Overview

Auditioning is it’s own skill set, and commercial auditions vary greatly from theatrical auditions. This class will go over techniques to help actors prepare for commercial auditions for the following in demand styles!

• Teleprompter Auditions
• Storyboard Auditions
• Industrial Auditions
• Spokesperson
• Improvised Auditions
• MOS

Actors will expand their skills and cover how to handle props, approach scripts as a spokesperson, self tape commercial auditions, and more!

Registration

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About the Instructor

Kathleen Zion is a Cleveland, Ohio, native and holds a BFA in Musical Theatre with an emphasis on Acting from Wright State University. She also graduated from Chicago’s Second City Conservatory Program, studying under one of Second City’s founders, Michael Gellman. While living in Chicago, she completed the iO Chicago writing program under Michael McCarthy, a former Saturday Night Live writer. These classes helped hone her skill in sketch comedy writing, sitcom spec scripts, and writing for television.

She continued her love of improvisational comedy while performing around Chicago with the improv troupe One Group Mind and participating in Sketch Fest with Mass St. Productions. Kathleen has been teaching the first all Down syndrome improv troupe with the group Stand Up for Downs. She was also a part of starting the first improvised exposer classes to help people with social anxiety.

In addition to her extensive training she can be seen in many commercials and industrials for Goodwill, DiGiorno, 4Moms, Dicks Sporting Goods, Proper Access, and Cube Space. You can also hear her voice over work for multiple national campaigns including Operation Next and the book Twenty Something Self.