Through this super fun improvisation workshop, learn how to ‘let go’ in your work, tune into your best instincts, and create productive dialogue with your text, fellow voice actors, and directors. Your instructor, Rusty Birdwell, will teach you how to make work into play, adapt on the fly, and tap into the creative instincts that will bring you quicker to characters, connection with fellow voice actors, and collaboration with directors. This class will help students of all genres of VO learn how to let loose, adjust more easily to feedback, and create characters—all while sounding and feeling more natural in their performance — and most importantly…HAVE FUN!
It’s easy to feel stilted and unnatural with your work, even if—and sometimes, especially if—you have put in the time to be fully prepared. Sometimes it’s the pressure of “perfect” delivery, sometimes it’s merely that you can’t trust your pre-work and give yourself over to the act of performance. Well, this class is all about letting all of that go!
At the conclusion of this class students will:
- Perform with much more ease!
- Take direction comfortably — even make adjustments on the fly
- Better identify and take advantage of beats and rhythm in a scene/text
- Use these improv skills to find characters and experiment with voices
- Have learned a healthy, supportive mindset connected to their work
Improvisation for Voice Actors is a performance-based class, so please dress comfortably, have space to move, and be ready to play!
