Film Acting with Blaire O.

I am a New York based actor, casting director, and teaching artist. I moved to New York to earn my BFA in Acting from Marymount Manhattan College. After graduating, I became a forever student. I joined The Barrow Group in 2011 as a member of the Apprentice Company. There I studied under Artistic Directors Seth & Lee Brock. I want on to perform and study there for years, in addition to completing their intensive teacher training program. I’ve also studied with Karen Kohlhaas of The Atlantic Theatre Company and Scott Freeman. I’ve also worked professionally - a proud member of AEA/SAG-AFTRA as an actor. NY theatre credits include work at HERE, 59E59, The Living Theatre, Governors Island, The Soho Playhouse, Queens Theatre, Dixon Place, Galapagos Arts Space, PopUP Theatrics, International Wow & Shrunken Shakespeare Company. I’ve also toured nationally, appearing on stages in Philadelphia, New Orleans, Detroit, and Colorado Springs. In 2012, I co-founded Exquisite Corpse Company, now entering it’s 9th season. I continue to work with the company, both as a resident performer and as the in-house casting director. Due to this, casting has become a part of the theatre and film making process that I love the most. I’ve gone on to cast a handful of other independent film and theatre projects. I love to bring this love and things I’ve learned from the other side of the table into coaching, As a teaching artist, I work with students of all ages and levels of experience. I currently teach adult and youth acting classes at The Barrow Group, as well as being on the faculty of New Jersey Performing Arts Center's in-school residency program teaching Devised Theatre. I have a large body of private students who I work with on specified needs including high school and college audition prep, professional audition prep, and in some cases just to explore for the first time!