Gregg Cohen and Kristen Beck

02/04/20 • 44 min

Kristen: An independent casting director for over twenty years in San Francisco, Los Angeles and nationally, Kristen specializes in commercials, industrials, short films, print, and music video. She has an extended database of SAG/AFTRA actors and non-union actors as well as a comprehensive selection of real people.

Gregg: Gregg Cohen has been casting in San Francisco for 25 years. She casts for commercials and industrials and the occasional short film and music video. Gregg is also co-owner of Das Studio casting studios.

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Elaine Clark

Elaine A. Clark has spent over 35 years immersed in the voice-over business as an actor, author, app creator, director, coach, audio engineer, producer, casting director. She is the owner of Voice One and Voice One Productions and the Founder of the first full-time voice-over training academy, Voice One in San Francisco. Her best-selling book, There's Money Where Your Mouth Is, is used as a text book in colleges and universities and with individuals around the world. The two apps she created are designed to improve diction, breath support, resonance, melody, and precision. Activate Your Voice is an effective and powerful 5-minute voice warm up. Adding Melody To Your Voice includes a 16 minute training video and an interactive listen, record, and playback practice area. Elaine's newest book, Voice Overs for Podcasting, will be available in the latter half of 2020.

You can currently see Elaine on-screen as the futuristic game show host in the movie, Sorry To Bother You. Gamers can hear her as the dispatcher in Mafia III. Over her long career she's recorded hundreds of commercials, narrations, and toys. She's cast, directed and/or performed in close to 100 video games a couple anime series [JoJo's Bizaare Adventure and Saikano], looped several movies such as Super8, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Master, and Titan A.E., and a handful of audiobooks.

Elaine has trained and launched the careers of 1000s of voice actors and looks forward to seeing many of her past and current students and meeting the rest of you!

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Laurie Burke

Laurie Burke is a San Francisco native and comes from a family of professional actors and musicians (think “The Partridge Family” meets “This is Spinal Tap”). With an adventurous spirit and a genuine joy of all things creative, she decided to also turn her creative passion into a full-time career. For over fifteen years, Laurie has been a professional Actress, Voice Over Artist, Host and Singer.

With an un-quenching thirst to learn her craft, Laurie has studied Dramatic Arts in London (Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts), Paris, Berlin, Los Angles and San Francisco (American Conservatory Theater).

Her many TV Credits include playing lawyer Alice Kaye opposite Hugh Laurie in Chance, staring roles in Wives with Knives and I (Almost Got Away With It) and numerous commercials for major companies including Blackberry, Volkswagen, Raley’s, Walmart, Metro PCS, Nokia and Wells Fargo. Currently she is playing Sheriff Laura Stevens in the Rosario Dawson based web series The North Pole.

Her many Film credits include “Mr. Invincible”, “The Mendoza Line”, “Redwoods”, and numerous award winning Short Films including voicing the main role of “Hisayo” in Roadside Assistance. Recently she worked opposite Adam Devine in the feature film “Jexi” - providing the “on-set” (behind the scenes) voice of Jexi.

Known as the “Original Voice of Google Voice”, Laurie has lent her voice to such varied productions ranging from The Emmys to countless radio and T.V. commercials including Channel 36(L.A.), Cisco, LinkedIn, Kaiser Permanente, 24 Hour Fitness, Symantec, First Republic Bank, Wells Fargo, TV.com, and voiced for all Raley’s/Nob Hill commercials.

Theater credits include the role of "Amy" in Stephen Sondheim's musical "Company", "Gal" in the touring production of "Just for Laughs", and starred in countless Sold-Out performances as “Claudia Roe” in Lucy Prebble’s “Enron”.

For over eight years, Laurie has been an On-Air TV and web Host for Common Sense Media, a company she is very proud to represent. She’s also their go-to for Voice Over and Award shows.

As a professional singer, Laurie has fronted many different bands of different genres as well as performed in many musicals, films, jingles and Voice Over projects.

Laurie always feels extremely happy and grateful for every opportunity she has been given and believes sharing her creative passion and helping others is her true purpose in life.

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