Acting with Lacey M.

Since a young age I have been influenced and surrounded by gifted individuals that have impacted my life and my career. Growing up in Los Angeles, California I have inherited many of my creative gifts from her Grandmother Connie Russell a famous singer and actress and her Grandfather Michael Zimring, an agent for William M. Agency. They gave me a great appreciation and understanding of what it took to be successful as an artist. I started my career by doing modeling at age five and went on to do dance performances at age seven. I continued to broaden her horizon by acting in plays, painting and singing. Later in life I took these gifts and decided to teach adults, and children the importance of self confidence and creativity. I have worked in many organizations with the intention to transform lives through the performing arts. Including a Creative Director for Performing Arts Academy, where I taught performing arts for two consecutive years, creating and implementing a powerful curriculum which incorporated improv, the arts and self empowerment. For the past five years I have taught ages five to 45 modeling, dancing, acting and singing at a Talent Agency in Los Angeles, and San Francisco. I have also been proud of being a choreographer for the musical Westside Story in San Francisco. As well as a musical director for Jungle Book. I currently holds a BA in Musical Theater, and is am pursuing a Masters degree in Counseling and Expressive Arts Therapy. Lessons with me will be all about building the confidence to tackle any character you need to!! I will assist you with continually getting out of your own way and surrendering into the moment with each character you are playing. We will laugh, be silly, do some fun improv warm up exercises every time and it will be so stimulating, you will definitely want to come back for more. My approach is a humanistic approach so you will learn about your deep strengths as an actor. And within each lesson you will learn to tap into those strengths and grab them from your tool box at any given time. We will also work on camera a little bit each time so you can get comfortable being in front of a camera. That way you can watch back yourself and learn what works and what didn't work. I will constantly be your Cheerleader and cheer you on to be the Best you, you can be!! Who wouldn't want a cheerleader by their side? One who has a lot of experience in Educating others to become professional stellar actors. Let's do this!!! *** Examples of some Lesson's although these are usually crafted depending on my actors needs *** Lesson 1 Topic: Improvisation: Big Picture/What Do My Students Need to Absolutely Understand or know how to do at the end of this hour? What Improvisation IS, WHY they are learning it, and HOW to do it. 1. Explain, Entice, Engage what improv is. 2. Key elements- strong character type choices, strong objective, keep it moving forward via objective and physical actions. 3. Improv skills enhance scripted work 4. Improv sharpens your reflexes & creates more interesting choices Feedback/Recap/Assignments-Use the WWG/WCBI feedback model. Encourage them to watch Who's Line Is It, Anyway to see improv at its finest. Lesson 2 Topic : Scene Study. These classes are helpful when an actor wants to learn how to analyze text. Most performers work from a script that has already been written. In order for an actor to convey the meaning of this text to his or her audience, he or she must be able to understand the meaning of the text on a number of levels. Once you have learned to listen and respond to your fellow actors, you must learn how to clearly communicate the meaning behind your given response. Scene study classes teach actors how to read and analyze a script so that he or she can derive what aspect of the text is the most important or meaningful in each scene. It is important to know what each character is aiming for with each cue, either verbal or physical. This class will give you the tools needed to uncover which emotions and situations actually drive a scene forward with urgency and help the actor answer the question,Why must my character say these words now? etc Lesson 3 Topic: Physical Acting and the Five senses Big Picture/What Do My Students Need to Absolutely Know how to do at the end of this hour? How to powerfully use their 5 senses to bring their scene work alive. 1. Explain the what, why and how. Explain the 5 senses. 2. Conduct a closed-eye process with students. See pg. 30. 3. Then play the game on pg. 32 4. At the end, ask them how easy it is to use your 5 senses now? Whether using real or imagined sensory experiences- reinforce how easily and powerfully they can use this tool in every type of acting- stage, screen, commercials and improv. *** Studio Equipment *** Digital JVC Camera, and TV to watch back clips *** Travel Equipment *** JVC Camcorder to Lessons *** Specialties *** Improv, Comedic and Dramatic Monologues, Musical Theater, Singing, Blocking Scenes, Dance