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LAUREL van der LINDE has sat on all sides of the production table as talent agent, casting director, producer and director. Initially casting and directing interactive material for Mattel Toys and Landmark Entertainment, she then segued to the Tisherman Agency where she worked as an agent and founded their animation department, the first of its kind in LA. Her first love being audiobooks, Laurel has been producing and directing them over the last ten years working for such publishers as BBC AA, Hachette Audio (the former Time Warner), Brilliance Audio, Live Oak Media and McDougal/Littell. |
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BECKY BONAR has been a Radio Ranch hand since the early 80's when she came to Los Angeles from Houston, her native town. She is a noted voiceover actress and an alumna of the famed Groundlings improv troupe, as well as an award-winning commercial writer and producer. She has been a sought-after guest teacher in the top voiceover classes in the Los Angeles area, and is currently a booth director for the voice over department of The William Morris Agency. Becky continues to produce projects for the Radio Ranch. |
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CHRISTINE COYLE has helped shape the distinctive style of The Famous Radio Ranch since its founding with her writing and voiceover direction par excellence. With Dick Orkin, Christine has taught radio writing, performing and creativity workshops throughout the US, Germany, Belgium, and South Africa. The Story-Telling Method for voiceovers was developed out of Christine's award-winning partnership with Dick in the recording studio, and their reality-based approach to voiceover acting. |
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DICK ORKIN has been selected for membership in more broadcast Halls of Fame than any commercial writer/actor working in radio today. His distinctive voice, timing and humor have defined a brand of radio advertising, and shaped the signature sound of The Famous Radio Ranch. Dick's unique approach to voiceover acting has been refined into the Radio Ranch Story-Telling Method. Together with Christine Coyle, he has created hundreds of award-winning radio commercials, and taught seminars on advertising philosophy, writing and creativity throughout the US, Europe and Africa. |
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HARIS ORKIN has been an award-winning advertising writer and producer for twenty-five years. He's also a screenwriter who has penned scripts for Warner Brothers, Paramount, Fox, and MGM/UA. Most recently, he worked on a project for Walt Disney Feature Animation. Haris is also a successful writer and voiceover producer for the video game industry, and has collaborated on AAA titles for Atari, EA and Ubisoft. |
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ELIZA JANE SCHNEIDER has taught and recorded dialects all over England, Ireland, Scotland, Australia, both Islands of New Zealand, all 50 United States, South Africa, the West Indies, Russia, Israel, and France, to name a few. For five years, she voiced 8 Series Regular characters and hundreds of additional voices for Comedy Central’s hit animated series “South Park” and created multiple dialect characters for MTV’s animated series, “3 South”, NBC’s “King of the Hill,” Cartoon Network’s “Squirrel Boy,” the Mel Gibson film, “What Women Want,” and PIXAR’s smash feature, “Finding Nemo.” Founder of the “Eliza Doolittle Dialects” school, Ms. Schneider has been coaching actors for dialect roles in film and television in Hollywood since 1992. |
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