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BECKY BONAR (School Director) has been a Radio Ranch hand since the early '80's when she arrived in Los Angeles from her native Houston. She is herself a noted voice over 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 voice over classes in the Los Angeles area, and served for two years as a booth director for the voice over department of The William Morris Agency. She developed the curriculum for the School of Voice over Acting in collaboration with Dick Orkin and Christine Coyle, the creative forces behind the Radio Ranch and originators of the Story-Telling Method. |
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CHRISTINE COYLE has helped shape the distinctive style of The Famous Radio Ranch since its founding, with her writing and voice over direction par excellence. She is also Creative Director of the Ranch, and as such oversees the scheduling, brainstorming and writing of all Radio Ranch commercials. 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 voice overs 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 voice over 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 voice-over producer for the video game industry, and has collaborated on AAA titles for Atari, EA and Ubisoft. |
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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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Matthew Walters is a Certified Hypnotherapist, Certified Practitioner of NLP and Therapeutic Imagery. Before that he spent 15 years in voiceover working as a casting director at The Voicecaster, Sight n Sound Casting and as the top vo casting director in San Francisco at Voicetrax, SF. At Voicetrax he taught hundreds of students the ins and outs of the voiceover industry and taught his own class in Los Angeles. As an actor Matthew worked on stage, in film and commercials and voiced projects for radio and TV commercials, CD-Rom games, Audio Tours and Industrials as a member of all three acting unions. At a crossroads in his life he discovered hypnosis and it changed his life. After graduating with honors from the Hypnosis Motivation Institute, the nation's only accredited school of Hypnotherapy, he has taught workshops at HMI and for the American Hypnosis Association. Matthew now teaches workshops in and around Los Angeles and sees private clients at his office in Sherman Oaks. |
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