Belton, Texas – University of Mary Hardin-Baylor students will perform in a presentation of Comedic Voice-Over Performances and Training at UMHB in the Townsend Library Conference Room, #107, Thursday, December 9, at 3:00 p.m. This performance is free and open to the public.
UMHB Voice and Diction students from the Department of Communication and Media Studies will perform a broad-range of voice-over material that includes: poetry, short story excerpts and commercials. They will also perform comedic dramatic dialogues, such as Monty Python material, in dialects and character voices. The student performers are Mateo Gamboa, Garrett Pekar, Pi'Dadro Davis, Jonathan Mayo, Amber Baird and Austin McCormick.
Lainie Frasier, an Austin Voice-Over Coach and Talent, will be at the performance on December 9 to critique the students. She will also present and answer questions on the business of voice-over. This session is open to the public and will provide significant workshop training, as well as an opportunity to meet and ask questions of the performers, Dr. Howard and Ms. Frasier.
Frasier has over 1500 radio, television and animation voice-over credits. Her career started in Austin with GSD&M Advertising, and then with Fralix Advertising. She then worked as Studio Manager for eighteen years for the Production Block, Austin's leading commercial recording studio. During her career at the Production Block, Lainie developed her popular voice acting workshops and now teaches workshops, produces, and acts full-time as owner of VoiceWorks. Lainie has recently been heard on projects for the Texas Department of Health, Time Warner Cable, Insure-A-Kid, and Patriot Pontiac. Her voice can be heard on her Web site, http://www.lfvoiceworks.com/herlips.shtml .
Ms. Frasier’s animation credits include the following: Wedding Peach, Final Fantasy Unlimited, Mazenkaiser, Sonic the Hedgehog, Legend of Crystania, Samurai X, and MAPS. Some of her directing projects have been for the following companies: Tocquigny/Steel (which won a gold and silver Addy Award), Globalscape, El Paso Import Company, Hewlett-Packard, Austin Board of Realtors, Keepsake Fine Jewelry, and Guadalupe Valley Electric Cooperative.
Besides her VoiceWorks workshops, Lainie Frasier has taught master classes for the UT College of Fine Arts, the University of Mary Hardin Baylor, UT's Informal Classes program, and Austin Information Radio. She has worked on Austin stage productions of Talk Radio, The Sisters Rosensweig, Free Will and Wanton Lust, Inspecting Carol, Six Degrees of Separation, Road to Nirvana, A Delicate Balance, Colonel Mustard and Bleacher Bums. She also was a founder and star of Ground Zero Theatre. Lainie received a best actress award in Inspecting Carol and best supporting actress award in Road to Nirvana. She has won numerous local to national advertising and public relations awards for acting and producing.
The presenters are performance communication students of Dr. Diane Howard, who has co-authored with Lainie Frasier the textbook used in the Voice and Diction class. McGraw-Hill first published this book in 2005. This textbook, Speak Skillfully and Successfully: A Guide to Developing Diction and Voice-Over Excellence, is available in the UMHB Bookstore and online.
