Speakers

Andrea Toyias is a veteran Casting and Voice Director whose career has been spent at the intersection of performance, storytelling and games. She founded the voice-over department at Blizzard Entertainment and spent 20 years overseeing casting and voice direction across some of the company's most celebrated franchises, including World of Warcraft, Diablo, Overwatch, StarCraft, and Hearthstone. During her two decades at Blizzard, Andrea helped build the studio's VO pipeline from the ground up, collaborating with creative teams and performers to populate worlds with thousands of characters—from legendary heroes and terrifying villains to the smallest NPC with only a handful of lines. Known for bringing energy, curiosity and a deep love of actors into the recording room, Andrea has spent thousands of hours behind the glass directing performances and helping creative teams discover possibilities they may not have known were on the page. Today, she brings that experience to the broader game development and acting communities through directing, casting, consulting, coaching and education. After a career spent creating heroes, demons, dragons, orcs and the occasional talking spoon, Andrea remains fascinated by the same thing that drew her to voice-over in the first place: the extraordinary things that can happen when great storytelling meets great performance.

Presenting:

• Stop Casting Voices- Start Casting Characters: Lessons Learned from 20 Years in Azeroth