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CUSTOMIZED TO YOU : We have all ►Beginner ►Pro talent and ►Intermediate tracks, all training completely customized to you.
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All-Access Pass and on-Mic Coaching:
The main benefit of an All-Access Pass is Core Training, which includes:
- The preparatory "Success Checklist" workshop;
- Training 4 times on-mic with 4 different coaches;
- Learn "in-studio" by viewing a dozen or more other training sessions;
- Participating in the backstage Q&A and networking event.
- Improv warmup before lunch.
On-Mic Coaching:
With an All-Access Pass, your first coach and engineer will take you through a private, 1-on-1 session with scripts and approaches customized to your goals. Your second coach and engineer will help you use what you’ve learned in your second 1-on-1 session of the day, this time as part of small group other students at a similar level to your own.
You’ll stay with your small group for your final sessions of the day with a third and fourth coach, where you will perform both 1-person and multi-person spots to help you hone your real person skills—"authenticity"— the most important skill to help you win auditions and/or get represented in the Twin Cities market and elsewhere.
And More:
If you'd like to warmup early, come at 11am for the Morning Improv. Definitely stick around after your last on-mic session for the 5pm Backstage Networking and Q&A with all your pros and an additional, special guest pro. Finally, stick around for the Networking dinner if you've got time and keep the conversation going, no purchase necessary. |
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FREE EVENTS: Availability and Options
Some non-coaching events such as the Backstage Networking and Q&A offer a limited number of free tickets until they sell out.
To attend Free Events ONLY, you must use the gray registration button and enter code FREEONLY. (All events, including free events, are included in the blue button ALL-Access Pass.) For more information, click here to skip down to the full schedule of events, or click to read about any single session Free event:
However, attendees with a Free Event ticket may add a private 1-on-1 coaching session (was $50, now just $35) until they sell out
1-SESSION OPTION ($35): Register on the Free Events Only page, but Under "Choose your Sessions..." select "Recorded private 1-on-1 EXTRA training session" (even though you are on the Free Events registration page, coaching is a paid option).
1 SESSION ALTERNATIVE ($45): Want to join a small group with a particular coach or at a particular time? Let us know what you're looking for and we'll try to accomodate you! Call 612-605-8843 with any questions.
FAQ • Directions • About our Coaches |
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Full Schedule
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Need to come late or leave early? No problem!
AVAILABLE CHECK IN TIMES
► Full Day … ►ARRIVE BETWEEN 9 and 9:30am (4-9 Recorded Training Sessions Available)
Join us in the morning (late arrivals welcome!) for the 9:30 Improv Gameshop to have fun and get rid of performance tension..
► Partial Day … ►ARRIVE BY 11:00 (4-7 Recorded Training Sessions Available)
Arrive by 11:00 to get the most on-mic coaching sessions possible with a late arrival
Get prepped for your sessions wiht the Success Checklist Workshops
► After Lunch … ►ARRIVE BY 12:30 pm (4-5 Recorded Training Sessions Available)
After lunch arrivals still get the main CORE training: FOUR recorded studio coaching sessions; learn "in-studio" by viewing a dozen or more other training sessions, plus full backstage and networking event access. But you miss the Success Checklist workshop.
► Custom Schedule … ►Contact us for a special schedule
Any schedule is possible, event single sessions with select coaches,
AVAILABLE CHECK OUT TIMES
► Early …… ►STAY UNTIL 3:30 (or later )
We will adapt your last session on mic to make sure you get full mic time and full benefit from your last sessions.
► Standard … ►STAY UNTIL 6:30pm (or later)
You should be able to catch all or most of the Backstage Networking and Q&A event if you stay later than 6 pm.
► Evening … ►STAY FOR DINNER (starts 6:45)
You should be able to continue the Backstage Networking and Q&A event with us over Dinner at the Marriott Boundary Waters Restaurant.
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How Your Training is Fully Customized to You |
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Your training will be custom-fit to your goals and abilities whether you're a beginner or an old pro.
Once you click the link in your confirmation email and complete the intake survey, we'll begin:
- Selecting scripts and choosing coaches for your studio sessions;
- Planning how you will be coached and evaluated on mic;
- Matching you in small groups with other talent of similar ability.
"Structured to my specific needs by
amazing professional instructors.
The entire day was wonderfully
organized,
information packed, and FUN!
I'm ready to do my demo now!"
– Jan E.
► Improv for Everyone: Inspiration & Warmup |
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Open to all, no experience necessary. (Click here for the main page about improv.) Professional voiceover artists begin creating their performances with no rehearsal, often just minutes after seeing copy for the first time. We'll show you how having fun can benefit your performance, and give you techniques you can use to warm up before your next paying gig!
If you'd like to come ONLY to this event, click here and apply code FREEONLY on the Free Events Only registration form, then choose the 11:00AM-12:10PM Improv "Gameshop" event when you check out
"The morning improv really improved my performance on mic later.
"I thought I would be nervous but it was simply a LOT of fun!"
– Robert G .
Checklist for Success and Acting Warmup |
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Learn tricks of the pros in this workshop, such as how to create an authentic read just moments after first seeing a script; how to find a dozen new ways to say the same thing while still sounding natural; secrets of commercial emphasis such as the "double hit;" and much, much more, including some fun warmups, what agents look for, secrets of getting clients to ask for you without an audition. Workshop includes getting on mic to practice techniques in simulated performance.
"Best workshop I've ever attended on any subject. Recommended for anyone.
"No time is wasted. I went away having learned a lot and I wanted more."
–Karen J.
Studio Sessions Recorded with 4 Different Coaches |
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  Sessions: 1:30-2:45 • 2:55-4:00 • 4:10-4:50
The main event: Getting coached and recorded by 4-5 pros throughout the day. (Learn more about what you'll be doing here.) Your first coach and engineer will take you through a private, 1-on-1 session with scripts and approaches customized to your goals.
Then your next coach and engineer will help you use what you’ve learned in your second 1-on-1 session of the day, this time as part of small group other students at a similar level to your own. You’ll stay with your small group for your final sessions of the day with a third and fourth coach, where you will perform both 1-person and multi-person spots to help you hone your real person skills—"authenticity"— the most important skill to help you win auditions and/or get represented in the Twin Cities market and elsewhere.
"I cannot imagine how anyone could succeed without a workshop like this.
" The perspectives & tips from multiple coaches was
excellent — I learned more than I thought I would.
"I highly recommend this workshop and want to do it again."
–Steve B.
► Backstage: Networking and Q&A with Top Pros |
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Spend over an hour with several top working talent, coaches and agents: ask questions, hear how to succeed, etc. Bring-a-friend encouraged. Visit our pro coaches page to learn all about the top folks who will be coaching or available at the backstage event.
If you'd like to come ONLY to this event, click here and apply code FREEONLY on the Free Events Only registration form, then choose the Backstage Pass and Q&A with the Pros event when you check out.
"Learned what my last coach DIDN'T teach me.
"Getting in front of several successful voice over talents and coaches was invaluable."
–David O.
► Networking Dinner (no purchase necessary) |
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  ? Full menu and Prices
Join us for dinner in the Marriott Boundary Waters restaurant to keep the conversation going with pros, talent and new friends alike.
While there is no purchase necessary to come and talk, there is an a la carte menu available, dinner salads start at $8.95, and stir fry from $9.95. The dinner event is what many talent tell us keeps them coming back to the Expo year after year.
Talent Evaluation Followup |
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This now includes your fifth coaching session. During your follow up consultation after the workshop, you'll get suggestions for home practice techniques, next steps and tips for evaluating the audio of your performances recorded by our engineers from your work on mic. (Be sure to continue practicing at home while everything is still fresh!)
"Got an agent and made $3,000 on my first job!
“The training significantly improved my performance."
–Tom S.
► Questions?
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