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How to speak clearly with good vocal technique to keep the speaking voice long lasting and healthy

Your speaking voice is your calling card to the world. It sums up your entire personality and sends it forth into the atmosphere for all to experience. It quite literally creates your world! Its uniqueness clearly identifies the one-and-only YOU! So, it is important to polish it up so that we put our best foot forward in all of our business, professional, and personal relationships by cultivating a strong, healthy, expressive speaking voice. Together we will help you learn to release your Natural Voice with ease and power, improve your pronunciation and vocal color, and develop good habits of speaking, enunciation, and breathing techniques. Fortunately, good voice quality can be learned, so let's start uncovering that wonderful vocal instrument within you. Improved communications skills can help you express your ideas and creative abilities, and open up new worlds in your personal, business, and professional lives! Let's start today!

The awesome thing about working with kids on acting is that they usually come equipped with active imaginations and are already versed in the art of playing. Adult actors of all levels vary in their experience and training, but some may not have as easy access to that inner kid. And at the core of good acting is the ability to let go of inhibitions and play, which most kids do pretty naturally.

I first started working with young people as a college student when I returned home to conduct improv workshops at Scotland High School where I had graduated in North Carolina. I was also a camp counselor for 2 years at our local adventure camp. (Don't get me started on the talent shows we'd co-produce with our kids). Since then, I've conducted interactive workshops on Shakespearean Acting (including stage combat!) across the southeast while on tour with the North Carolina Shakespeare Festival's Globeworks Program. I've also lead workshops at the West End Studio Theatre in Santa Cruz ...

Learn voice over technique that will allow you to make your voice over demo and know what is needed to eventually become successful in the industry.

I’m internationally recognized for my work as a voice actor, heard on numerous movie trailers for a well respected film company. I will carefully listen to what talent you already have and then work with you one on one to develop your vocal, breathing, and speech patterns, preparing you to reach your goals in the competitive industry of voice acting. Whether you are a beginner or more than a beginner, and want to earn money narrating audiobooks, land a position in radio broadcasting, or seek a career performing voices for the animation or video game industries, I can help you improve your skills and increase your confidence.

I just graduated from the esteemed Acting undergraduate degree at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, after doing a year of the same degree at Emerson College in Boston- so I am very familiar with the audition and training styles of both the US and the UK! I have tons of experience teaching various subjects to people of all ages, especially high schoolers preparing for college auditions in acting or musical theater. Whether it's Shakespeare, contemporary, MT, or high-style pieces you're looking to polish, I am your guy! Can't wait to meet you!