Trends in Commercial Work
Is there a contemporary commercial sound? We’ll discuss prevailing expectations among industry leaders. We’ll explore delivery styes specific to products and services, and how to create your own commercial signature inside and outside these trends. 

Prepping
What’s involved in optimal preparation? We’ll practice exercises of the blank slate, text mapping and varying your reads. We’ll begin to establish a prep process that works for you.

Sourcing Auditions
How do you land the chance to be heard, and increase the amount of times that happens? We’ll walk through resources and research techniques. We’ll cover commercial demo guidelines and how to design and craft a demo that showcases your unique talents.

Delivery and Direction
How and how much is delivery informed by direction? We’ll review and record copy in major commercial genres with and without specs. We’ll learn to incorporate direction through our own interpretation. We’ll investigate the 2nd take, and make alternative choices organically.

Carol Monda is a veteran actor of stage, TV and film, and a voiceover artist whose clients include Turner Classic Movies, McDonald’s, Discovery ID, The Guggenheim, NY Historical Society, HSBC, Red Cross, CitiCorp, and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. She is also an Audie-Award winning audiobook narrator of over 450 titles across many genres. She has designed and led classes in acting, voice and speech, scene study, audition techniques, text analysis, accent reduction, audiobook narration and a broad range of commercial and narrative voiceover. Carol has been an adjunct professor in both commercial voiceover and narration at NYU’s Digital Design and Film School and has taught Voice and Speech III at NYU’s Tisch School for the Arts. Currently, she coaches, teaches classes and directs VO demos.  Carol is a member of Actors’ Equity Assn and Sag-Aftra, where she serves on its National Audiobook Steering Committee.