Live Instructor-led Courses

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.

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.

Game Mode 2.0 is open to all intermediate actors familiar with character work, and a recommended companion program to Game Mode.  This course is a comprehensive VO program taught by Chris Okawa based on his experience working week-in and week-out as a video game actor for the past 11 years.

As classes progress, you are thrown into video game recording-session simulations, working off of grid-scripts, simulating physical states, finding those unique and viable NPC reads, and varying your takes. 

As an instructor, Chris has a workshop, one-on-one emphasis, and strives to lead actors to discover new depths to their characters and reimagine themselves as voice actors.

Make sure to check out FAQs down below!

Authentic Narration 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 (aside from his own).

Narration VO auditions typically demand a voice that is “friendly” & “welcoming”, as well as being “an authority” or “an expert.” This can be difficult when your script calls for you to discuss “the formation of malondialdehyde and conjugated diene compounds, which are cytotoxic and mutagenic.” Don’t forget to sound like an expert!

In this course, you will learn how to approach any Narration script and, by answering a few questions, find a voice that is authentic, conversational, friendly, & confident.

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

A solid foundation in audio as a voice talent in this modern remote-working world is imperative, especially when working with studios and engineers, and while it takes time to master the craft, we want to give you a fast and effective path towards a professional standard of work in your own home studio.

Over the course of 8 weeks we will introduce to you definitions & terms used when working with sound, as well as such necessary tools & techniques as gain staging, equalization (EQ), and compression, as well as real world uses of the skills needed to be successful.

You will be given audio examples and practical projects that relate closely to real-world professional practice. This is a hands on course designed to guide you, step-by-step, along the path to possessing a strong skillset in audio engineering your voiceovers.

Note: While we use REAPER as the main software to demonstrate our concepts and methods, what we teach is not only applicable to REAPER - everything we teach can be done in almost any program, from Audacity to Pro Tools.

If you use a different program and are worried about whether you'll still be able to follow along, reach out to Laneth to ask them about setting up some extra time to show you how to do it in your preferred program - and who knows, maybe a group session will be set up if a number of people use the same program!

Join us for a multi-week voice acting workshop all about ADR, where you'll explore different genres each week!

Begin with animated action adventure, bringing mythical characters and martial arts to life with a mix of realism and comedy.

We'll also dive into live-action comedy, honing your timing and energy with a hilarious film; a tough skill to master.

Then we will tackle historical drama, delving into the nuanced performances of an 18th-century epic. Always remember it's not just the voice, but the acting!

Finally, we will jump into the world of anime, channeling high-energy performances and larger-than-life characters.

Get ready for a workout!

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!

Game Mode is a dynamic VO program taught by Chris Okawa based on his monthly workout series Cricket Fam VO Jam curriculum he's taught at Cricket Sound for the past 4 years.Week over week it folds-in vocal disciplines specific to the video game genre, a genre unique for the opportunity to play the entire lifecycle of a character, it's epic theatrical scenework, and a branching, complex narrative structure.

Learn how to bring fights to life, spur the Player on, and access new and under-utilized corners of your voice. 

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

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

You've been taking classes. You've been practicing. But when someone asks to hear your work, what do you send them?

A raw voice recording doesn't showcase what you can really do. A professional demo costs hundreds of dollars, and you're not ready for that investment yet. So, what do you share in the meantime?

From Zero to Sampler is designed to bridge the gap between training and professional demos by teaching you how to create polished voice-over sample scenes using Reaper, one of the industry's most accessible and powerful digital audio workstations.

Across four weeks, you'll learn how to build immersive 8–15-second scenes using your voice, music, ambiance, and sound effects while developing the technical skills to continue creating new content long after the course ends.

Instead of simply showing you what buttons to press, this course teaches why each production choice matters and how every sound supports storytelling.

Ever wonder how to interpret an anime script? Are you interested in adding more characters to your wheelhouse? For the next four weeks, we delve into the intricacies of bringing your anime script to life; whether you're an aspiring actor or simply passionate about the anime genre, this course offers invaluable insights into effectively breaking down and executing your anime copy. Our materials for the course are written by the same scriptwriters from some of your favorite anime. By the end of the course, you'll be equipped with the practical skills to voice multiple characters, enhancing your versatility as an actor.

Now that you’ve discovered how to use your instrument properly and how to bring emotional context into your words, it’s time to learn how to put it all together and learn how to act.

You will hear many terms used to describe someone who uses his or her voice to make a living. Voice Over, Voice Talent, Announcer etc., but one of the most important terms that most won’t debate is Voice Actor. After all, this is what we are doing, acting with our voice.

As we’ve described in previous workshops, Voice Acting is the combination of Theatre, Film and Broadcasting. It’s very helpful to have experience in all three in order to truly master the variety of skills needed for each individual project. No two projects are the same, so there is always a need for a variety of skills. In this course we will do our best to teach you all three.

It's time to get down to the nitty gritty!

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.

An 8-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. 

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. Even with characters in commercials, it's essential always to be authentic. 

In this course, you will learn how to approach any Commercial character script and, by answering a few simple questions, find a voice that is authentic, conversational, friendly, & confident – while still being a version of you.

Think of this class as an advanced version of our already authentic commercial VO class. You'll apply everything you've learned in those classes here.  

ADR Dubbing: Knowing Your Genre 2 is the advanced continuation of the original course, designed for actors who already understand ADR fundamentals and want to push their performance into more demanding territory it takes everything learned in the original course and raises the stakes.

While the original course focuses on learning the basics of ADR timing, genre interpretation, and script breakdown, this advanced workshop challenges actors with more complex scenes, emotionally intense performances, and physically demanding dubbing scenarios.

Actors will move beyond basic genre interpretation and dive into complex scenes requiring timing precision, emotional depth, and physical performance energy.

Students will work with scenes requiring greater emotional depth, higher stakes acting, horror tension, and combat sequences that include vocal efforts.

This class is designed to simulate the real pressures of professional ADR sessions, where actors must deliver powerful performances while staying perfectly synced to picture.

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Ready to expand your character wheelhouse and push your anime reads to the next level? This 4-week advanced course is designed for students who have completed Anime Archetypes and Auditions and are eager to dive deeper into performance variety, emotional range, and script interpretation.

Throughout the course, you’ll explore new archetypes and learn how to break down anime scripts, embody dynamic characters, and deliver performances that feel authentic and alive. We’ll be working with scripts written by the same writers behind some of your favorite anime—giving you a real-world taste of what the industry expects.

By the end, you'll walk away with practical tools to voice multiple character types with confidence—boosting your versatility and strengthening your skills as a working voice actor.

Please note: Completion of “Anime Archetypes and Auditions” is strongly recommended before taking this class.

BEFORE YOU REGISTER

Please make sure this course is right for you before enrolling.

Students must be 18 years of age or older. Students will be required to sign an age verification and content acknowledgment waiver. Adult themes and NSFW industry practices will be discussed throughout the course. No visual NSFW material will ever be presented during class. Audio examples will always include verbal content warnings before playback. Students are never required to perform material outside of their comfort level or professional boundaries. Participation in this course does not require students to pursue adult voice acting professionally.

Intimate Audio Business is built around professionalism, safety, consent, and education.

Adult voice acting is one of the fastest growing and most misunderstood areas of the voice-over industry. From audiobooks and video games to custom commissions, audio roleplay, and dubbing, intimate audio work requires far more than simply performing lines on a microphone. It demands professionalism, strong boundaries, business knowledge, vocal technique, and an understanding of how to protect yourself both personally and professionally.

Intimate Audio Business is a four-week intensive designed to provide actors with realistic, judgment-free education about the adult voice acting industry. This course isn't about convincing students to pursue NSFW work. It's about equipping those who are curious or interested with the tools needed to make informed decisions while navigating the space safely and professionally.

Throughout the course, students will learn about performance techniques, privacy and identity management, rates, auditions, client communication, business practices, and long-term career development. Just as importantly, students will develop their own professional boundaries and learn that saying "no" is every bit as important as learning how to say "yes."

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.

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!

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.

Kick your motivation into overdrive, with one of the most motivated performers in our industry.  Join VO Chef Deb Munro as we assess where you are at now and put your drive to the test. Many talent have the initial passion to make it in this artistic industry, but not the follow through to make it all happen.  How bad do you really want this?  What are you willing to do to make it happen?  Classes and training aren’t enough.  Learn what it takes to navigate these waters and what you need to do to follow through to make it all happen.  Put your business into overdrive and set yourself apart from the rest.  This will be an investment you won’t regret.  

Stop throwing auditions into the void. In this 4-week workshop, VO Chef Deb shows you how to crack the code of Pay 2 Play sites — from algorithms to profiles to audition strategies — so you stop guessing and start booking.  Pay 2 Play is making a significant mark on the industry, so If you’re paying to play, it’s time to learn how to win

Tons of mic time!  This is NOT lecture based - it's all hands/voices on!  

Time to ace those auditions and stand out from the rest.  Test your audtiion skills in various genres.  Work on audition skills, tips and techniques using scripts/auditions provided for you or bring in your own current auditions and have them directed by our own VOChef Deb - an award winning 30 year veteran of the voice world.

Learn what you need to do to stand out in this aggressive market, from a talent who's not afraid to tell it like it is!  

Join us for a multi-week voice acting workshop all about ADR, where you'll explore different genres each week!

Begin with animated action adventure, bringing mythical characters and martial arts to life with a mix of realism and comedy.

We'll also dive into live-action comedy, honing your timing and energy with a hilarious film; a tough skill to master.

Then we will tackle historical drama, delving into the nuanced performances of an 18th-century epic. Always remember it's not just the voice, but the acting!

Finally, we will jump into the world of anime, channeling high-energy performances and larger-than-life characters.

Get ready for a workout!