Kids on Camera TV/Film Acting & Voiceover Workshops
Kids on Camera TV/Film Acting & Voiceover School, 414 Jackson St, Suite 202, San Francisco, CA 94111
About
Kids on Camera TV/Film Acting & Voiceover School offers workshops where students practice TV commercial acting skills, voiceover for animated films and TV series, hosting performance skills, and audition skills for TV/film and voiceover. Classes include improvisation and storytelling, comedic and dramatic acting skills for films, comedic and dramatic monologues, physical comedy, and physical and vocal warmups. Students work on creating character voices, building creature voices using pitch, texture, and rhythm, layering accents and vocal placement for non-human characters, adding personality and emotion to real people scripts and monsters, and learning comedy skills with scripts, and there is also a vocalist performance and audition skills option and a parent’s make-a-self-tape audition activity.
• Ages: 5–18 years old
• Schedule: One-day workshops on Zoom for ages 6–8 and 9–18 are offered for 90 minutes to 2 or 3 hours on Saturday or Sunday, with ongoing monthly Saturday or Sunday workshops posted 10 days before each month.
• Price: Sunday, March 22, ages 7–9, 10AM–12PM PST, $180; Sunday, March 22, ages 10–18, 1PM–4:00PM PST, $220; one-day workshops on Zoom for ages 6–8 and 9–18 from $125; private class with Judy Berlin $125 for 1 hour or more.
Kids on Camera TV/Film Acting & Voiceover Workshops for ages 5–18 run year-round in person and on Zoom online. Enrollment is limited, including Zoom enrollment limited to 8–12, and fun and challenging scripts are emailed before the class date for practice. Parents receive feedback in evaluations emailed after workshops and when watching students perform on Zoom or in person, and in the March 22 workshops a parent joins the last 40 minutes as students perform live. The program offers personal or visual video feedback, and its curriculum is described as benefiting both the actor and the non-actor in a fun and non-competitive atmosphere, with an environment where students learn to take risks as performers and as people. The mission states that Kids on Camera is a personal development and acting training that serves young people by improving their communication skills, self-esteem and confidence, aims to make learning fun, focuses on using imaginations and creating joy, creates a feeling of personal freedom to overcome apprehensions and reduce fear of being negatively judged, empowers children and looks for the gifts each student brings, and notes that shy youngsters open up and feel more positive while gifted and confident children find an outlet for their creative energy.
Kids on Camera TV/Film Acting School was established in 1981 and has been described as celebrating its 43rd, 44th, and 45th years. The leadership team includes Judy Berlin, Director and founder of Kids on Camera; Debórah Eliezer, Kids on Camera Associate Director; and John Morris, professional voice actor and coach as a guest coach. The program notes a rare opportunity to study voiceover with John Morris, the voice of Andy in the Toy Story franchise and Santa Boy in The Nightmare Before Christmas.
Judy Berlin is a credentialed teacher in Theatre Arts/Communications, a professional voiceover artist, vocalist, and casting director with a B.A. from Michigan State University and graduate work in film at Wayne State University and San Francisco State University. She was casting director for Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Educational Films for 7 years, has casting credits including Disney Films and Nickelodeon, was a voiceover on Sesame Street for 12 years, and is a member of SAG/AFTRA. Debórah Eliezer has over 25 years of coaching acting for TV/film, stage, improvisation, voiceover and dance, is Founder/Artistic Director of Aviva Arts, voiced over 25 Leapfrog Toys TV commercials and a Nickelodeon TV commercial, Dora the Explorer, and video games including Sims 2 for console, Sims 3 and 4, and Monopoly and Godfather games, was selected in 2021 for a theater residency at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre Ground Floor program, has been the brand-identified voice of LiveOps since 2003, has voiced for hundreds of 1-800 As Seen on TV products, holds a B.A. Cum Laude from San Francisco State University, and is a Certified Sound, Voice Movement Healing Arts Practitioner from California Institute of Integral Studies and a certified yoga teacher. Stephen Bass has over 30 years of professional theatre performing and teaching experience, holds a BFA in theatre from San Francisco State University, and has a multiple subject teaching credential. Kelly “Texas” Holly is a professional circus and physical comedy artist and dancer, received her BA in dance from University of North Texas, studied at the Clown Conservatory, was youth program director for 2 years and a coach for over 10 years at San Francisco’s Circus Center, and is the Community Engagement Director at Circus Center. John Litten earned his B.A. in theatre at San Diego State University and was co-founder of the Los Angeles–based program The Young Actors Project (Y.A.P.). David Rosenthal received his BA in Theatre, Anthropology, and English Literature from Sarah Lawrence College, studied in NYC at Herbert Bergoff Studios, is described as one of the nation’s top voice over coaches with over 25 years of voice over coaching experience, and has over 1000 voice over credits including 70 games. Ezra Stanley has a BA in Cinema & Film Production from San Francisco State University and awards including Best TV Commercial Award at the Burbank International Film Festival in 2009 and 2010 and Best Commercial at HollyShorts Film Festival in Hollywood in 2011.
Kids on Camera reports that classes on Zoom began in April 2020 and that there is a high return rate for these classes. If a student is interested in future auditions and seeks to meet casting directors and a talent agent, Kids on Camera states that it helps students connect with these sources if their skills show readiness. KGO TV consumer reporter Michael Finney from Seven on Your Side and View from the Bay featured Kids on Camera in 1998 and 2009. The program has received a Certificate of Honor Award from the City of San Francisco Supervisors for Service to Youth in 2016, and the Santa Clara County Psychological Association presented its 1989 Award for Significant Contribution to Mental Health to Judy Berlin in recognition of her dedication to the well-being of children. Testimonials from parents include comments such as “Kids on Camera was the right place to go,” a parent describing boys ages 9 and 10 talking about the class, making up more scripts, and playing with scripts at home after class, and another message stating, “HI JUDY. You teach skills that improve lives.”
Last updated March 7, 2026.
• Ages: 5–18 years old
• Schedule: One-day workshops on Zoom for ages 6–8 and 9–18 are offered for 90 minutes to 2 or 3 hours on Saturday or Sunday, with ongoing monthly Saturday or Sunday workshops posted 10 days before each month.
• Price: Sunday, March 22, ages 7–9, 10AM–12PM PST, $180; Sunday, March 22, ages 10–18, 1PM–4:00PM PST, $220; one-day workshops on Zoom for ages 6–8 and 9–18 from $125; private class with Judy Berlin $125 for 1 hour or more.
Kids on Camera TV/Film Acting & Voiceover Workshops for ages 5–18 run year-round in person and on Zoom online. Enrollment is limited, including Zoom enrollment limited to 8–12, and fun and challenging scripts are emailed before the class date for practice. Parents receive feedback in evaluations emailed after workshops and when watching students perform on Zoom or in person, and in the March 22 workshops a parent joins the last 40 minutes as students perform live. The program offers personal or visual video feedback, and its curriculum is described as benefiting both the actor and the non-actor in a fun and non-competitive atmosphere, with an environment where students learn to take risks as performers and as people. The mission states that Kids on Camera is a personal development and acting training that serves young people by improving their communication skills, self-esteem and confidence, aims to make learning fun, focuses on using imaginations and creating joy, creates a feeling of personal freedom to overcome apprehensions and reduce fear of being negatively judged, empowers children and looks for the gifts each student brings, and notes that shy youngsters open up and feel more positive while gifted and confident children find an outlet for their creative energy.
Kids on Camera TV/Film Acting School was established in 1981 and has been described as celebrating its 43rd, 44th, and 45th years. The leadership team includes Judy Berlin, Director and founder of Kids on Camera; Debórah Eliezer, Kids on Camera Associate Director; and John Morris, professional voice actor and coach as a guest coach. The program notes a rare opportunity to study voiceover with John Morris, the voice of Andy in the Toy Story franchise and Santa Boy in The Nightmare Before Christmas.
Judy Berlin is a credentialed teacher in Theatre Arts/Communications, a professional voiceover artist, vocalist, and casting director with a B.A. from Michigan State University and graduate work in film at Wayne State University and San Francisco State University. She was casting director for Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Educational Films for 7 years, has casting credits including Disney Films and Nickelodeon, was a voiceover on Sesame Street for 12 years, and is a member of SAG/AFTRA. Debórah Eliezer has over 25 years of coaching acting for TV/film, stage, improvisation, voiceover and dance, is Founder/Artistic Director of Aviva Arts, voiced over 25 Leapfrog Toys TV commercials and a Nickelodeon TV commercial, Dora the Explorer, and video games including Sims 2 for console, Sims 3 and 4, and Monopoly and Godfather games, was selected in 2021 for a theater residency at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre Ground Floor program, has been the brand-identified voice of LiveOps since 2003, has voiced for hundreds of 1-800 As Seen on TV products, holds a B.A. Cum Laude from San Francisco State University, and is a Certified Sound, Voice Movement Healing Arts Practitioner from California Institute of Integral Studies and a certified yoga teacher. Stephen Bass has over 30 years of professional theatre performing and teaching experience, holds a BFA in theatre from San Francisco State University, and has a multiple subject teaching credential. Kelly “Texas” Holly is a professional circus and physical comedy artist and dancer, received her BA in dance from University of North Texas, studied at the Clown Conservatory, was youth program director for 2 years and a coach for over 10 years at San Francisco’s Circus Center, and is the Community Engagement Director at Circus Center. John Litten earned his B.A. in theatre at San Diego State University and was co-founder of the Los Angeles–based program The Young Actors Project (Y.A.P.). David Rosenthal received his BA in Theatre, Anthropology, and English Literature from Sarah Lawrence College, studied in NYC at Herbert Bergoff Studios, is described as one of the nation’s top voice over coaches with over 25 years of voice over coaching experience, and has over 1000 voice over credits including 70 games. Ezra Stanley has a BA in Cinema & Film Production from San Francisco State University and awards including Best TV Commercial Award at the Burbank International Film Festival in 2009 and 2010 and Best Commercial at HollyShorts Film Festival in Hollywood in 2011.
Kids on Camera reports that classes on Zoom began in April 2020 and that there is a high return rate for these classes. If a student is interested in future auditions and seeks to meet casting directors and a talent agent, Kids on Camera states that it helps students connect with these sources if their skills show readiness. KGO TV consumer reporter Michael Finney from Seven on Your Side and View from the Bay featured Kids on Camera in 1998 and 2009. The program has received a Certificate of Honor Award from the City of San Francisco Supervisors for Service to Youth in 2016, and the Santa Clara County Psychological Association presented its 1989 Award for Significant Contribution to Mental Health to Judy Berlin in recognition of her dedication to the well-being of children. Testimonials from parents include comments such as “Kids on Camera was the right place to go,” a parent describing boys ages 9 and 10 talking about the class, making up more scripts, and playing with scripts at home after class, and another message stating, “HI JUDY. You teach skills that improve lives.”
Last updated March 7, 2026.
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