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Elaine A. Clark is an actor, author, app creator, podcaster, playwright, and speech communication coach. Clark is known for her best selling books, There’s Money Where Your Mouth Is and Voice-Overs for Podcasting, speech and diction apps Activate Your Voice and Adding Melody to Your Voice, Real Talking Tips podcast and Making It M.I.N.E.™ speech communication performance technique.

ACTOR

Elaine A. Clark’s most recognizable film work includes the futuristic gameshow host in the film Sorry To Bother You, the nurse in LaMission and the salon owner in My Name is Kahn. The majority of Clark’s acting career has been in voice-overs for commercials, narrations, video games, toys, film looping, e-learning, IVR, and as an on-camera host and live presenter for San Francisco/Bay Area businesses. Clark was the voice of Steve Job’s NeXt Computer. Clark also played Emily Finley in Microsoft’s 1st sales training video.

AUTHOR

Elaine A. Clark is the author of There’s Money Where Your Mouth Is 1st & 2nd editions published by Back Stage Books in 1995 and 2000. For the 3rd and 4th editions of There’s Money Where Your Mouth Is in 2011 and 2019, Elaine A. Clark changed publishers to Allworth Press. Elaine A. Clark is the author of Voice-Overs for Podcasting - How to Develop a Career and Make A Profit published by Allworth Press in 2020.

APPS

Elaine Clark Activate Your Voice app is a 5-minute speech and diction warm-up. Adding Melody to Your Voice is Clark’s training app that focuses on speech melody and word emphasis variations.

PODCAST

Elaine A. Clark is the host/creator of Real Talking Tips, a speech communication podcast.

PLAYWRIGHT Elaine Clark is the co-author and producer of two plays: Merry-Go-Round with Dennis Lancaster, and R-III*-Actor You’re Killing Me… a farce with Scott Munson.

SPEECH COMMUNICATION COACH

Elaine Clark is a speech coach to newscasters, multimedia journalists, reporters, sportscasters,  stadium announcers, TV hosts, business executives, and podcasters. Clients include Oracle, Netflix, Salesforce, Oakland Athletics, ABC, CBS, NBC, CBS Sports/Pac 12, CBS Interactive, Aljazeera, Capgemini, Electronic Arts, Blizzard, Camico, Gamespot, Google, Osmo, Pandora, ServiceNow, Udify, Univfy, Mulesoft, Dan The Produce Man podcast, and the Jordan Harbinger Show.

Elaine A. Clark provided content and performed in 4 e-learning communication suite training modules for NuVeda Learning: presentations, body language, videocom/telecon, and email. Plus, facilitated full day communication workshops in Chennai and Bangalore India for Senior Managers across industries (IT / BPO / Sales & Marketing / Advertising).

CASTING & DIRECTING

A few of the voice-over projects that Elaine Clark has cast and directed include: JoJo’s Bizaare Adventure [A.P.P.P./Super Techno Arts], Saikano Viz, Inc., Super 8, Covet Fashion, Dragons of Atlantis, Edgeworld, Kingdoms of Camelot, The Godfather: Five Families, Thirst of Night, Spawn, Skies of Arcadia, D2, Mario’s Time Machine, Star Wars Chess, Eternal Champion, Mother Goose’s Farm and Aliens.

HISTORY

Elaine A. Clark is a graduate of Centenary College of Louisiana where she received a BA in Theatre & Speech Communication and Secondary Education. Clark’s post-college employment consisted of an array of advertising related jobs including radio sales, media buyer, casting assistant, copywriter, and recording studio manager.

In 1986, Elaine Clark and Andy Ebon co-founded Voice One, a voice-over, acting, on-camera and improv school in San Francisco. A few years later, Mr. Ebon sold his share of the business. Over the next 32 years, Ms. Clark trained over 5,000 students and launched thousands of voice-over and on-camera actors’ careers. In 2019, Elaine Clark divided the business in two, sold Voice One Training to one of her former students, retained Voice One Productions, and launched her new brand ElaineClarkVO.