Our Teachers
Joe Ochman
Joe Ochman has enjoyed an acting, directing and coaching career that spans over forty years. He has worked consistently in all areas of voiceover. But it all started with commercials - at first on-camera, then voice. He has recorded voiceover spots for Home Depot, Wonder Bread, Arco, Sit ‘n Sleep and many, many more. Joe was nominated in 2021 for a Voice Arts Award in the Best VO Commercial Campaign category for his series of Golftec spots. Elsewhere in voiceover land, his animated films include Oscar-nominated Ernest & Celestine and National Film Award winning Delhi Safari. He has appeared on The Wonderful World of Mickey Mouse and recurred on Doc McStuffins. In video games, Joe voiced William Price in Life Is Strange and Professor Harold MacDougall in multi-award winning Red Dead Redemption. He voiced roles in Dishonored 2, Fallout 4 (BTVA Award Winner), Kingdom Hearts 3, Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, World of Warcraft, Diablo III and more. Joe voice is all over the anime universe, including Star Wars: Visions, Marvel’s Blade, JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure, Naruto, Gundam, Transformers, Digimon, Pokemon, Wolf’s Rain, Cowboy Beebop and many more. His most recent audiobook performance, Life’s Edge, was also nominated for a Voice Arts Award in 2021. Joe brings the breadth of all this experience into his teaching.
arthur G. insana
Arthur G. Insana is a multi-award-winning pioneer in the resurgence of audio theatre, and has produced and directed some of the highest grossing and most elaborate audiodramas in the history of the industry, including the full-cast, full-production Star Wars: Dark Empire series for Time Warner/Lucasfilm, and The Historian, a multi-cast Bestseller for Time Warner. Insana also has produced and/or directed hundreds of cutting-edge audio programs for Time Life, Simon & Schuster, Random House, Bantam/Doubleday/Dell, HarperCollins and Audible.com, as well as radio campaigns for clients including L.A. Gear, La Salsa Mexican Restaurants, Morgan Creek Productions and Warner Bros.
More recently, he produced and directed the first novel written exclusively for digital download on Audible.com, starring Alfred Molina: The Chopin Manuscript -- which received two Audie Nominations: Best Original Audio and Audio of the Year, and won the Audie Award for “Audio of the Year.” The Chopin Manuscript also was named one of the Best Audios of the Year by Audiofile Magazine.
chris jargo
Chris' extensive credits include such films as Ghost in the Shell (Supervising ADR Editor), Star Trek Beyond (Supervising ADR Editor), X-Men Apocalypse (ADR Editor), and Gladiator (ADR Editor). He's also won multiple MPSE Awards for Best Sound Editing (Babe, The Little Mermaid, Jerry Maguire), as well as an Emmy Nomination for Best Sound Editing for A Street Car Named Desire.