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The Hear Now Festival began life back in 1979 as the Midwest Radio Theatre Workshop. More than four decades later, workshops remain central to our mission. Now established as a program of NATF separate from the Hear Now Festival, Hear Learn workshops carry this tradition of education for the audio fiction community into the 21st century.
National Audio Theatre Festivals, Inc. (NATF) is pleased to announce our latest workshop, Hear Learn: Voice for Games, with instructors Bonnie Bogovich and Alexander Brandon
Join two award-winning voice and audio artists for an introduction to voice in the video game industry.
Through a combination of lectures, group discussion, and attendee participation, our instructors will lead the class through various uses of voiceover in video games, past and present. You’ll engage with the instructors for critique and feedback to hone your acting and directing skills, and there’ll be an ongoing discussion and Q&A about building and maintaining relationships with directors, writers, casting sources, game teams, and more. From creating or auditioning for a casting post, to what to do once the sessions are wrapped up, we will discuss all the skills you need to keep engaged in the profession.
Student: $100
Kansas City Resident: $125
Regular Admission: $195
Alexander Brandon is a game audio veteran with twenty-seven years of experience and over one hundred titles, among them the soundtracks for such hits as “Unreal” and “Deus Ex,” and voiceover for games such as “DC Universe Online,” “Skyrim,” and the voice of Obi Wan Kenobi for Star Wars Force Band. He has served on the steering committee of the IA-SIG and as the vice president of the Game Audio Network Guild. Currently audio director for Frost Giant Studios, he now owns his own audio production house in Georgetown, TX, “Funky Rustic,” and distributes music through Bandcamp, releasing an album every now and again.
Bonnie Bogovich is a voice and audio artist on a variety of video game, educational, and static, episodic, and interactive audio drama projects. In addition to voice acting, she also sings and has performed in operatic, choral, and musical ensembles, and has been featured on video game tribute albums and soundtracks. She resides these days in Austin, TX, working on projects via her audio production company BlackCatBonifide LLC. Recent projects include: “Space Punks,” “Death and Taxes,” “The Call of the Flame,” “Cosmonious High,” and “Piper’s Pet Cafe.”