James and I have been working our shiny white hineys off on Piehole for the last two years. Now we’ve been shortlisted for an award by the Irish Internet Association. YAY! Please vote for us here http://short.ie/nhhene muchos gracias
Fresh from playing Mick McCarthy on the CD of the smash-hit comedy opera I Keano, Paul Tylak is generally acknowledged as one of Ireland’s foremost character comedians.
Paul started off doing sketches on RTE’s seminal late night satire Nighthawks, before landing a small role in Name of The Father, and appearing twice in the smash-hit comedy classic Father Ted.
As a core member of the Dublin Comedy Improv, Paul has toured extensively on the international comedy festival circuit, performing with cast members of The Simpsons, The Drew Carey Show, Dharma and Gregg, Saturday Night Live, and Whose line is it Anyway?
Recently, Paul wrote and starred in two series of the critically acclaimed sketch show STEW for RTE with which he scooped both the prestigious Irish Film and Television Award and the Celtic Film and Television Award, for Best Entertainment Programme.
Having just featured in the critically acclaimed award winning drama Prosperity (RTE2), Paul is currently filming Badly Drawn Roy, a BBC comedy drama, by day, and by night, can be found in his natural habitat, the standup circuits of Ireland, Britain, Australia, and the US.
PLAY PAUL’S DEMO.
In mid March 2009, kicked off the year with a very interesting Acting workshop with Graham Cantwell, Director of the Feature film “Anton” and creator of the Attic studio Website.
In April, Dom has been working on Robert Quinn’s latest 3 part supernatural TV Drama, Na cloigne “The Heads” as a supporting Actor, It will be aired on TG4 later this year. Dom has been cast as the “Maitre D” for the multi-award winning TV show “The Clinic” and will appear in the new series. Besides that, he is starting a course at the Bill Keating centre to improve his skills in TV production , Direction and presentation. Dom has more work coming up in Films and TV in the year and he is hoping to gain more work and experience in the voice over industry too. Dom his an International Actor to watch out for… Bonne chance et merci beaucoup. PLAY HIS DEMO.
Tara is currently working with Telegael on the cartoon series ‘ Cedric’ and will shortly be filming Na Cloigne with Rosg productions, Robert Quinn dir. To listen to Tara’s demo, click here.
but we rock!! We’ve just been shortlisted for a Net Visionary award!! Besides wanting loads of glory/gloating opportunity/bragging rites, etc, it’s also a great chance to get more publicity for the website - especially in the digital marketing space, as there are more and more voiceover opportunities opening up every day in this area. PLEASE HELP US CREAM THE OTHER GUYS AND VOTE HERE.
I noticed there were quite a few ads this week that made it onto bestadsontv.com that were from India. None of the print work particularly floated my boat, here is one of the better ones for breathmints.
Diane’s new show “Murder Monologues” is on at the Teacher’s Club will be running April 14th-18th April and 27th April –2nd May. Booking: Call 087 6374356 or email plastictheatreproductions@yahoo.ie
I’m Tara Flynn, perhaps best known for comedy, but I’ve been acting since 1990, and doing VOs since 1994. I can currently be seen in sketches in Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle, BBC2 (Mondays at 10pm) and I’m the female lead opposite Omid in “Commuter - The Musical” - a sketch in the forthcoming Omid Djalili Show on the same channel. (One of the back-up dancers had been in Hot Gossip - a dream realised right there.)
I’m now based in London, and I’ll be doing live Improv iwith Rufus Hound, Michael Legge and Brendan Dempsey on Apr 15. See www.myspace.com/flynnercom for details.
My top advice for VOs is to treat each VO-recording like an acting job: approach it with the same discipline, creativity and character as you would if you were reading a full-length play. It all comes out in your voice.
Be on time, and match-fit. PLAY TARA’S DEMO.
My name is Jim Roche and I’m an actor. I’ve been working in the business now for nearly 10 years. I also work as a tutor at The Gaiety School of Acting. One of my favorite theatre jobs was ‘Gerry and The Peace Process’ a spoof musical about Sinn Fein. I worked on ‘I, Keano’, which you’ve probably heard of. I recently played Algernon in a nationwide tour of ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’ which was little bit of a dream come true for me. I played Faustus in the show of the same name all over the country and really enjoyed dancing with the Devil. In film, my favorite job was on the re-make of ‘Lassie’ which was great fun. I’ve done loads of shorts, you can see one of them here. On TV, I appear as PJ, one of the Bally Boys on Killinaskully. I’ve also worked on Fair City and most recently, The Tudors which was fantastic. I’ve just started pursuing the voiceover work and I admit to finding it tough. I’ve had a bit of luck, doing a radio campaign for yourlocal.ie and some training video V/O for the HSE but I intend to step things up over the next year. My next project is an Irish Film Board short in the Bollywood style with the award winning director, David O’Sullivan, at the helm so that should be interesting! HEAR JIM’S DEMO.
Hey guys,
My venture into voiceovers was quite a whirlwind.
A friend of mine, Ronan Byrne had done his demo with Priscilla at piehole so I mailed her in September to find out more. She was having her last v.o demo recording session of the year that week, so if I was going to do it, I’d have to get everything together fast. I tracked down some scripts, with her help and then had a one to one asessment and rehearsal with her. Usually she does these in small groups and you get an afternoon, where the group hangs out (with pizza!) and everyone gives feedback on which scripts worked or didn’t work for you.
I then recorded my demo in the studio. I wasn’t made to feel under pressure for time, which was great and the team were really friendly and helpful. I got my demo back of what they felt were the best samples within the week!
My first job was doing books on tape, and its been a nice steady little nixer since.
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