Hear My Voice is a tele-conference led by a panel of Voice Over industry experts on how to build your audiobook business. The proceeds from this event will go directly to help relief efforts in Haiti.

Taking place on February 10, 2010 from approximately 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM EST, Hear My Voice will allow you to take part in a unique tele-conference featuring industry giants sharing their stories, advice, and perspective on making your way in the audiobook industry. The last 30 minutes of the conference will be opened up to audience questions!

Participants will be given a dial-in pin and an access code to attend the conference. After the discussion we will email all participants a link to download the audio, so they can replay it at home anytime.

All participants involved in the teleconference are asked to make a minimum donation of $25. Larger donations are encouraged. This donation will go directly to The Red Cross’s Haiti relief efforts, and it includes the conference, Q&A session, and access to the audio archive.

To donate and sign up for the conference, please click on the donate button and enter an amount of $25 or more. Once we receive your donation, we will e-mail you confirmation within 24 hours along with the conference call-in number, access code, and further instructions and information for the night of the tele-conference. Thank you for your donation! Please call 1-866-887-2834 if you have any questions.

The Tele-conference Panel Includes:*

• Co-Hosts David Goldberg & David Bourgeois

  David Goldberg and David Bourgeois have both built extensive careers in professional audio production, voice over production, and professional voice acting education. As founders of Edge Studios and Voice Coaches respectively, both strive to provide exceptional professionalism, integrity, and real-world perspective to their clients.

  Goldberg and Bourgeois also share strong concern over the recent life-changing events impacting Haiti. It is with this humanitarian goal in mind that Hear My Voice was born. It is the sincere hope of everyone involved that this tele-conference will bring support from voice actors around the world.

  All money raised by this event will be donated directly to the Red Cross to assist in the relief effort in Haiti.

• Alan Sklar

  Alan Sklar has been a freelance voice actor for over eighteen years, voicing radio/TV commercials and VNRs, narrating everything from audiobooks and documentaries to thousands of corporate and medical video projects.

  If you see a :15 TV spot with a scary deep-voiced announcer selling a new murder mystery, ("available wherever books are sold") it's probably Alan Sklar. Alan has been recruited to narrate over 100 audiobooks, among them, "A Civil Action" by Jonathan Harr, "Black Hawk Down" by Mark Bowden and the delightful 1898 yachtsman's classic, "Sailing Alone Around The World" by Cap'n Joshua Slocum. Other challenging audiobook assignments were, "The Kennedys: America's Emerald Kings" by Thomas Maier and the first Hannibal Lechter novel "Red Dragon" by Thomas Harris, both of which earned Alan the prestigious Earphone Awards from AudioFile Magazine. He narrated eight murder mystery novels by Lawrence Block, including "Enough Rope" (the 900-page mother of all audiobook detective story collections.)

  Alan has also narrated many of Sikorsky Aircraft's marketing and equipment maintenance videos. When the Generals in The Pentagon watch a video introducing a new Sikorsky helicopter model, you-know-who's doing the talking. NASA, too, produces videos to show Congress, The White House, and The Pentagon how they are spending taxpayer bucks. Alan was enlisted to narrate several of them.

  Voiceover work is Alan's second career. For twenty younger years he was a wholesaler distributor of paint and paint specialties in the NY Metro Market. When he and his partners sold the business, it employed 95 people. It was during his "paint period" that he discovered and developed his selling and marketing talents. He has often been overheard confiding that selling is more fun than acting, and often shares his marketing techniques with actors and freelancers in other industries in seminars which he leads.

• Carol Monda

  Carol Monda is a vocal artist, actor, and voice-over instructor at NYU. She has been seen on such stages as Manhattan Theatre Club, Perry Street Theatre, Arena Stage, HB Studio, The Shakespeare Theatre, The Kennedy Center, Woolly Mammoth, Ensemble Studio Theatre, The Charles Playhouse, Ford’s Theatre, and Classic Stage Company, where she voiced the premiere of American Opera Project’s Darkling and toured with the production in Poland and Germany.

  Stage roles include the Snow Queen at The Kennedy Center, Celimene in Roundhouse Theatre’s The Misanthrope, Limer in Morticians in Love (Helen Hayes Award Nomination), and Hillary in Albee Damned (Best Actress, SpotlightOn Award). Carol is a company member of Emerging Artists Theatre Company, where she was last seen in Real Danger, by Jeffrey Holloman. She is featured in the films Out of Season and The Gentleman. She was most recently seen as Dori Debray in The Diva Clause at Manhattan Theatre Source.

  Carol is a voice-over artist, documentary narrator, and two-time Audie Award-winning audio book narrator. She has recorded over 55 books and has read for Recorded Books, Harper Audio, Books on Tape, and Redwood Audio. She received her training at The American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City, Boston University Theatre Institute, and holds a BFA in Acting from The Catholic University.

• Grover Gardner

  Grover Gardner is one of America’s most popular and versatile audiobook narrators. He began his career in 1981 when he joined the staff of the "Talking Book" program at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. Since then he has recorded (under his own name and as "Alexander Adams" and "Tom Parker") over 650 commercial audiobook titles for such companies as Books On Tape, Recorded Books, Blackstone Audio, Random House Audio, Time Warner, Harper Audio, Listen & Live, Audio Renaissance, Audio Partners, McGraw-Hill Audio, Hovel Audio, and numerous others. In 1999 AudioFile, America’s leading journal of audiobook news and reviews, named Grover one of the "Best Voices of the Century," and now includes him in their annual "Golden Voices" roundup of top narration talent. Winner of over twenty AudioFile Earphones Awards, he is also the recipient of an Audio Publishers Association Audie Award, as well as a three-time finalist. Publishers Weekly named him "Audiobook Narrator of the Year" for 2005. His notable recordings include John Irving’s The Cider House Rules, Shelby Foote’s three-volume The Civil War, all eleven volumes of Will Durant’s The Story of Civilization, and Terry Brook’s novelization of George Lucas’ Star Wars: The Phantom Menace.

  In addition to his audiobook work, Grover has at various times been a professional actor, director and teacher. Since 1985 he has been a member of Washington, D.C.’s nationally-renowned Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company. He served as Resident Director at Everyman Theatre in Baltimore, Md. from 1995 to 2003. He is active in educational theater, directing student productions for local colleges and universities and teaching graduate-level courses in acting and voice-over work. He also conducted professional audiobook narration workshops through Edge Studio in New York City from 2002 to 2006. Currently he is Studio Director for Blackstone Audio in Ashland, Oregon.

  Grover grew up in Sewickley, Pa. and attended high school in Brussels, Belgium. He studied Theater and Art History at Rollins College in Florida and received a Master’s degree in Acting from George Washington University. He currently lives in Medford, Oregon with his "significant other," Tanya Perez, who runs her own audiobook proofing and research service. They have a daughter, Alicia Beth Gardner, born April 15th, 2003 and lovingly referred to as "our little tax deduction."

• Robin Miles

  With more than 200 audiobook titles and counting, Robin Miles seems to have been made for the Audiobook world and brings tremendous talent and experience to both sides of the glass. Her directing awards include an Audie, 2 Ben Franklins, several Audiofile Earphones, and many more award nominations. Her voice artistry has been chosen for Audiofile Magazine’s Best Voices of 2008 (fiction & non-fiction), Publishers Weekly Best Audio, several Earphones Awards, Best of the Best Kids Audio, and several Ala Notable Books. She has worked for BBC Audiobooks America, Hachette, Harper Audio, McMillan Audio, Penguin, Live Oak Media, Benchmark, and several educational producers.

  In addition to her audiobook awards, her acting credits range from Broadway and regional theater to feature and documentary film to Primetime TV and soaps; even the coveted Collected Shorts of Symphony Space and NPR Radio. Listen closely, and you'll hear her voice in the American Museum of Natural History, conducting internet-based sexual harassment training, imparting New York's legal codes for visually impaired lawyers and in dozens of feature films, TV shows and radio spots.

  Producers often seek her out for her impressive ability to handle accents and multiple characters. Whether lightly nuanced or with definite presence, her characters’ speech reflects age, social and educational background, rooting them naturally into the textual landscape. Robin attributes her affinity for language, firstly, to her grandfather, a highly regarded English teacher and scholar, and secondly, to the New Jersey hometown that exposed her to an array of different cultures and accents. "I grew up around a lot of 1st generation immigrants; Jewish, Irish, Cuban, Egyptian, Italian, German, Chinese and Vietnamese families all lived on my block," she recalls. "I sat in their kitchens, listening to their stories and accents, enjoying their cooking and soaking up their different cultures."

  An accent specialist with a love of language and literature, she coaches and directs in a way both actors and laypersons immediately understand. Before beginning her own teaching studio, Voxpertise™, she was Assistant Professor of speech for SUNY Purchase Conservatory of Theater, taught acting at the Neighborhood Playhouse, ESL at Kaplan's NY International Center, and coached upper level managers for Merrill Lynch. She holds a BA in Theater Studies from Yale University, an MFA in acting from the Yale School of Drama and a certificate from the British American Drama Academie Summer Program at Oxford.

• Barbara Rosenblat

  Barbara Rosenblat is a New York actress/singer with numerous performance credits both here and in the U.K.

  She is also one of the most sought after and beloved narrators of Audiobooks in the country. Her extraordinary range of accents and characterizations in a distinguished body of work (more than 400 titles to date) has earned her 6 coveted Audie Awards from the Audio Publishers Association. The Audies are the industry's Oscar and Barbara has won more of them than any female narrator. She has also just won the Odyssey Medal from the American Library Assoc. for best produced children's audiobook of 2010. The industry watchdog publication, Audiofile Magazine has named her one of their 'Golden Voices' and a 'Voice of the Twentieth Century'. Barbara has also won 40 'Golden Earphone Awards' for superior recordings.

  In the UK, Barbara has appeared in London's West End theatre, worked for the BBC, British film and television and performed in two highly regarded shows at the Edinburgh Festival. On Broadway, Barbara created the role of 'Mrs. Medlock' is the Tony Award winning musical 'The Secret Garden'.She also served as production dialect coach for the Broadway run and the subsquent national tour. She returned to Broadway in the critically acclaimed revival of Eric Bogosian's dark comedy 'Talk Radio' starring Liev Schreiber. She recently opened off B'way as the all singing, all dancing Gertrude Stein in the new musical '27 Rue de Fleurus' at Urban Stages.

  On TV, Barbara has appeared on 'Law and Order SVU' and 'Guiding Light'. She has voiced numerous documentaries, commercials and museum tours. Billboard Magazine has said that Barbara Rosenblat 'is spoken of with the same reverence and affection that the music industry reserves for Frank Sinatra and the Beatles. Barbara has legions of fans worldwide and is delighted to reply to every letter that come to the website. The extraordinary range of material that Barbara has voiced over the years led one critic to say, 'Barbara is to audiobooks what Meryl Streep is to film'.

• Debbie Munroe

  With over 15 years in broadcasting, animation, freelance voicing, acting both on and off camera, casting & production, Debbie Munro offers unique perspectives into the Voice-Over & Entertainment industry. Trained by some of the industry’s best known and respected names, Debbie combines her knowledge and experience as a talent, coach and producer to spread her passion for this amazing industry.

  Working internationally as a full-time voice performer, host/speaker, producer & director, Debbie has been a featured presenter for numerous Voice Over educational events. Her credits include the 2009 Gemini Awards Announcer, Pirates of the Caribbean – Armada of the Damned, Global television’s True Pulp Murder series, Mai in DragonBall and Dragon Ball GT, and Deb’s signature voice, roving reporter Karla Karumba in the international hit animated series, Benjamin Bluemchen. Some of Deb’s current voice projects include; Busy Town, Sony, Ford, Canon, HP, US Coast Guard, Subway, Nissan, the Juno Awards, Tempurpedic, Air Campaign, Canada Post, Alberta Dairy, Booster Juice, BMW, Michelin, BC health and other major projects.

• Dan Bostick

  Dan Bostick is Artistic Director of one of the nation’s premier audio book recording companies, Full Cast Audio. Dan spends his days preparing for, casting, and directing audio book productions of family-friendly classics. Using a "full cast" of characters to voice each book, Dan and his company have been singled out and awarded for their excellence.

• John Marshall Cheary

  John Cheary is an experienced entrepreneur and the CEO of two audio production companies: John Marshall Sound, Inc. and Paul Ruben Productions, Inc. John has produced a wide array of high-quality spoken word audio programs, including GRAMMY AWARD winning and nominated projects, the most recent of which was the final Harry Potter Book, The Deathly Hallows.

  John received his Bachelor of Music specializing in Music Production and Engineering from Berklee College of Music in Boston, where he was one of the top students. He moved to New York immediately after graduation, and found work in many of New York's best recording studios, quickly becoming an in-demand digital audio editor operating out of his apartment. This was the start of John Marshall Sound, Inc., which is now-- with twelve employees -- the world's largest independent producer of audio books. John Marshall Sound is the exclusive audio production house for Random House Audio, Macmillan Audio and Paul Ruben Productions, as well as a prefered vender to many other top audio publishers. JMS regularly works with celebrities like Richard Gere, Bill Clinton, Barbara Walters, Felisha Reshad, Al Franken, Tom Brokaw, Genine Gerilaflo, etc.

  John recently acquired Paul Ruben Productions, Inc. a leader in producing the audio components for language teaching programs. PRP has produced programs in over thirty different languages for the industry's top language education publishers: McGraw Hill, Macmillan ESL/ELT, Berlitz, Cengage.

• Marc Cashman

  Marc is one of the few voice-acting instructors in the U.S. who is on "both sides of the glass"—as a Clio-winning Radio and TV commercial producer, casting director and copywriter, and as a working voice actor. Marc was voted one of the Best Voices of the Year by AudioFile Magazine, and has also won the Listen Up! Award from Publishers Weekly, plus three Earphones awards from AudioFile. A veteran voice actor with over 25 years of studio experience and over 60 audiobooks to his credit, he has been heard locally, regionally, nationally and internationally on Radio, TV, film, documentaries, radio plays, video games and audio books. He has voiced thousands of Radio and TV commercials, dubbed foreign films, narrated dozens of audio books, and created the voices of many CD-Rom, online and videogame characters. Marc is currently represented by the Osbrink Agency in Los Angeles, California, plus many other local talent agencies around the country. He brings a high level of professionalism, humor, energy and creativity to every voice acting session.

  As President and Creative Director of Cashman Commercials/L.A., Marc creates and produces copy and music advertising for radio and television. His client roster includes Kroger, Charles Schwab, Quizno's, Pella Windows and Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer among many, many others. Over the past fifteen years, Marc has won over 150 local, regional, national and international advertising awards, which include the ADDY, IBA, SUNNY (So. California Broadcasters), INTERNATIONAL RADIO FESTIVAL OF NY, SILVER MICROPHONE, LOS ANGELES BELDING, LONDON INT'L ADVERTISING, and the prestigious CLIO, on behalf of hundreds of ad agencies and clients across the country.

  Marc is a guest speaker at dozens of Advertising Clubs and Broadcasters Associations throughout the U.S. and other countries. Listed in Who's Who in California, he's been interviewed in many trade magazines and newspapers and on numerous radio and television programs. In 2009, one of his podcasts was featured in the UNESCO Open Training Platform (which has training resources for UN agencies, governments and NGOs).

MORE TO BE ANNOUNCED!

*Guests subject to change.

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