Acting Lessons & Classes in Bridle Trails

I am ready to meet with actors of all ages and experience levels. This business is fast moving and can be vague at times leaving you wondering what could you have done differently if you didn't book the job. I want you to succeed, but first you need the proper tools to get to that next level of your career. From my experience of working in LA and Chicago as well as drawing from previous instructors, you will learn more than just basic acting exercises. Gain an upper hand on your contemporaries!

Carolyn began working professionally at 8 years old and has since appeared on stage, in national commercials, recorded voiceovers, and booked principal roles in both film and television. She earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2011 from the Boston Conservatory, where she majored in musical theater with an emphasis in directing. She is currently in the hit Off-Broadway shows “My Big Gay Italian Wedding” and “My Big Gay Italian Funeral”. 

As the amazed grand-daughter of David Smason, a successful vaudeville Orchestra leader, I have enjoyed many years of educational and professional experiences as an actress, teacher, and director in venues of all sizes. Besides performing leading and supporting roles in over 30 productions, including Suzie-" Wait Until Dark", Rosemary- "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying", Miss Mazeppa-"Gypsy", Lalume " Kismet", I also performed and/or staged several original reviews such as SF's " The Distractions", " On Being Female", and " The Van Spronsen Variety Showcase". Directing/coaching "The Sound of Music", multiple productions of "Amahl and the Night Visitors" and "Your a Good Man Charlie Brown" leading orchestras, choirs, and workshops for churches, schools and communities has given me a strong appreciation for artistic collaboration. earning a BA in Theater Arts from SFSU, all ages and levels, comic to tragic, specializing in musicals, I have successfully ...

For me as an actor, the benefit of a great coach or director has always been that they've helped me reach places in my work I couldn't have achieved on my own. As a coach myself, I'm most thrilled by those small (or monumental!) breakthroughs that my students and I discover together during the coaching process. The cool thing is that I've found the progress my students make in their craft will often inspire me to new heights in my own. (A bonus to already enriching work)!

If you want to develop new material for upcoming auditions, hone and refresh (or completely change) your monologues, or simply work on the craft of acting, I can help. I work to gear your coaching sessions to the goals you need to achieve, offering an experience created around what you need to work on and want to learn.

With a BFA in Acting and Directing, an MFA in Classical Acting, and over 20 years of professional acting experience in the theatre and on-camera, I can offer tools for your tool belt ...

Acting is such a broad term! What are your goals? Do you want to be in films? Do you want to do Shakespeare? Do you want to be in a sit com? Depending upon what your interests are and where you want to go, we will build a plan together. My philosophy on acting techniques is that they are tools to help you, not tests you pass if you're a good actor and fail if you're a bad one. Different techniques work for different people and it is our job to find out what inspires you.

I've worked as a professional actor for many years, performed on Broadway, have my MFA in Performing Arts, and my BA in Arts and Education. I was an assistant director to Tony-winner Sharon Ott and have written and produced my own work. I have experience in both stage and camera acting, which have specific technical differences, but are both a lot of fun once you get used to the medium. Audition technique, preparing monologues, and creating promotional materials are also things I can help with. Anyone who wants to ...

Teaching came to me through the recommendations of my own acting teachers. When I followed their advice I found that I could really connect and communicate with my students with the same clarity and communication that I had with other actors. I found that I could really assess and convey to them what they needed to really crystallize both their experience and delivery of a given character and/ or scene, and in such a way that they REALLY enjoy the process! Together we take them on a journey of enhanced self-discovery and delivery. My lifetime in the performing arts, close to 20 years of professional acting (on both coasts), years of intensive study with some of the true greats (Gary Austin, Dave Razowsky, Barbara Niven, Terry Schreiber, Wenndy Mackenzie, Jeffrey Sweet, Carol Fox Prescott, and others), and experience directing, casting, and producing in Los Angeles all inform the process we engage. I'm proud to say that many of my students have exclaimed that my class was the best, or ...

Tony Nominated Broadway Producer Stephanie Rosenberg has been teaching acting for years both in class rooms and private settings to a variety of ages and level of actors.

A graduate of Samford Meisner's Neighborhood Playhouse School of Theater, a BFA in Acting from Adelphi University, and a working knowledge of what it takes to make it in the market today, Stephanie is passionate about supporting her students to meet their artistic goals.

Whether you are looking for a good basic technique on which to build your career, or how to nail your next audition, Stephanie will support you in an approach you can count on again and again.

Stephanie has also supported students in creating a game plan in approaching their career development.

Stephanie utilizes techniques by Meisner, Stanislvaski, and other great masters to support her students to reach their goals, all while coming from a compassionate point of view. Her technique will teaches her students how to be self empowered in ...

Students can expect to work on the following when training as an actor with me: Scene study, monologue work, audition preparation, unlocking the text, and assistance with self-tapes. These lessons will build you confidence and your instrument as an actor!

Whether you are just starting out or an experienced voice actor or podcast host I can help you with general tips, exercises, critiques of delivery or content (in terms of podcast hosting) or preparing for a specific audition. I have 20 years of experience as a radio host and voice-over actress.

I'm an experienced Teacher with over 10 years of coaching. My clients have gone on to be not only series regulars (Past and current) but stars in award winning films. What I love is watching a client go from not knowing to mastering.

My methodology is influenced by legendary Uta Hagen, my own acting coach, the renowned Roy London, and my contemporary mentor, the incredible Howard Fine. My personal experience as a young actor inspired me to create the kind of class I desired as a young actor, taught with respect for an actor’s intelligence and the “master” within them, empowering them with the tools, techniques, and discipline they need to succeed as professional actors.

My focus is scene study with the emphasis on script analysis and AUDITION TECHNIQUE. I’ve been called a “Actor Whisperer.” My passion and gift is working with actors of all ages and backgrounds which is why I work with them exclusively!