THE NEKAP INSTITUTE

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What students and faculty have said about my workshops…

Thank you for another fantastic series of workshops in the EIF Voiceover Lab. You were very generous with your time after the workshop as well (I’m sure conventions and the such are similar experiences). We received very positive feedback from the series like:

“Neil was a great teacher and extremely informative.”
“Great session! Learned a lot.”
“This was awesome! Entertaining, informative, direct, and insightful.”
“Inspirational, thank you!”

Many thanks.

Greg StankevichAdministrator – EIF Voiceover Lab

The class was awesome, thank you to everyone involved!!

JohnWorkshop Student

I wanted to extend our sincere thanks from the SAG Foundation for a wonderful pair of workshops these past 2 weeks. We received such positive feedback:

“Thank you!! I learned so much about my limitations here – very important – I am so grateful to learn.”
“These workshops are wonderful! I learn so much from every experience.”
“I very much enjoyed Neil and his energy. He was very informative and I felt like I learned so much in his session alone.”

We, and the members as well, would love to have you back in the Spring again. Your experience and display of expertise were incredible learning tools for us, and we can’t wait to hear more!

On a personal note, I loved hearing about the production process of the awesome projects you worked on. As someone who would love to audio engineer for games one day, I very much enjoyed your workshop series.

Many thanks,

Greg StankevichAdministrator – EIF Voiceover Lab

Thank you so much. Can’t wait to hear the wonderful cringiness. I had a great time. See you soon.

JenWorkshop Student

Thank you so much for sending me my audio recordings! I enjoyed hearing them. Please convey my thanks to Paul for creating my audio file, as well as to Neil for giving me tips for how to be a good voice actor. I truly enjoyed the class, and look forward to coming again for another workshop soon!

HarishWorkshop Student

Neil Kaplan is not only a mega successful Videogame and Animation voice talent, he’s also an incredible teacher. I LOVED his recent Character Creation workshop in London. It was such a fun day and I came away inspired – and much improved. Thanks, Neil, for the stories and the skills, and for reminding me why I got into this wonderful business in the first place.

Katie F. Workshop Student

30 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE

Neil has voiceover credits from commercials, audio books, video games and more. His voice has been heard on popular series’ like Robot Chicken, Marvel Anime: Iron Man, The Mighty Morphin Power Rangers and currently, the fan favorite Naruto: Shippuden. However, he is perhaps best known as the voice of the iconic shape shifting hero Optimus Prime in the animated series Transformers: Robots in Disguise. His video game credits include Bioshock Infinite, the Skylanders franchise, Venom & Sabretooth in Marvel Universe, the Mouth of Sauron and numerous Orcs in Warner Brothers current hit The Shadows of Mordor and many others. In addition, he provided the voice of cult fan favorite Tychus Findlay in Blizzard Entertainment’s highly popular Starcraft 2 and the upcoming release Heroes of the Storm.

Neil also volunteers as a teacher at the Braille Institute of Los Angeles and was the founder of the non-profit entertainment provider Audio Theater for the Troops.