David H. Lawrence XVII

Actor/Coach

After a 36-year career in radio, David H. Lawrence XVII moved to television, and has been seen on FX’s The People vs. OJ, ABC’s epic series LOST, CBS’ legendary CSI, The Mentalist, The Bold and the Beautiful, and the military thriller The Unit, NBC’s spy comedy Chuck, Good Luck Charlie and ANT Farm on Disney, Touch and The Finder on FOX, and is best known as the creepy evil puppet master Eric Doyle on NBC’s smash hit Heroes. His film career includes on-camera and VO work on Cars 3, Straight Outta Compton, Men in Black III, Pizza Man, The Changeling, The Hulk, Iron Man, Percy Jackson, Unstoppable, Too Big to Fail, A Special Relationship and countless others. His acting site is https://davidhlawrencexvii.com/.

He has voiced over 200 audiobooks, and teaches specialized courses in audiobook production, with a concentration on ACX and Audible work, and teaches the ACX Master Class at http://acxmasterclass.com/.

Lawrence helps actors create their own voiceover careers with his award winning VOHeroes.com training program, and has been BACKSTAGE’s Readers’ Choice for Favorite VO Teacher and Favorite VO Demo Producer for four years in a row. He teaches in Los Angeles and online via https://voheroes.com.

He created the best-selling industry standard Rehearsal® Pro app for actors and VO talent, giving them a digital rehearsal studio right in their pocket. Details are at https://rehearsal.pro/.

On radio, the Emmy-award winning and Clio-nominated Lawrence hosted The David Lawrence Show, Online Tonight, was a morning show talent for ABC Radio, Clear Channel and CNET, and anchored The Net Music Countdown, heard on over 300 radio stations and both XM and Sirius Satellite Radio. Lawrence was at the forefront of the podcasting revolution, having delivered daily RealAudio and MP3 “”podcasts”” via email from early 1995.