Narrating 1st-Person POV: Telling “Your” Story
Understanding and navigating the challenges of narrating 1st-Person POV, including identifying tone and clarifying dialogue.
Mastering Your Craft: An Audiobook Performance Master Class with Shannon Parks
A day-long acting intensive for inspired audiobook narrators.
Narrating 3rd-Person
This class takes a deep dive into exploring and building the skills for narrating in the third-person omniscient POV.
Self-Direction: Managing Your Inner Critic
This class explores the self-directing process for narrators: how to rehearse, “listen loosely,” to your work in the moment, make adjustments, and stay concentrated.
Historical Fiction: Of Days Gone Before
A deep-dive into the challenges and features of historical fiction.
Thriller and Horror: Dark and Deadly
A deep dive into narrating thrillers and horror - Overflow Section
Sci-Fi & Fantasy: Other Worldly
A deep-dive into narrating fantasy and science fiction.
Dialogue
This class will be an exploration of creating credible and compelling dialogue with multiple characters in audiobook narration.
Character Development: Asking the Right Questions
This deep dive into the acting process for narrators focuses on developing clear and simple tools for discovering and communicating character, subtext, and motivation in audiobook narration.
Voice and Character: Vocal Dossiers
This class explores Shannon’s “vocal layering” technique for developing character.
Physicality and Feeling: Embodying Character
This class explores the connection between physicality and emotion.
Character-driven Accent Choices
Making character-driven accent choices for greater connection and authenticity.
Acting 101 for New Narrators
This class is designed for narrators that are new to the craft of Acting.
Slaying Robots with Your Humanity
This class explores the power we have as narrators in battling AI with our authenticity, essence, and access to real emotion and human impulse.
Audition Bootcamp!
This 2-hour Zoom class features ways to expedite your audition process and help you perform at your best.
Raising the Stakes!
An acting workshop for narrators entirely focused on deepening your emotional committment to story and character.