Andrea Toyias Advanced Auditioning Techniques

102: Advanced Auditioning Techniques

Being alone in your booth with confusing sides can be overwhelming and debilitating at times. Andrea’s goal is to “turn on the lights” in that darkened mental space so that characters can come to life and connections can be made to both character and copy. Her aim is to provide actual GPS coordinates for you to follow so that you can “find” your character and bring amazing performances to life. By sharing techniques and running copy together, Andrea hopes to bring fun and creativity back to a sometimes daunting process.

Who is Andrea Toyias

The Bard aka Shakespeare has been known to proclaim, “All the world’s a stage”, and perhaps that’s why some titles from Blizzard entertainment are so cinematic and wide-ranging: ANDREA TOYIAS’s approach is to make the recording booth “an endless stage of possibilities, rather than a room, a mic, and four padded walls.” Her strategy has paid off, with Blizzard’s world-rocking success with titles such as Diablo, StarCraft, World of Warcraft and especially Overwatch.

Andrea landed upon Blizzard’s shores in 2008 and was given the task of building their VO department from the ground up. As the Senior Casting & Voice Director at Blizzard, she casts and directs every voice appearing in a Blizzard title. Fifteen-plus years later, casting and directing ghouls, goblins, multi-headed demons, space aliens and super heroes of every variety is Andrea’s specialty...and working with actors of every level is her deepest passion.

Andrea's goal, no matter the character and no matter the project, is to find a truth and believability in every line and in every performance.