Zoom: ADVANCED Online ANIMATION VOICE OVER Intensive with Dawn Hershey CSA, Casting Director

Thursday, December 19, 2024, 8pm ET / 5pm PT

Here's your chance to work with Animation Casting Director Dawn Hersey!

Her clients include Warner Bros., Renegade Animation, Amazon Studios, Unicorn Studios, MARZA Animation, and SGH Productions. 

Fun credits include “The New Looney Tunes Show”, “The New Tom and Jerry Show” and “Scooby-Doo and Guess Who”. 

She is keeping very busy with an independent animated feature due out in 2025, as well as doing private coaching through SkillsHub. She also just finished casting TWO animated features and a few direct to videos.

In this advanced animation VO intensive, she'll give you the tools you need to connect and make firm committed choices to BOOK more roles in animation!

Dawn will have you focus on:

- Audition Technique

- How to give your best take(s)

- What not to do

- Ins and Outs

- and more!

Dawn will review what needs to be improved, as well as the positive traits that would help you fit into this exciting market!

What to Prepare:

Please prepare one role from Dawn's Animation VO copy to work on in this intensive.

Please update your headshot and resume as needed on your online profile upon registration. 

Please follow the procedures listed below:

• Please update your headshot and fill out the MY INFO section of your AC account upon registration.

• Arrive at least 10 MINUTES before your event is slated to start. Your host will give important information about the event at this time.

• Instructions and the ZOOM link for access to this online event will be emailed to you in advance. If you have not received the link by 12pm (EST) the day-of the event, please reach out to registration@actorsconnection.com at least one hour PRIOR to the start of class.

**Actors Connection classes and programming are for ADULTS (18+). With permission, some teens (14+) are allowed to take adult programming. To inquire about getting permission, please send an email to: info@actorsconnection.com**

**No recording of any kind is permitted by participants during class.**

**Please keep in mind that all programs at Actors Connection are for educational and professional development purposes. Participating in any class or event is not a promise of employment.**

Dawn Hershey-Lopes

After attending 3 different universities (San Diego State, La Universidad Catolica in Santiago Chile and California State University Chico). Dawn graduated with a Spanish major and a Theatre Arts minor from CSUC. 

She moved to Los Angeles in 1995 and started working at Nickelodeon Animation Studios. There, she worked her way up through the ranks from Receptionist to Casting Assistant, Casting Coordinator, Casting Supervisor, and finally Casting Director. She joined the Casting Society of America (CSA) in 1999 and has been a full time Casting Director ever since.

From Nickelodeon she moved on to Icebox.com in 2000 where she was hired as the Executive Director of Casting, to cast and record over 50 animated shorts for the internet. Then the dot com bubble burst and she and her tech-geek pals all wheeled their Aeron chairs out to our cars, loaded 'em up, and started looking for the next thing.

From Icebox she went on to co-found Blindlight in 2001 (A production services company for the videogame industry) and for 7 years oversaw all of the voice-over production. Casting voices for videogames allowed her to create, develop and hone her amazing organizational systems for casting large quantities of characters in short amounts of time. 

While holding down full time jobs at each of these companies, she continued to build her freelance career in Television and Feature film animation. Her current clients include Warner Bros., Renegade Animation, Amazon Studios, Unicorn Studios, MARZA Animation, and SGH Productions. Fun credits include “The New Looney Tunes Show” , “The New Tom and Jerry Show” and “Scooby-Doo and Guess Who”. 

She is keeping very busy with an independent animated feature due out in 2025, as well as doing private coaching through SkillsHub.

Follow this link to view her credits on IMDb