ACADEMY 2025: Voice Acting Technique

Kiki & David Gindler Performing Arts Center

Voice Acting
Introduction to the World of Voiceover

Video games, animation, commercials, audiobooks, scripted podcasts - voiceover work is full of possibilities...and fun! In this workshop, we will explore the techniques we as actors can use to bring to life the various forms of texts. Using "copy" from the different genres, we will learn to identify what is required of us as performers and how to best serve the material; rehearsing, preparing and recording our performances. Technical aspects of the craft will also be covered, even if you only have a smartphone. Students will also experience what it's like to work in the voiceover booth - as one of our classes will be held in a professional voiceover recording studio with an engineer. Bring your "funny voices" and your "You should do voiceover!!" energy to this class.

October 27, November 3, November 10, November 17,  December 1, December 8

*Please note, students under 18 require permission from the moderator to take this academy class/workshop. If you’re in this category, please reach out to us at academy@antaeus.org.

About Tessa Auberjonois
ANTAEUS; South Coast Rep; Barrington Stage; Kirk Douglas; Shakespeare Theatre, D.C.; Hartford Stage; Westport Playhouse; Yale Rep; Utah Shakespearean; Wilma; Lucille Lortel; Player’s. Selected Film/TV: Birth, Monsters, The Affair, Modern Family, How I Met Your Father, Shameless, ER. Numbers, Law & Order, SVU, Boston Legal, General Hospital, etc. She has narrated multiple audiobooks and was nominated for a BTVA Award for OK K.O.! on Cartoon Network, has been the voice of several national commercial campaigns, and voiced roles in Cabin in the Woods, Gangs of New York, Haywire, Grace and Frankie and Hot in Cleveland. She currently teaches scene study at Berg Studios, and Voice and Speech at AMDA College, and has previously taught voiceover techniques at the Don La Fontaine Voiceover Lab for the SAG Foundation, Berg Studios, and LA City College. Awards: Ovation, Lunt-Fontanne, Oliver Thorndike. MFA (Yale). Trained at LAMDA.

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Tessa Auberjonois
At ANTAEUS: Eight Nights, Macbeth, ClassicsFests: Heartbreak House, The Matchmaker, Hay Fever, Blithe Spirit.  She has worked extensively Off-Broadway and Regionally. Her favorite classical roles include Lady Utterword in Heartbreak House (Hartford Stage); Margery Pinchwife in The Country Wife and Lydia Languish in The Rivals (The Shakespeare Theatre in Washington D.C); Viola in Twelfth Night (Utah Shakespearean); and Myra in Hay Fever (Westport).  She has created and premiered many new roles including Neil LaBute’s How To Fight Loneliness,  Lucy Thurber’s Killers and Other Family, Annie Weisman’s Hold Please, Rajiv Joseph’s Mr. Wolf, Richard Greenberg’s Everett Beekin, Dael Orlandersmith’s  Bones,  as well as Trainspotting (Player’s Theatre.) The Roommate, Mr. Wolf, Absurd Person Singular, Becky Shaw, Crimes of the Heart, Lobby Hero,  among many others (South Coast Repertory).  Her voice is heard regularly on commercials, video games, podcasts, and audiobooks. TV credits include The Affair, Modern Family, I’m Dying Up Here, Shameless, Law & Order(s), ER, Boston Legal. She is also a coach, teacher, and mother. tessaauberjonois.com
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*member, Actor’s Equity Association, the union of professional Actors and Stage Managers in the U.S. This production is presented under the auspices of the Actors’ Equity Los Angeles Membership Company Rule
Kiki & David Gindler Performing Arts Center
110 East Broadway
Glendale, California 91205