The Voice Shop Coaches

MikeG.jpg

Michael George has literally “done it all” when it comes to voice over. Mike founded One Destiny Productions in 1998. He has been an engineer, mixer, producer, director, casting professional, voice actor and of course a teacher. Michael's unique background allows him to approach the craft of voice acting with a more holistic sensibility. He believes the most important role of a voice over teacher is to help actors find their most authentic voice. Michael's voice has been heard all over the world - his credits include Evian, Kia, Hilton, Dannon, Coca Cola, Disney, Motorola, The NBA, KRAFT and Citibank.

PeteR.jpg

Pete Rohan Is an audio engineer, audiobook producer/director and owner of Rohan Audio, an independent studio in NYC. He produces high quality audiobooks, provides consultations for home studio design, and develops and teaches workshops on home studio production. Pete is proud to have produced several audiobooks that have received or have been nominated for Audie and AudioFile Earphone Awards, including In Harm's Way: The Sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis and the Extraordinary Story of Its Survivors; and Capital Offenses: Business Crime and Punishment in America's Corporate Age.

Steve-Tardio.jpg

Steve Tardio is a SAG-AFTRA professional voiceover artist with over 10 years of training and experience.  Steve’s unique sound brought him into the world of voicing animated characters for animated shows/features, commercials, promos, audiobooks and video games.  Steve’s credits include Disney Channel, Nickelodeon, Harper-Audio, Fisher-Price Toys, Dannon Yogurt, Pepsi, Ford Motor Company, NBC-TV, Food Network, NBA-TV and Vevo.com. Steve feels improv is an important tool to have in your “voiceover actor belt”, especially in the world of animation, so Steve has been studying, coaching and performing long form and musical improv on various teams in NYC; with training from the Second City-Chicago, the Upright Citizens Brigade, the Peoples Improv Theater, Chicago City Limits and the Magnet Theater.  Steve is also a musician and has played “Paul” in Beatles tribute bands! 

PiperG.jpg

Piper Goodeve is an actress, director, and audiobook narrator who splits her time between Brooklyn and Vermont. An Audie Award and Earphones Award winner, she has recorded over 250 titles, including works by Neil deGrasse Tyson, Kelly Rimmer, and Meg Cabot. She records full time for both indie authors and major publishers, including Harper Collins, Simon & Schuster, Macmillan, Blackstone, Tantor, and Audible Studios. Passionate about the craft of storytelling, Piper has taught narration at CAST at Ripley-Grier, the Weston Playhouse, ACX University, Syracuse University, and regularly guest teaches at Stonestreet Studios at NYU/Tisch School of the Arts. She has directed numerous titles for Audible Studios, including Race, Sex and Robots read by Amandla Stenberg (The Hate U Give) as well as producing/directing the audiobook #SOBLESSED, read by a full cast of Broadway stars, including Alan Cumming and Brian Dennehy. She holds an MFA from Brown University/Trinity Rep.

 
Jessica Schechter

Jessica Schechter is the Director of Education for The Voice Shop as well as a professional voice over talent in NYC. She has an MFA in Directing from the Actors Studio Drama School and a Bachelors degree in Educational Theatre from NYU. She has voiced spots for Samsung, Schneider Electric, Veet, Amazon, Kodak, PBS, and more. Jessica is a director member of The Actors Studio's playwright director's unit and teaches theater and public speaking. Jessica is co-producing and acting in the comedic web series "Soon By You".  She is very excited to be a part of The Voice Shop team. 

Her

Gudrun Buhler has more than 20 years of experience helping singers, actors and voice over artists develop the tools they need to deliver with ease and consistently perform at their highest level. She has been working with the fabulous CMD team for over 5 years as a voice over talent and as a language supervisor. Trained as an opera singer and actress, her greatest passion is the voice. Gudrun's performance in her one woman show Mozart's Women won best singer, best play and best original play at the 2017 New York Theatre Festival. Gudrun holds a Master's degree in vocal performance from Manhattan School of Music.

Carol Monda

Carol Monda is a veteran actor of stage, TV and film, and a voiceover artist whose clients include Turner Classic Movies, McDonald’s, Discovery ID, The Guggenheim, NY Historical Society, HSBC, Red Cross, CitiCorp, and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. She is also an Audie-Award winning audiobook narrator of over 450 titles across many genres. She has designed and led classes in acting, voice and speech, scene study, audition techniques, text analysis, accent reduction, audiobook narration and a broad range of commercial and narrative voiceover. Carol has been an adjunct professor in both commercial voiceover and narration at NYU’s Digital Design and Film School and has taught Voice and Speech III at NYU’s Tisch School for the Arts. Currently, she coaches, teaches classes and directs VO demos.  Carol is a member of Actors’ Equity Assn and Sag-Aftra, where she serves on its National Audiobook Steering Committee. 

James Andrews is a veteran commercial voice actor whose talents are always in demand. James has voiced hundreds of television commercials for clients such as Lincoln, Toyota, BMW, Chevrolet, Wrigley’s, General Mills, McDonald’s, Samsung, TD Bank, Bosch, the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture and many more. He has also voiced corporate narration projects and e-learning modules and has done promo work for such prestigious brands as Smithsonian and Sundance Channels, and is also well known for his character and animation work as well as a wide variety of dialects. Prior to becoming a voice actor, James worked as a speech-language pathologist for several years. James has also taught English literature and ESL at Columbia University and The School of Visual Arts in New York City, and at the University of Toronto. His background in speech-language pathology completes the unique skill set that he brings to voice-over education. James lives in Toronto with his wife and two children.

 
Phone: 212-213-9487
Email: info@voiceshopcoaching.com