Maya Burghardt

EXPERIENCE / BOOKED JOBS Corporate Videos & Narration: • Universal Studios Hollywood • Toyota • Assurance Wireless – A division of Sprint • Oaks at Ojai Spa • Jax & Bones video for Costco – luxury animal bedding video • Wantify.com Commercial Spots • ClearChannel K101 in San Francisco – spots for Taco Bell, Events & Adventures. TV & Radio :30-:60 Newsbreaks (National & Regional): • Hass Avocados • Moffit Cancer Center • Belvedere Vodka • Pyrex • Red Robin Restaurants Public Service Announcements: • Medimmune Flu PSA – Television PSA • NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness) – Radio PSA Instructional Videos, Tutorials & eLearning: • Alphatrax Monitor (Diabetes monitoring system for animals) • Kahlua Holiday Shipping How-to Video • American Medical Association Podcast • CMS (Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services) Caregiver Training Videos TRAINING Groundlings Theater – Los Angeles, CA Workshop A/B • Fundamentals of Improvisation Kalmenson & Kalmenson – Burbank, CA Foundations I / Studied with Scott Holst, Donna DuBain • Copy Analysis & Introduction to the Kalmenson Method • Accessing Emotion through the Method – Monologue & Dialogue Principles workout • Voice Signature Discovery – Identity & Script Choices • Creating Natural Characters & Attitude development Foundations II / Studied with Scott Holst, Donna DuBain • Monologue – The Next Level: Using multiple attitude transitions; self-direction • Tags – Mastering speed & clarity, legal tags & disclaimers • Signature Refinement & Expansion Voicecaster – Burbank, CA Intermediate / Studied with Huck Liggett • Developing reads for retail, industrial, legal/disclaimer, infomercial & animation • Character development • Demo prep, market trends & prototypes Audition Pro Workshop / Studied with Huck Liggett, Chuck Klausmeyer • Simulated Auditions • Attitude development and adjustments for multiple takes in an audition setting • Individual, dialogue and group copy Weekly VOWG (Voice Over Workout Group) / Voicecaster team • Continued study, mic workouts, copy breakdown & analysis • Casting director feedback on takes Garden of Sound - Tori Hartman Studio - Los Angeles, CA Voice Over Training with Tori Hartman • Commercial Reads Workshop with Tori: Identifying signature, nailing the read. • 3-Month VO Marketing Group: The Business of VO • Commercial Reads Workshop with Rebecca Hargrove of WME • Commercial Reads Workshop with Terri Apple Hollywood Actor’s Studio – Los Angeles, CA Voice Over Training / Studied with Eric Stone • Voice range, energy levels, narration styles, voice rhythms & tempos • Breath work • Breaking down copy I have easy and direct access to state-of-the-art voiceover production studios with full and complete capabilities. I'm a natural born communicator and have spent most of my career writing, speaking and influencing others as a public relations executive. I have found that the skills I've honed in PR are directly applicable to my career in voiceover. In PR, my day is spent digesting and interpreting ideas and spinning them into fresh concepts that can be communicated effectively; then, using my voice I massage the ideas until they're so delicious, any reporter would want to tell the story. I approach VO copy the same way - I interpret the writer's vision and deliver a truthful and honest performance that is true to their concept and gives them what they want and more.