VIDEO GAME CLINIC - Andrea Toyias - "Auditioning Deep Dive" - Saturday September 14th 2024 | 10:30am-1:30pm PT - ZOOM

Being in the presence of an industry professional does not guarantee employment, as the clinics are for educational purposes only

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.

Andrea Toyias
Casting & Voice Director - Blizzard Entertainment

In Andrea's role as the Senior Casting and Voice Director at Blizzard Entertainment, she will share insights into the qualities she seeks when selecting talent for popular games such as Overwatch and World of Warcraft.

Andrea Toyias is the Senior Casting & Voice Director at Blizzard Entertainment where she has enjoyed bringing a wide-range of characters to life in World of WarCraft, Diablo, StarCraft, Hearthstone and most recently, Blizzard's newest exciting title, Overwatch.

Andrea has been involved with video games for over 15 years. Her early years were spent at Vivendi Games where she first developed her love and passion for voice acting as a Dialogue Editor and later as a Recording Engineer. She worked with hundreds of actors on innumerable games of every genre, ranging from the fun and entertaining Spyro to the dark and ominous Chronicles of Riddick. Andrea has since transitioned to Blizzard Entertainment where casting and directing ghouls, goblins and multi-headed demons and space aliens are her specialty.

Her latest work on Overwatch has led her all over the globe as she searches for characters of every background, ethnicity and sound in order to make Blizzard's newest undertaking come to life in new and exciting ways.

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.