Pat Fraley Weekend Workshops

VOU is pleased to offer special Chicago pricing for Pat’s workshops which is much lower than what is normally offered on the east and west coast. So don’t miss this opportunity to take advantage of these specially priced outstanding and unique workshops.

Even gurus need gurus and multi-talented, Pat Fraley is one of mine. So it is with great pleasure and excitement that VOU can present the high-caliber workshop events in Chicago that Pat Fraley teaches on both coasts. Learn the tricks of the voice over business that no one else in the country teaches from a highly successful Hollywood pro…an award-winning insider who understands what it takes to find success and maintain it in today’s changing global market.

Pat truly loves teaching and sharing the knowledge that his 34 years of experience have garnered. His teaching style is warm, friendly, and real...never intimidating. This is an amazing opportunity to work and interface with Pat Fraley in Chicago.

Experience two entirely different one-day events both extremely important and beneficial to realizing a successful career in the voice over industry. With only 12 spaces available, early enrollment is advisable to assure your place in these workshops.

Here's what other fellow performers have to say about Pat:

Ed Asner: "If you're ready for an audio version of Cirque du Soleil, look no further than Pat Fraley."

Mark Hamill: "One of the most talented actors I've ever worked with."

Gary Owens: "I've worked with Pat Fraley for many years doing cartoons and commercials. He is, without a doubt, the greatest character actor in the seat in front of me."

 

56 Slick Tricks For Voice Over:
How to Audition and Book the Job

Pat Fraley Teaches
Saturday, May 17
10am-6pm

> Enroll Now!

This event is nothing but PRACTICAL, created to teach you methods, skills, techniques, agendas, mind-sets and down-right dirty tricks that will advance your voice over career. This event has been designed to arm you with the weapons to meet the bone-crunching national competition of 2008.

Event Highlights:

• Improve your "audition to booking" ratio with slating and auditions tricks.
• Record your efforts while you get practical and precise direction and instruction.
• Learn methods that yield evocative, unique choices, keep you working WAY outside the box.
• Get the inside info on how to seek, achieve, and maintain a relationship with an agent.
• Attain effective self-direction skills.
• Learn how to play chess with your career, not checkers.
• Learn how to stay “in the moment” with your acting.
• Includes Event Workbook, and your recorded tracks.

The Great Chicago Character Voice Event

                                                  Pat Fraley Teaches
Sunday, May 18
10am-6pm

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Based on the only character voice curriculum in the country that has been accredited at the university level, the methods, skills and techniques will prepare you for character voice application in ANIMATION, INTERACTIVE, COMMERCIALS, and AUDIOBOOKS.

After working with Pat, Chicago’s own Joe Mantegna said, "In the world of character voices, Patrick Fraley is simply the best."

Nancy Cartwright, voice of Bart Simpson & a private student stated, "Pat NEVER disappoints. His techniques cover everything the pros in the industry expect you to know, but nobody else teaches."

Event Highlights:

• Learn how to break the character voice down and manipulate the six elements for versatility and separation.
• Create unique, evocative character voices from visual, oral, and written sources.
• Learn to develop the critical “Psychological Agendas” for your characters.
• Identify Character Archetypes, the "Casting Common Denominator" for Interactive, Commercials and Animation.
• Includes Event Workbook, and your recorded tracks.

WHEN AND WHERE FOR BOTH WORKSHOPS:

Take Both and Save $100!

Time: 10:00 am - 6:00 pm

Place: Radio City Recording   
            445 E. Ohio  Suite #360 
            Chicago, IL        
Studio Phone:
312-832-1962

Sherri's Cell:  312-933-7338 

About Pat Fraley - Voice Talent / Producer / Teacher / Actor / Author

Pat has more slashes between his careers than Jack the Ripper. He has been at it for 34 years, including creating voices for over 4000 characters placing him among the top ten performers of all time to be cast in animated programs. Most recently, Patrick supplied voices for feature length movies, Wild Hogs, College Road Trip, The Spiderwick Chronicles, and I Am a Legend. In addition, he just finished producing and voicing a series of audiobooks for children, called, Run, Rasputin, Run.

Pat began his career after receiving his MFA in acting from Cornell University. He spent his early professional years in Australia where he learned the craft of creating voices, supplying characters for many radio commercials and programming for the Australia Broadcast Commission.

After several years in Seattle as a creative director for an ad agency, Pat moved to Los Angeles, where he has lived for the past 28 years. He is a member of The Voice and Speech Trainers of America, and holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in Professional Acting from Cornell University.


Director: Sherri Berger
VOU: 773-774-9886
Fax: 773-774-9555
Email Address: voiceoveru@sherriberger.com
Mailing Address: 6809 N. Wildwood, Chicago, IL 60646