I have been teaching directors how to work with actors since 1994. In Los Angeles, I led workshops with
Mark W. Travis at the Directors’ Guild, American Film Institute, UCLA Extension, Hollywood Actors Workshop, and Hollywood Film Institute, and taught Directing Actors For Film, Script Analysis, and Rehearsal Techniques on faculty in the Film and TV Department at Loyola Marymount University Extension and Santa Monica College. Between 1999 and 2007 I lived in Athens, Greece, where I was on faculty in the Film and TV Department at New York College, and taught at Theatre of Change, Dramatic School “Arhi”, T-Shorts – the Short Film Directors Union, Old Global Machine Productions and created my own private workshops for actors and directors. Focus has included: the rehearsal process, methods of staging, directing comedy, directing children, scenes of intimacy, character/improvisation/theatre games, blocking for the camera, and the casting process. I have directed theatre and taught actors and film directors in New York, Los Angeles, Athens and Lisbon. My students have gone on to win awards at the Los Angeles Greek Film Festival, Thessoloniki International Film Festival, Thessolonikli Documentary Film Festival, Rhodes International Film Festival, and Drama International Short Film Festival.
TEACHING – ACTING/DIRECTING
Loyola Marymount University Extension, Los Angeles
Directing Actors for Film, Script Analysis and Rehearsal Techniques
Santa Monica College Continuing Education
Directing Actors for Film
Oficinas Teatro Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
Directing Actors for Film, Acting Technique
New York College, TV and Film Dept., Athens, Greece
Directing Actors for Film, Script Analysis and Rehearsal Techniques
Theatre of Change, Athens, Greece
Directing Actors for Film, Scene Study, Acting Technique, Improvisation
Dramatic School “Archi”, Athens, Greece
Directing Actors for Film, Scene Study, Script Analysis, Rehearsal Process
Old Global Machine Productions, Athens, Greece
Directing Actors for Film, Script Analysis, Rehearsal Techniques, Casting
UCLA Extension, Entertainment Studies
Hollywood Film Institute
Directors Guild of America
Hollywood Actors Workshop
Directing Actors for Film Workshops, in collaboration with Mark W. Travis
TEACHING ARTIST/OUTREACH ACTIVITIES
East LA Classic Theatre, Los Angeles
Resident Teaching Artist in a theatre and writing based program for language and literacy with at-risk youth and English language learners, culminating in a collaborative piece written and performed by the students
Young Storytellers Foundation, Los Angeles
Creative writing, screenwriting, and performance mentor with inner-city elementary students, whose screenplays receive theatrical performances
Virginia Ave. Project, Los Angeles
Performing Arts Mentor, teaching playwriting, acting in and directing projects with inner-city youth growing up under difficult circumstances
Screen Actors Guild - BookPals, We the Children
Literacy Advocate, Writing Mentor
Create Now!, Los Angeles
Writing mentor for youth in juvenile detention, performer in their created plays
Lower East Side Tenement Museum, New York City
Solo performer, educational outreach, curricular development -Jewish immigrant experience
EDUCATION
The Drama Studio London, Graduate in Acting
San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Graduate in Classical Piano
San Francisco State University, M.S. in Communication Disorders
Syracuse University, B.S. in Communication Sciences and Disorders
University of Arizona, Post-Graduate in Psychophysical Acoustics
Berkeley Shakespeare Festival: Patrick Tucker, Anthony Taccone, Tony Amendola
Bay Area Playwrights Festival: Sam Shepard, Joseph Chaikin. Robert Woodruff
Technique: Tony Greco, Alice Spivak, Elinor Renfield, Michael Arabian, Rod Menzies, Mark Travis,
Lynn Redgrave, Brian Reise, The Actors' Gang, Steve Kaplan
TV/Film/Commercial: Joy Todd, Bobby Hoffman, Terry Berland, Loretta Palazzo,
Kalmenson & Kalmenson
American Conservatory Theatre: Voice/Speech
Pickle Family Circus: Geoff Hoyle, Comedy/Improvisation
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Screen Actors Guild- American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, Actors Equity Association,
Who’s Who of American Women, Who's Who in the World, UN Women, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
Mark W. Travis at the Directors’ Guild, American Film Institute, UCLA Extension, Hollywood Actors Workshop, and Hollywood Film Institute, and taught Directing Actors For Film, Script Analysis, and Rehearsal Techniques on faculty in the Film and TV Department at Loyola Marymount University Extension and Santa Monica College. Between 1999 and 2007 I lived in Athens, Greece, where I was on faculty in the Film and TV Department at New York College, and taught at Theatre of Change, Dramatic School “Arhi”, T-Shorts – the Short Film Directors Union, Old Global Machine Productions and created my own private workshops for actors and directors. Focus has included: the rehearsal process, methods of staging, directing comedy, directing children, scenes of intimacy, character/improvisation/theatre games, blocking for the camera, and the casting process. I have directed theatre and taught actors and film directors in New York, Los Angeles, Athens and Lisbon. My students have gone on to win awards at the Los Angeles Greek Film Festival, Thessoloniki International Film Festival, Thessolonikli Documentary Film Festival, Rhodes International Film Festival, and Drama International Short Film Festival.
TEACHING – ACTING/DIRECTING
Loyola Marymount University Extension, Los Angeles
Directing Actors for Film, Script Analysis and Rehearsal Techniques
Santa Monica College Continuing Education
Directing Actors for Film
Oficinas Teatro Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
Directing Actors for Film, Acting Technique
New York College, TV and Film Dept., Athens, Greece
Directing Actors for Film, Script Analysis and Rehearsal Techniques
Theatre of Change, Athens, Greece
Directing Actors for Film, Scene Study, Acting Technique, Improvisation
Dramatic School “Archi”, Athens, Greece
Directing Actors for Film, Scene Study, Script Analysis, Rehearsal Process
Old Global Machine Productions, Athens, Greece
Directing Actors for Film, Script Analysis, Rehearsal Techniques, Casting
UCLA Extension, Entertainment Studies
Hollywood Film Institute
Directors Guild of America
Hollywood Actors Workshop
Directing Actors for Film Workshops, in collaboration with Mark W. Travis
TEACHING ARTIST/OUTREACH ACTIVITIES
East LA Classic Theatre, Los Angeles
Resident Teaching Artist in a theatre and writing based program for language and literacy with at-risk youth and English language learners, culminating in a collaborative piece written and performed by the students
Young Storytellers Foundation, Los Angeles
Creative writing, screenwriting, and performance mentor with inner-city elementary students, whose screenplays receive theatrical performances
Virginia Ave. Project, Los Angeles
Performing Arts Mentor, teaching playwriting, acting in and directing projects with inner-city youth growing up under difficult circumstances
Screen Actors Guild - BookPals, We the Children
Literacy Advocate, Writing Mentor
Create Now!, Los Angeles
Writing mentor for youth in juvenile detention, performer in their created plays
Lower East Side Tenement Museum, New York City
Solo performer, educational outreach, curricular development -Jewish immigrant experience
EDUCATION
The Drama Studio London, Graduate in Acting
San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Graduate in Classical Piano
San Francisco State University, M.S. in Communication Disorders
Syracuse University, B.S. in Communication Sciences and Disorders
University of Arizona, Post-Graduate in Psychophysical Acoustics
Berkeley Shakespeare Festival: Patrick Tucker, Anthony Taccone, Tony Amendola
Bay Area Playwrights Festival: Sam Shepard, Joseph Chaikin. Robert Woodruff
Technique: Tony Greco, Alice Spivak, Elinor Renfield, Michael Arabian, Rod Menzies, Mark Travis,
Lynn Redgrave, Brian Reise, The Actors' Gang, Steve Kaplan
TV/Film/Commercial: Joy Todd, Bobby Hoffman, Terry Berland, Loretta Palazzo,
Kalmenson & Kalmenson
American Conservatory Theatre: Voice/Speech
Pickle Family Circus: Geoff Hoyle, Comedy/Improvisation
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Screen Actors Guild- American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, Actors Equity Association,
Who’s Who of American Women, Who's Who in the World, UN Women, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
