If you're a professional actor, you already know how insanely competitive the commercial voiceover field is.  And with more wannabe voice actors streaming out of acting schools every year, it isn't getting any easier.

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And yet, despite having legions of theater and film-trained actors to choose from, most industry people will tell you that finding even one who understands how to approach commercial voiceovers correctly and book them consistently is exceedingly rare.  

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The reason is simple.  Most actors, even many seasoned pros, look at commercial copy as silly and artificial, not as a vehicle for inspired, truthful acting.  With luck, a talented few will figure out the puzzle and have some success, perhaps even go on to teach other actors.  Great, but they can only teach what worked for them.  What about the auditions didn't book? Why didn't they book those?  Did they misinterpret the copy?  Under-project?  Over-project?  Confuse an announcer role with that of a character? What should they have done to correct their read?  Alas, only the person at the ad agency who reviewed their audition would know the answer to those questions.

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Someone like me, for instance.

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As a former advertising creative as well as a longtime voiceover actor myself, I can reveal all those little-known secrets to what makes voiceover actors successful – or unsuccessful – and explain it in a language you already understand. Because great commercial acting is still about great acting – it just has its own set of guidelines, just as other forms of acting do. Once learned, you'll be able to take on those "silly" sounding scripts with the same kind of inspired, creative choices you bring to your film and stage auditions – and inspire agents and casting directors in the process.

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If this sounds like the kind of voice acting you'd like to be doing, let's talk.  Then let's set up a one-time assessment session to determine your strengths, where you could use some help, and what the time and cost would be to reach your full potential.

 

My rates for private coaching are competitive and are done safely over Zoom or Skype with full recording capability.  When you're ready, we can also discuss putting together a broadcast quality demo, so you'll have professionally mastered proof you're one of the rare few who understands the commercial genre and can compete with the best of them.

 

​For more information about my voice demos, please visit my Production page.