Performing Arts Lessons in Fulton, MD. It's your time.

Instruction and coaching: Public speaking as an individual or as part of a group discussion. Also one person performance to interacting with others in any stage production. We'll cover voice control, movement, interacting with an audience, preparation and making your time on stage comfortable as well as memorable.

Also known as voice-over. Any time you hear the voice, but do not see the face connected to it. The unseen announcer, animations, supplying the voice for another actor.

So much of communication on stage, or in TV or film is done with body language, facial expressions, movements, actions, and voice to tell the story. A voice-over artist has to do it all with just her voice.

I am a lifelong actor and passionate teacher-- and I would love to take your work to the next level!

As a teaching artist, I have worked with students age 5-88 on audition preparation, role development, and physical and vocal technique. I am a certified Yoga teacher, and I love to draw on principles of mindfulness in performance preparation.

As your coach, we will patiently and persistently discover the methods that enable your absolute best work. From Linklater voice work, to Mask exercises, to silly vocal exercises, we will develop a system that works for you. Best of all: we'll have a blast doing it.

I want you to explore what it's like to experience the unbelievable amount of satisfaction you can have by allowing yourself to study acting and music. I teach from a method base and will work on monologues, scenes and audition materials, collaborating with you on what it is you need to understand how we go about doing this thing called acting. I can work virtually. One thing you must know about me, I am really nice. I won't crush your dreams. I will, however, help you attain them. I can come to you or you can meet me where I teach. I am in SF and Los Angeles. I successfully work virtually with many people. If you want to act, we can make it happen.

I have taught and choreographed professionally for almost 8 years, and started dancing 21 years ago. I am passionate about teaching the technique to dancing, but also how to move their body with style. I have trained and worked with some of the top choreographers in LA and have a large amount of experience in the dance industry. I can teach jazz, technique, hip hop, jazz funk, lyrical, and contemporary. I love to help kids and adults build their confidence, brand themselves as dancers, and give them top training with the years of knowledge I have.

I have been performing professionally for over 30 years and have appeared regionally in over 200 productions. For the past 25 years, I was Artistic Director at the nation's second-oldest dinner theatre, Chaffin's Barn in Nashville, Tennessee. Throughout my career I have had extensive coaching, directing and teaching experience with all ages. I possess a keen eye for comedy, improvisation, scene study, college audition prep for theatre majors, selling a song and owning the stage. My style is very laid back, kind and gentle and my main focus is keep things relaxed and fun. Acting and singing should be joyful moments for the student.