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Registration Opens for “Voice Over Virtual” Online Conference September 18-20, 2013

(June 26, 2013) — Registration has opened for Voice Over Virtual, the first-ever online voice over training and networking conference for voice over actors at all career levels, and those considering a career and jobs in voice acting. The three-day main event takes place on September 18-20, 2013, featuring 50+ voice over training sessions from the industry’s top voice actors and coaches, an interactive exhibit hall for shopping and learning about home studio audio equipment and voice over products and services, and social media-style networking and interaction. Participants will attend this unprecedented conference at neither a hotel nor a convention center, but instead, affordably online in the convenience of their homes or from any personal device with an Internet connection. Event details and a premiere registration discount are available now at www.VoiceOverVirtual.com.  

Voice Over Career Track Training

At Voice Over Virtual, training will be presented in career tracks to allow participants to focus on specific genres, including audiobooks, home studio audio production, voice over business and marketing, and voice acting techniques. Training will address all levels of voice over experience, from newcomers to mid-level and advanced professionals. For instance, a session will introduce voice over beginners to the voice over business. Advanced professionals will receive advanced voice acting and home studio production training. And all career levels will learn essential business, marketing, audio technical and voice acting techniques. Special sessions will feature Pro-On-Pro interviews with top voice over professionals, and discussions will include “The Future of Voice Over,” “Voice Over: For Women Only” and a “Home Studio Experts Roundtable.” In the virtual Voice Over Agents and Casting Directors Hall, participants can schedule private online career meetings with agents and casting directors, including evaluations of their voice over demos, which are key marketing tools for obtaining voice over jobs. Access to on-demand recordings of all sessions will be available to registrants until November 30, 2013, which makes the entire event customizable for participants to enjoy according to their own personal schedule. According to Voice Over Virtual emcee Dave Courvoisier, conference attendees will have access to:

A VoicePlex Theater, where four view screens list tracks and links to educational presentations hosted by more than 50 of the industry’s leading professionals. Each presenter’s Meeting Room will offer opportunities for additional info, including real-time text chats and Q&A sessions.

Pro-On-Pro split screen interviews, including “The Essence of Audiobook Narration,” featuring 2013 Audie Award-winners Simon Vance and Katie Kellgren, asking each other unrehearsed questions in an unedited Q&A.

A Virtual Exhibit Hall, with an array of mouse-clickable booths where attendees can learn about voice over equipment, products and services, and chat with manufacturers and distributors.

Meeting Rooms, for personal and group online chats with voice over trainers and coaches, and learning about their services.

Networking opportunities, which will abound at online Hangout Lounges such as Tom’s Tiki Lounge and the Chance Encounter Café. Seasoned professionals as well as industry newcomers can discuss home studios topics, voice acting tips, or any topic they wish to explore.

  Open House Reception on September 7 - Sponsored by VO Peeps!

Voice Over Virtual’s live online Open House Reception on September 7 will acquaint current and future registrants to the virtual environment with how-to videos, pre-shows, and games. Hosted by Anne Ganguzza, founder of the VO Peeps voice over meet-up group, the event will be entertaining, educational, and an opportunity to “meet” many Voice Over Virtual trainers and team members. Stay tuned for for details and registration for this not to be missed event! The conference is produced by VoiceOverXtra LLC, which is the voice over industry’s premier online news, education and resource center. Creative consultants and voice over industry insiders involved in the conference are:

Producer: John Florian, voice talent and founder/publisher of the VoiceOverXtra.com voice over news and training website;

Event Director: Denise Chamberlain, voice talent and professional event manager;

Production Director: Dan Lenard voice talent, Home Studio Master audio guru, and co-host of the East West Audio Body Shop (EWABS) Ustream TV show;

Virtual Emcee and Social Media Director: Dave Courvoisier, voice talent and award-winning Las Vegas TV news anchor;

Exhibits & Sponsors Director: Martha Kahn, voice talent and VoiceOverXtra's Marketing & Sales Director;

Business Director: Elizabeth Holmes, voice talent and business consultant;

Event Consultants: James Alburger and Penny Abshire, voice talents, trainers, and co-producers of the VOICE conventions;

Marketing Consultant: Tom Dheere, voice talent and voice over marketing and business consultant;

Special Events Producer, Anne Ganguzza, voice talent and founder of the VO Peeps voice over meet-up group, and

Social Media Monitor: Christopher Lula, actor and VoiceOverXtra exhibits staffer

"Inside every VO artist, there is an actor. Set yours free." - David H Lawrence XVII

Hey Peeps!

Here we go!  VO Peeps are BACK in ACTION in June with a start of summer celebration!  Mark those calendars for June 29, 2013 at 6:30 pm for the next VO Peeps meetup with the fabulous and multi-talented David H. Lawrence XVII!  David will be taking us on an interactive journey to discover our inner actor.  We'll be digging deep into the art of storytelling and then kicking it up a notch, working to enhance those VO skills.  And we'll be broadcasting LIVE from the party on our Ustream channel .  Make sure to sign up early - you won't want to miss all the fun - we even have a few really COOL  surprises in store for you!

OUR VOICES CAN BUILD DREAMS!

DONATE TODAY FOR A CHANCE TO WIN:

Just in: David has generously agreed to donate 3 live  vo2gogo class all day workshop sessions ($750 value!)  or 3 vo2gogo video on demand classes to the VO Peeps Career Education Scholarship Fund!  David's got a fabulous line up of current and relevant workshops to choose from including:

Voicing Documentary Narration VO

Mastering Voicebank

Mastering Voiceregistry

Becoming a Union Signatory

Creating Your Own VO Content

Mastering Home VO Gear

Mastering ACX.com Part 1: Profiles and Demos

Mastering ACX.com Part 2: Auditions and Work

video classes - over 27 workshops to choose from!

and much more!

We are incredibly  grateful for his generous gift and are raffling off tickets to raise money for our 2013 Scholarship Drive.  Donate today and you'll be entered in chance to win the chance to learn with David!

Let's take a more in depth look at David's history and career:

After a 30 year career on radio in markets from New York to San Francisco to satellite and network, David H. Lawrence XVII decided to make a drastic change. He hung up his headphones and retired from hosting 3 syndicated radio shows to head to Los Angeles, to concentrate solely on acting in front of the camera. This new phase of Lawrence's performance career seems to fit him like a glove. The Cleveland native has been seen on TBS' Frank TV, CBS' legendary CSI, their military thriller The Unit and served a month or so as the announcer on The Price is Right; he's appeared on TBS' Raising The Bar, ABC's epic LOST, NBC's spy dramedy Chuck, the hit Disney Channel sitcom Good Luck Charlie, FOX'a new Bones-spinoff, The Finder, and his breakout role as one of the Villains, puppet master Eric Doyle on NBC's smash hit Heroes, has sci-fi fans and the media buzzing. Lawrence also stars in new media as well, reprising the Doyle role as the lead in the PRODUCED BY Producer's Challenge winner Heroes: Nowhere Man, from NBC and Retrofit. Lawrence's film career includes on-camera and VO work on The Changeling, The Hulk, Iron Man, Percy Jackson, Unstoppable, Too Big to Fail, A Special Relationship and countless others. As a new media expert, David Lawrence was heard nightly as the wacky, eclectic and highly opinionated host of The David Lawrence Show, and weekend Online Tonight, both nationally syndicated radio talk shows that revolved around pop culture and the high-tech lifestyle. The Emmy-award winning and Clio-nominated Lawrence is deeply rooted in the music industry as well, and anchored The Net Music Countdown for almost a decade, counting down the top downloaded and streamed artists on the Net. These shows were heard on over 300 radio stations and both XM and Sirius Satellite Radio. Lawrence is at the forefront of the podcasting revolution, having delivered daily RealAudio and MP3 "podcasts" via email from early 1994. Lawrence counts over 350 Fortune 500 and private companies as podcasting clients, either as a podcast talent, producer, designer or consultant. Each night, he voices over 25 daily podcast episodes for clients. Lawrence appeared on radio for over 30 years as a top rated air personality on stations like WGN/Chicago, WMAL, WMZQ and WRQX/Washington DC, WGAR, WGCL, and WDMT/Cleveland, KC101/New Haven, WTAE/Pittsburgh and WNCI and WLVQ/Columbus. He is a founding member and was executive producer of the legendary radio comedy ensemble, the American Comedy Network. He wrote the best-selling Learn HTML on The Macintosh, the first web design book exclusively for Macintosh users. His is the voice of America Online's customer service lines, as well as the voice of over 1500 other interactive voice response telephone systems - he is one of the most often heard voices in the world, and Lawrence helps other actors create their own voiceover career with his award winning VO2GoGo.com voiceover cosultancy. He also teaches voicework workshops and classes at various studios around Los Angeles. His past theatre and voice work include originating the role of Charles Bukowski in Sacred Fools' LA's award-winning Bukowsical!, Potter in It's A Wonderful Life, the role of El Gallo in The Fantasticks, as well as parts in The Children's Hour, The Good Doctor, Born Yesterday, The Fall of the House of Usher and starred as Barry Champlain in Talk Radio. He has performed on stage at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and is a lifelong member of Mensa. Lawrence makes regular appearances as an industry commentator on G4, CNN, FOX, CBS, MS-NBC, and Tribune broadcasting outlets as well as the CBC and the BBC, where he is a featured tech expert on Radio 5 Live's Up All Night. He has delivered keynote addresses, inservice teaching and has served as both moderator and panel member at conferences ranging from MacWorld, CES, FOSE and COMDEX to The Micropayment Conference, Gnomedex, the Podcasting and Portable Media Expo and the NAB. His dozens of award winning web sites include work featured in the permanent collection at the Smithsonian, the home page for America Online CEO Steve Case, Quincy Jones' Qradio.net site (nominated for a WIRED Reader Rant award), and the AMD Professional Gamer's League site. Lawrence created the industry standard Rehearsal app for the iPhone, allowing actors and VO talent to have a digital rehearsal studio right on their iPhone or iPad. Lawrence is represented theatrically by Karl Hofheinz at Synergy Talent, and commercially and for VO by Beverly Kline at Independent Artists. He is managed by Yoni Ovadia at Ovadia Management. You can reach David at [email protected] or at http://www.davids.com. Call him anytime at 818-326-7700. For more information, be sure to visit David's websites: http://davids.com http://vo2gogo.com http://rehearsaltheapp.com http://secretsofscreenacting.com

If you live in Orange County, CA area and are interested in becoming a member and attending our bi-monthly meetings, please make sure to fill out our membership application. Also, make sure to sign up for our email list to keep up with the latest happenings of the group.  Thank you for your interest and hope to see you all at the meetup!

Best Wishes and Much Success,