WHO AM I?

Hi - I’m Erin Lillis and I’m a voice actress! Currently I’m the lead actress in a podcast called CONGERIA (Season 1), I’m a contributing voice actress on the popular NoSleep horror podcast and I also voice my own podcast The SubverCity Transmit. In addition I can be heard as the spokesperson voice for a number of brands in their radio advertisements and web explainer videos and I can be heard in a handful of video games such as SEEKING DAWN, STIFLED, FATHER IO, DARK ROMANCE 5: CURSE OF BLUEBEARD, A HERO’S CALL and more upcoming titles.

Many people have asked me how they too can get started in voice acting so I thought I’d teach this intro class on how I started myself on the path and what I think is an excellent method for dipping your toe in the waters to see if you even like it.

INTRODUCTION TO THE PROJECT

First off, I’ll confess that I didn’t jump into this COMPLETELY coldly. I have been “doing voices” to impersonate characters and entertain friends all of my life and in film school I got a taste for working in sound. Following that I interned with an Oscar award winning sound designer and took further classes in audio design and radio production. So I made an educated jump into the process but in this class we’re just going to start with the basics.

My intent is to give you a TASTE of a what is commonly involved in voice acting so that you can determine if this is something you want to pursue further.

We’ll be doing that by completing a small narration project for Librivox - a site for free audiobooks of work that is in the public domain . And we’ll be recording and editing this project using Audacity - a free open source audio editor.