VOICE-OVER Classes for all ages and experience levels
Ready to get on the mic—without putting your life on pause? Our flexible part-time classes let performers, professionals, and curious newcomers explore the major genres of voice-over in a real industry environment. Train in our fully equipped Vancouver or Toronto studios, or join remotely from anywhere in the world—on a schedule and budget that works for you.
In-studio & remote classes
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In-studio & remote classes X
Start with the Introductory classes like Explore VO and Foundations, then bring your voice to life through Animation and Commercials. From there, expand your range with specialty training in video games, corporate and broadcast narration, audiobooks, dubbing, and more.
Our Business of Voice-Over classes teach you the practical side of building a career, from marketing your voice and navigating pay-to-play platforms to understanding home studio gear, recording, and sound design. Learn the tools and business skills you need to work professionally and compete in today’s voice-over industry.
On The Mic’s Kids & Teens classes build confidence, creativity, and real performance skills in a fun, supportive environment. Students work with experienced voice actors while learning how to perform for animation and commercials. It’s a great way to develop microphone skills, imagination, and confidence while discovering the world of voice-over.
Discover our classes
Introductory Classes
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Explore Voice-Over
An introductory class for students who are new to voice-over and want to understand the basics of the industry. Students explore commercials, animation, and narration while building confidence on the mic.
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Foundations of voice-over
This beginner-friendly course introduces students to the essential skills of voice-over, including commercials, animation, and narration. Students receive personalized instruction while discovering their strengths, interests, and confidence on the mic.
Vancouver In-Studio / Remote
Toronto In-Studio / Remote
Animation classes
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Animation voice-over / Level 1
Learn the building block process of creating characters that are expressed from your personality and voice print to discover your range and wheelhouse in animation and dubbing/anime'; explore genres and archetypes; and learn how to make bold choices to make your characters leap off the page.
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Animation voice-over / Level 2
Develop your range of comedic and dramatic characters, from live action to super wacky cartoony using detailed genre analysis, character expansion and script breakdown techniques to hone your comedic character wheelhouse in animation and dubbing/anime.
Vancouver In-Studio / Remote
Toronto In-Studio / Remote
Commercial classes
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Commercial voice-over / Level 1
Learn how to breakdown commercial copy: discover your emotional range and wheelhouse of reads; explore your style and tone; develop your ability to make strong acting choices, and discovering your connection to your audience.
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Commercial voice-over / Level 2
Develop the wheelhouse of sophisticated, PSAs, sincere, anthemic, dramatic characters, cool edgy, truck reads, gillette, hard hitting.
Specialty Classes
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Video game / Voice-over
This workshop introduces students to voice-over opportunities in the video game industry. It is suitable for beginners as well as performers with some professional experience.
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Dubbing & A.D.R
Students learn the performance, technique, and timing required for dubbing and ADR work. Mock dubbing sessions give students hands-on experience preparing and performing assigned characters.
Vancouver In-Studio / Remote
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Skills / MP3 Bootcamp
This class teaches students how to prepare high-quality MP3 auditions for commercials, animation, narration, and video games. Students learn the key components of recording and submitting auditions from a home studio.
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Narration / Corporate narration
Students explore one of the largest areas of opportunity in voice-over, including e-learning, medical narration, employee training, explainer videos, phone systems, and corporate branding. The course focuses on the tools needed to pursue and book corporate narration work.
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Narration / Broadcast narration
Learn the most important components of broadcast narration: how to connect, relate and capture your audience, mastery of the material, how to tell an engaging story, and keeping in the flow.
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Narration / Audiobook narration
The audiobook industry has exploded in recent years. Popular books are so often narrated for audio consumption, it is an exciting time to learn how this side of voice-over work is done.
Business of voice-over classes
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Pay to Play sites and how to win
This workshop teaches students how to navigate online voice-over casting and improve their chances of booking work. Students learn strategies for standing out on pay-to-play sites and marketing themselves online.
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Marketing your voice
This lecture and Q&A workshop introduces students to local and online voice-over marketing. Students leave with practical ideas and next steps for building their voice-over business.
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Sound design for voice-over / Level 1
This class helps students understand the equipment, software, and setup needed to record auditions from home. It is designed for students who need help building, customizing, or troubleshooting a home studio.
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Mastering your home studio / Level 2
This workshop supports students who want to improve their home recording setup and troubleshoot studio issues. Students learn more about the tools, software, and setup needed for professional-quality auditions.
Kids & teens classes
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Kids & teens voice-over / Level 1
This course introduces young performers ages 7–17 to the fundamentals of commercial and animation voice-over. Students build confidence through scripts, exercises, and industry-focused guidance while learning what to expect at auditions and on the job.
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Kids & teens voice-over / Level 2
This course is designed for young actors (ages 7-17) who are already auditioning or have a strong foundation in voice-over basics. Students receive age-specific direction to strengthen their animation and commercial reads and improve their confidence, technique, and booking potential.
Vancouver / Remote