Live Instructor-led Courses

In VA201 'The Emotional Roller Coaster', you will learn how important emotions are in the world of acting. Without feelings and emotions it is very difficult to bring words to life in a way that will engage the listener. Over the next 8 classes we will take you on the ride of a lifetime as we put you in the front seat of your emotional rollercoaster. You will work on techniques that will help you face your fears and get rid of any nerves you face that can get in the way of a great performance. You will discover how to bring hidden intentions into everything you read.

Explore an emotional journey and break down common basic emotions and get in touch with how you express emotions for different situations and how you can bring this into everything you do. You will uncover effective ways for your characters to express their emotions and hidden intentions that will differ from your own. Learn the different elements that contribute to creating emotion in your script from an acting perspective as well as production. Master the tools and techniques that will help you bring your scripts to life. You will learn how listening and reacting will completely change the way you perform. There will be plenty of scripts to read in this course, so grab your box of Kleenex, get your chops ready and hang on for an emotional ride into the world of emotional performance.

In-Depth Script Analysis is a hands-on, 4-week course blending imaginative prompts with practical scene work, with a particular focus on Character-Driven Narratives.

Students will learn to dissect scripts for subtext, adapt to multiple genres, bring emotional truth to heightened moments, and deliver performances ready for casting.

Each week builds toward a final showcase where actors perform, adjust on the fly, and connect their artistry directly to industry expectations

Being able to do a variety of unique voices can be a huge plus in your career and make you a must-keep for clients and studios.The ability to portray different characters and make them sound different enough that you can have them in the same scene and not sound like they are the same person is a skill that few have, but not something that can't be learned.If you are interested, this may just be the course for you.

Battle Effort Dynamics is a 4-week course exploring how physical movement directly influences vocal effort and performance. Through guided exercises and live feedback, students learn how weapon size, motion, and environmental factors such as running, climbing, and jumping affect breath, intensity, and realism in battle reads.

Accent Training is a focused, hands-on 4-week voiceover program designed to give actors the tools to perform a wide range of accents confidently and authentically.

Across four weeks, students will explore foundational British accents, branch into global and industry-specific needs, and finish with an open practice session tailored to their personal goals.

This course is highly interactive, with a strong emphasis on live performance, critique, and industry application.

Commercial Voiceover is taught by Dave Bisson, A Chicago-based full-time voice artist who’s lent his voice to hundreds of TV, radio, & digital commercials, as well as industrial narrations, video games, toys, IVR, & just about every other form of VO except audiobooks.

Commercial VO auditions are near-universally asking for a read that’s “Conversational”, “Authentic”, “Genuine”, “Guy/Girl-next-door”, “A real person, not an actor” which has left a lot of aspiring (or even established) voiceover talent wondering how they can be any of these things for a script saying that power saws are on sale at the local hardware store.

In this course, you will learn how to approach any Commercial script and, by answering a few simple questions, find a voice that is authentic, conversational, friendly, & confident – without having to do any research on power saws.

Additionally, this course will deal with all the traps and pitfalls scripts can contain that are sabotaging your authentic voice without you even realizing it.

Voice acting is more than auditions and performance. It's also communication, marketing, pricing, networking, and long-term planning.

Business for Voice Actors is a practical 4-week intensive designed to help actors approach their careers like professionals. Through a combination of business strategy, live coaching, and real-world examples, students will learn how to market themselves effectively, communicate with clients confidently, price their work intelligently, and create a roadmap for sustainable growth.

Whether you're just starting out or looking to take your career more seriously, this course will help you develop the business skills needed to support your artistic goals.

As with any profession or trade, it takes time for people to master their craft; voice acting included. A weekend seminar at a famous studio or a weeklong boot camp with a voice coach may be cool, but it probably won't increase your abilities to the point of landing loads of voice gigs. That's why we designed this course with the goal of making sure students see tangible improvements in not just acting, but speaking as a whole.

VA101 is designed to teach students about their vocal instrument and how to play it. Starting out from the basics and diving deep into understanding the different parts, how to control them, and how to train them to ensure its longevity. You will learn about your Voicebox, your articulators, posture, warmup and breathing techniques, consonants, plosives, sibilance, natural articulation, handling a lisp, mic techniques, and so much more!

Why do some actors feel so confident improvising in their work and others seem to fall apart if the script isn’t followed to the letter?

Improvising is a learnable skill, not just something you’re born with. It takes practice in the playing and risking, to get comfortable in the area of discovery and performance without safety nets. What better place to do that work than with other actors and instructors BEFORE you might need it on set, stage or in the booth?

Improv is a tremendous skill to hone so that your work is always engaging, reactive and “real-feeling” to you and the audience.

Over 6 weekly online live classes, we will play in many ways to familiarize you with techniques you can do solo or in a group to unlock your potential as an actor creatively capable of improvisation in script or unscripted work.

Improv helps actors with their auditioning and acting skills as well as giving them the tools to use on set, stage or in the booth. Many directors will ask actors to improvise on set with their fellow actors, and often before casting you, in the audition(s).

8 weeks, 120 mins classes. ALL LIVE VOICING with direction and feedback on the biggest genres within the medium of professional Voice Over/Acting.-Character work for Anime, Cartoons; prelay and dub styles

-Commercial work; being real vs being characters.

-Announcer work

-Narration: manuals, textbooks, long-form commercials

-Audio books: fiction and non-fiction

-Video Game voicing: realism vs charactery

-Trailers: for film and media products

-Deeper emotional and energetic training

A 4-week program that will change the way you work. 

A student recently said to me: "VO veterans are all telling us to stay away from AI, but this is our new world, can't someone teach us how to work within it and find our way?" 

The growing presence of AI has brought on a lot of fear. We are all worried about what the future holds FOR EVERY INDUSTRY...  how can we find a way to make it work for us so that we don't lose our place in the working world? How do we protect our voice? How can we leverage AI to help our businesses run BETTER? How do we stay ahead of the AI curve, so that the future of VO and performance stays human?This is a very controversial topic and I just want to take a moment to explain why I'm taking this on and why this course is absolutely necessary.  AI IS NOT GOING ANYWHERE - so now we have to find our way.   

Instead of fighting A.I., we learn to use it like a power tool for your voiceover career — while protecting your craft, your rights, and your future.

FINDING YOUR OWN WORK

Creating a Voice Acting business takes drive!

In this 8 week workshop - you will be put to the test.

Hands-on activities that force you to look for work.

You will walk away with:

Marketing Schedule/Plan

Where to look for work 

How to approach potential clients

Pay 2 Play, Twitter, Fiverr, and other casting sites

Finding the right agent

Cover Letter Outlines

Follow Ups

Accountability

Assessment of your material *whatever stage you are at

This class is designed for everyone, from beginner & intermediate actors, to the working talent who might be hitting a wall and need to make a change!  

This unique approach to finding your own work has proven to be effective for not only hundreds of talents at different levels of their career, but is a tribute to the success of your coach - VO Chef Deb Munro.  

Deb will share her industry secrets with you and take you through a plan from beginning to end, showing you another side to the business that you may have not considered.  This is a daunting industry.  It's not just about having the right skills, getting a great demo and landing an agent!  You have to know how to go after and find the work yourself - and there are not many who want to share.  This is a great opportunity to learn from a talent who built her business from the ground up and continues to thrive in her career.  She isn't going to wait around for it to happen, so join her for 8 intense weeks of research, development and growth and take your career to the next level.