Voice, Dialects & Voice-Over for Actors & Others

This class will be individually-tailored based upon majority interest. With over a decade's worth of experience acting, writing, and doing voice-overs around the globe, I'm ready to share my knowledge and love for using "your instrument" properly to help you on-stage, in film, or within any number of media that the world of voice-over encompasses.

Here's some info about me. So, you can pick my brain, and we'll move forward to free your voice!

Michelle is a full-time voice-over artist, having studied Voice & Shakespeare with Patsy Rodenburg (Dame Judi Dench and Sir Ian McKellan’s vocal coach) and at the National Voice Intensive. She has also studied with Sergei Shentalinsky (whose teacher’s teacher was Stanislavski) at The School for Russian Art Theatre, in addition to dotcomming it in Chicago, whilst studying Meisner, and hitting the boards for the first time professionally, as an improv artist, and snotty, quasi-Brit, in David-Matthew Barnes’ world premiere of “And the Winner Is…”. Vocally, she has worked with such powerhouses as, EA Games, Microsoft, Big Fish Games, Humongous Entertainment, Atari Kids, Infogrames, McGraw Hill, AOL, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Colorado Lottery, Daylight Design, T-Mobile, and many, many more! Much of her voice-over work is bilingual, in Spanish and English. And, she’s been known to be quite the character, from 10-year old boys, to women who sound like Margaret Cho’s mom. A scholarship recipient and member of inaugural class of TheFilmSchool, Michelle promptly proceeded to pinch instructors’ asses whilst receiving her diploma. She can’t remember if this was before or after Tom Skerritt gave her a peck on the lips and called her, “Darlin’”, as she leaned against the Alibi Room’s bar.

Raised on a working cattle ranch on the edge of The Badlands, Michelle went on to live in Bogota, Barcelona, and Basque Country, later to motorcycle through over half a dozen contiguous nations along the Pan-American Highway. Her first formal introduction to the theatre was at Yale, where she created and chronicled an AIM-involved Lakota character, which, to her surprise, received rave reviews and murmurings amongst the Yale faculty. It was they who told her, that wherever she decided to move, she “must go somewhere where she can act”. As a result, she immediately drove to the Rocky Mountains with a gal from Maine whom she’d never met before, and “got pregnant” with her “seventh child” to be Edna Louise on stage in the Ed Graczyk modern classic, “Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean”. She has since focused her writing on rural-urban and cross-cultural themes, producing, writing, and directing such pieces for the stage on both coasts. In Los Angeles she worked commercially, on stage, and in voice-over, and was dubbed, “…a young Meryl Streep, but the funnier Meryl Streep, after she lightened up and started doing comedy”, by casting director, Craig Colvin. Judith Weston (“Directing Actors”, “The Film Director’s Intuition”) calls Michelle’s work, “…so brave…”. Hollywood writer/producer, NAACP Theatre and Emmy award-winning, Michael Ajakwe (TV Professor for the Bill & Camille Cosby-sponsored Guy Alexander Hanks/Marvin H. Miller TV & Screenwriting Fellowship Program at USC, “Eve”, “Moesha”, “Martin”, “Entertainment Tonight”), upon seeing her on stage, called her, and wrote, “…an amazing actress”. Josh Greenberg, Hollywood comedy writer for tv and film, says of her performance as Meryl Streep with the NPR-covered, “All About Walken, “…absolutely loved it..” that she, “…especially killed the crowd.…(figuratively, of course).”

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