Bill Ratner (Keynote)
Atlas Talent Agency voiceover talent
Hollywood, CA
Bill Ratner is one of Hollywood’s premier voiceover artists and a published author. He is the voice of "Flint" in the TV cartoon G.I. Joe: All-American Hero, G.I. Joe: The Movie, Family Guy, Robot Chicken, and NBC-TV’s Community, movie trailers for the Coen brothers' Hail Caesar, Marvel’s Ant-Man, Pixar’s Inside-Out, Will Ferrell's The Campaign, MegaMind, Talladega Nights, etc., commercials for Hyundai, Sprint, Pizza Hut, etc., and the documentary narrator of TV series: Air Disasters, I Almost Got Away With It, and Behind Mansion Walls. His book from Familius Publications, Parenting for the Digital Age: The Truth behind Media's Effect on Children and What To Do About It, achieved #1 Hot New Release on Amazon.com, and he is a contributing-author of Secrets of Voiceover Success from Sentient Press. Bill’s spoken word performances can be heard on National Public Radio stations’ Good Food, The Business, and KCRW’s Strangers. He is a nine-time winner of The Moth StorySLAMs, and a two-time winner of The Best of The Hollywood Fringe Festival Extension for solo performance. Bill teaches Voiceovers for Storytellers® for The Screen Actors Guild Foundation, SAG-AFTRA, and at storytelling conferences across the country. He holds a Masters in Fine Arts from U.C. Riverside/Palm Desert, and is a member of Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television & Radio Artists, Actors Equity Association, and the National Storytelling Network.
“The man made a career out of lending his voice to some of the most aggressive advertising powerhouses around…And his lifetime of work in the industry make his perspective a useful one.” -- TIME