn't realize the work they're not getting by focusing on the vocal performance and not the character. That is what we are going to focus on. Not voices, not styles, not reads. Characters.
Participants will write and send two character descriptions to me a few days before the workshop begins. We will work with one character in the morning, and the other character in the afternoon.
Note that while we will be working with video game scripts, this is valuable for any genre of work. This is not just for actors who wish to voice video games. Also, we will be talking about higher-level concepts with a presumption of knowledge about acting, so this is not an introductory class.
Date: Saturday, January 20, 2024
Time: 10:00AM - 6:00PM Local time
Location: Jukebox Studios 124 Barlby Road, London England, W10 6BL, United Kingdom
Ticket Price: £350.00
Online Workout Group
Attend this online workout group, where you'll be given a "mystery script" and an opportunity to develop characters and perform them in front of your peers--all in 60 minutes! (Los Angeles time zone)
Tuesday, January 16, 2024
8:00AM - 9:00AM PST (Set your time zone during registration)
Via Zoom
Members: Free
Non-Members: $25
Embrace, Inhabit, & Embody
A 2-day intensive workshop led by UK Casting Director Kirsty Gillmore and US Casting Director Randall Ryan. Participants will:
EMBRACE a deeper understanding of how to find truthful, emotional depth with video game characters.
Discover the flexibility to EMBODY different characters.
Create new parameters within the same character so you can INHABIT them in any situation.
Master the skills that will help you consistently book video game roles and enrich your work for other voice acting mediums.
For experienced professional actors who already work or wish to work in games.
Saturday January 13th - Sunday January 14th
10:00AM - 6:00PM Local Time
OMUK Studios, 22 Pakenham St., Unit 2, London, England, WC1X 0LB, United Kingdom
Ticket price: £495
Embrace, Inhabit, & Embody Waitlist Sign-up
Embrace, Inhabit, and Embody is Sold Out!. Sign-up here to get your name on the waitlist.
A 2-day intensive workshop led by UK Casting Director Kirsty Gillmore and US Casting Director Randall Ryan. Participants will:
EMBRACE a deeper understanding of how to find truthful, emotional depth with video game characters.
Discover the flexibility to EMBODY different characters.
Create new parameters within the same character so you can INHABIT them in any situation.
Master the skills that will help you consistently book video game roles and enrich your work for other voice acting mediums.
For experienced professional actors who already work or wish to work in games.
Saturday January 13th - Sunday January 14th
10:00AM - 6:00PM Local Time
OMUK Studios, 22 Pakenham St., Unit 2, London, England, WC1X 0LB, United Kingdom
Ticket price: £495
Online Workout Group
Attend this online workout group, where you'll be given a "mystery script" and an opportunity to develop characters and perform them in front of your peers--all in 60 minutes! (Los Angeles time zone)
Wednesday, January 10, 2024
10:00AM - 11:00AM PST (Set your time zone during registration)
Via Zoom
Members: Free
Non-Members: $25
Online Workout Group
Attend this online workout group, where you'll be given a "mystery script" and an opportunity to develop characters and perform them in front of your peers--all in 60 minutes! (Los Angeles time zone)
Friday, January 5, 2024
9:30AM - 10:30AM PST (Set your time zone during registration)
Via Zoom
Members: Free
Non-Members: $25
Online Workout Group
Attend this online workout group, where you'll be given a "mystery script" and an opportunity to develop characters and perform them in front of your peers--all in 60 minutes! (Los Angeles time zone)
Friday, December 22, 2023
9:00AM - 10:00AM PST (Set your time zone during registration)
Via Zoom
Members: Free
Non-Members: $25
One-On-One Consultation With Randall
Spend 30 minutes in a Zoom with Randall to discuss anything you wish: career, technique, networking/sales, demos, studios, and so on.
“I auditioned for a role in a video game the day after we got back. I looked over the notes from your class before I recorded to get in the right frame of mind. AND I GOT THE ROLE! My FIRST audition after your class!!! Thank you so much! If that isn't proof for your pudding, I don't know what else you need!”
- Tyler