MARC CASHMAN
www.CashmanCommercials.com
Presenting:
VOICE ACTING – How To Sound Like You’re Not Reading
Have you noticed that the directions for virtually every VO script ask the performer to be “conversational,” yet the copy is anything but? My presentation reveals the techniques behind sounding conversational, and shows you how you can instantly turn stilted, un-conversational copy into a believable performance.
Career training level: all
About Marc Cashman:
Marc Cashman is one of the few people in the commercial production business on “both sides of the glass”—as an award-winning radio and TV commercial producer, as well as a working voice actor.
President and creative director of Cashman Commercials, Marc creates and produces music and copy advertising for radio and television. In the past 25 years, Marc has won more than 150 local, regional, national and international advertising awards, including the prestigious CLIO, on behalf of hundreds of ad agencies and clients across the country.
Voted (three times!) as one of the “Best Voices of the Year” by AudioFile magazine, Marc is a veteran voice actor with more than 25 years of studio experience in radio and TV commercials, foreign film dubbing, animated series, and interactive, online and video games. He has also narrated more than 100 audiobooks.
In addition to his production work, Marc is an adjunct professor at California Institute of the Arts, and instructs all levels of voice acting in his classes known as The Cashman Cache of Voice-Acting Techniques, in Los Angeles. He coaches voice actors
worldwide, produces VO demos, and writes a blog called Ask the Voice Cat, for NowCasting.com and VoiceOverXtra.com.
Marc is also a guest speaker at advertising clubs and broadcasters’ associations throughout the U.S. and other countries, and was the keynote speaker and master class instructor at VOICE 2008, 2010 and 2012, the international voice over conventions held in Los Angeles.
Marc is currently represented by Idiom Talent Agency in Los Angeles, plus many other talent agencies around the country.