CLASSES

INTERMEDIATE VO and DEMO PREP CLASS
Taught by Nina Pratt,CD at Grey Advertising and Linda Weaver, Co-Owner of Access Talent.

This class is offered only to actors with some experience in VO. Based on the professional booking process, this class will prep you to make your demo by taking you from agent, to casting director, and finally to producer. Class participation is based on the approval of Nina & Linda.

*Shut Up & Talk will produce and direct your demo at a reduced rate of $800 for a 1 1/2 minute demo.

The next 6-week session begins October 29th, 2008.
The class meets Wednesday's, from 6:30pm – 8:30pm.
The cost is $600.

To register, call 212-252-0552 or e-mail training@shutupandtalk.com.

Nina Pratt - Nina began her career in casting with CSA in Los Angeles, where she worked on numerous feature film and television projects. She has continued working not only in film and television, but also in theater since returning to New York. She has been on staff at Grey Worldwide for nine years and has cast hundreds of voice-overs for such clients as: Proctor & Gamble, Olive Garden and Dairy Queen, to name a few. Nina was the staff casting director at The Ensemble Studio Theater for five seasons where she had the opportunity to work with playwrights such as Romulus Linney, Paul Rudnik, Will Scheffer, and David Mamet. She, along with her partner, Kim Moarefi, did the casting for The Exonerated, which ran at The Culture Project for two years, as well as the touring company and the film, for which she received an Artios Award in 2003. She most recently worked on Celebrity Charades, produced by Bob Balaban and Trigger Street Independent, which will air on American Movie Classics in June. She also just completed casting a new film starring Susan Sarandon and Ralph Fiennes, Bernard & Doris.

Linda Weaver - Over twenty-five years ago, Linda Weaver began her career as a voice-over agent as the assistant to Angela Dipene at Cunningham, Escott & Dipene. One of her duties was to record all in-office auditions, which were then being done on reel-to-reel. It was there that Linda learned "actor speak" and how to get a good performance out of an actor. After five years with CED, Linda moved to J. Michael Bloom as the co-head of the voice-over department. Thirteen years at Bloom ended with the demise of Bloom. Then Access Talent, an agency specializing in voice-over and spoken word representation was born. Linda is co-owner with Chas Cowing. Access Talent was formed in 1999 and remains one of the few boutique agencies in NYC. Teaching and coaching actors has always been a love of Linda's.