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PRIVATE ACTING COACH
On-Set Coaching / Audition Coaching For Actors
Our top-tier acting coaches travel all over the world to sets from Hollywood to Bollywood, Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Shanghai, Beijing, Rome and the most remote locations in between to bring the best possible performances out of your cast. Our coaches are professionals in the industry that have worked with Robert DeNiro, Matt Damon, John Turturro, Robert Downey Jr., Alec Baldwin, Sam Waterston, Mickey Rourke, James Gandolfini, Vincent D’Onofrio, David Strathairn, and Willem Dafoe to name a few. In addition our coaches are available to work on a private basis with clients in need of in-depth character coaching for role preparation or those looking for audition prep services.
Private Acting Coaches
As many of our coaches are also the instructors on staff at our acclaimed Acting for Film conservatory, they are also expert at helping beginners on a one-on-one private instruction basis if so desired. The New York Film Academy’s extraordinary faculty is what makes it the training academy of choice for the children of major Hollywood players such as Steven Spielberg, Susan Sarandon, Kevin Kline, Pierce Brosnan, Melanie Griffith and F. Murray Abraham.
For more information contact Michael Young,myoung@nyfa.com
Our Team:
Glenn Kalison
Films: Robert De Niro’s The Good Shepherd, A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints, Mystery Team (Sundance Film Festival ’09); TV: Law & Order, Law & Order: CI, Mercy (NBC Pilot), Lights Out (FX Pilot), As the World Turns (CBS), Guiding Light (CBS); Theatre: many Off-Broadway and regional productions. Chair, Acting for Film Department at New York Film Academy, MFA from UC, Irvine.
Bela Grushka
Studio-Uta Hagen, National Conservatory of Dramatic Arts - PARIS. She has directed many plays in Paris and acted in numerous American and European films and television shows, including "2 Days in Paris", performing with Martin Sheen, James Gandolfini, Sam Waterston, David Straithairn, Jean Reno, Lee Remick.
Victor Verhaeghe
Guest starring roles on numerous television shows, including Law & Order, Fringe, Sex and the City, and many more.
Zenon Kruszelnicki
MFA in Acting from National Academy of Drama in Poland and MFA in Directing from New School for Social Research in New York City. He is a member of SSDC, The Actors Studio, FIA, ZASP and SAG. In 2004 he professionally coached Willem Dafoe. Artisitic grant from the Liberace Foundation for the Performing and Creative Arts in 1998-2000
Donnetta Lavinia Grays
Television/Film credits include The Sopranos, Law and Order: CI, Law and Order: SVU (4 year recurring role), Darren Aronofsky’s The Wrestler with Mickey Rourke. Theater credits include Broadway (Well) and numerous Off-Broadway and Regional Theater productions. National on-camera and voice over commercial work for Coca-Cola, Value-City, Nickelodeon, BET and others. MFA from UC, Irvine.
Anna Cianciulli
Editor, Sanford Meisner’s On Acting, Italian Edition. Nominated Best Actress, International Festival of Cinema and Technology. Artistic Director of BdA the Arts [enter] Theater. Numerous leading roles on New York stage and film.
Michael Laibson
Emmy Award-winning Executive Producer of soaps including Guiding Light, Another World and As the World Turns.
PAUL WARNER
BA, Harvard University; MFA, American Film Institute. Princess Grace Award, Ashley Amulis Fellowship for directing. Feature film, Fall Time, Winner of the Cine Golden Eagle.
SHIRA-LEE SHALIT
MFA, Film, Columbia University. BFA, Drama, NYU. Student Academy Award finalist for short film, Full Cycle. Winner, Presidential Scholar of the Arts for Acting. Winner, Acting Award, National Foundation of the Arts.
Cobey Mandarino
TV work includes "Law & Order", "Six Degrees", "Saturday Night Live". Worked with Alec Baldwin in "Mister Roberts" and in Roundabout’s "Streamers" with J.D. Williams. MFA, DePaul University.
Glynis Rigsby
Fox Foundation Fellow. Former Artistic Associate, American Conservatory Theater. Directing credits include New School for Drama, Yale Center for British Art, Naked Angels, New Dramatists. MFA, Yale School of Drama.
NORMAN B. SCHWARTZ
NORMAN B. SCHWARTZ studied acting with Sanford Meisner and directing with Professor Haig Manoogian. He is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and the founding artistic director of the Santa Barbara Actors Theater and the Victoria Hall Theater Company in California. He has taught acting, directing and writing for the NYFA in Hungary, Spain, Italy and Abu Dhabi.
Our top-tier acting coaches travel all over the world to sets from Hollywood to Bollywood, Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Shanghai, Beijing, Rome and the most remote locations in between to bring the best possible performances out of your cast. Our coaches are professionals in the industry that have worked with Robert DeNiro, Matt Damon, John Turturro, Robert Downey Jr., Alec Baldwin, Sam Waterston, Mickey Rourke, James Gandolfini, Vincent D’Onofrio, David Strathairn, and Willem Dafoe to name a few. In addition our coaches are available to work on a private basis with clients in need of in-depth character coaching for role preparation or those looking for audition prep services.
Private Acting Coaches
As many of our coaches are also the instructors on staff at our acclaimed Acting for Film conservatory, they are also expert at helping beginners on a one-on-one private instruction basis if so desired. The New York Film Academy’s extraordinary faculty is what makes it the training academy of choice for the children of major Hollywood players such as Steven Spielberg, Susan Sarandon, Kevin Kline, Pierce Brosnan, Melanie Griffith and F. Murray Abraham.
For more information contact Michael Young,myoung@nyfa.com
Our Team:
Glenn KalisonFilms: Robert De Niro’s The Good Shepherd, A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints, Mystery Team (Sundance Film Festival ’09); TV: Law & Order, Law & Order: CI, Mercy (NBC Pilot), Lights Out (FX Pilot), As the World Turns (CBS), Guiding Light (CBS); Theatre: many Off-Broadway and regional productions. Chair, Acting for Film Department at New York Film Academy, MFA from UC, Irvine.
Bela GrushkaStudio-Uta Hagen, National Conservatory of Dramatic Arts - PARIS. She has directed many plays in Paris and acted in numerous American and European films and television shows, including "2 Days in Paris", performing with Martin Sheen, James Gandolfini, Sam Waterston, David Straithairn, Jean Reno, Lee Remick.
Victor VerhaegheGuest starring roles on numerous television shows, including Law & Order, Fringe, Sex and the City, and many more.
Zenon KruszelnickiMFA in Acting from National Academy of Drama in Poland and MFA in Directing from New School for Social Research in New York City. He is a member of SSDC, The Actors Studio, FIA, ZASP and SAG. In 2004 he professionally coached Willem Dafoe. Artisitic grant from the Liberace Foundation for the Performing and Creative Arts in 1998-2000
Donnetta Lavinia GraysTelevision/Film credits include The Sopranos, Law and Order: CI, Law and Order: SVU (4 year recurring role), Darren Aronofsky’s The Wrestler with Mickey Rourke. Theater credits include Broadway (Well) and numerous Off-Broadway and Regional Theater productions. National on-camera and voice over commercial work for Coca-Cola, Value-City, Nickelodeon, BET and others. MFA from UC, Irvine.
Anna CianciulliEditor, Sanford Meisner’s On Acting, Italian Edition. Nominated Best Actress, International Festival of Cinema and Technology. Artistic Director of BdA the Arts [enter] Theater. Numerous leading roles on New York stage and film.
Michael LaibsonEmmy Award-winning Executive Producer of soaps including Guiding Light, Another World and As the World Turns.
PAUL WARNERBA, Harvard University; MFA, American Film Institute. Princess Grace Award, Ashley Amulis Fellowship for directing. Feature film, Fall Time, Winner of the Cine Golden Eagle.
SHIRA-LEE SHALITMFA, Film, Columbia University. BFA, Drama, NYU. Student Academy Award finalist for short film, Full Cycle. Winner, Presidential Scholar of the Arts for Acting. Winner, Acting Award, National Foundation of the Arts.
Cobey MandarinoTV work includes "Law & Order", "Six Degrees", "Saturday Night Live". Worked with Alec Baldwin in "Mister Roberts" and in Roundabout’s "Streamers" with J.D. Williams. MFA, DePaul University.
Glynis RigsbyFox Foundation Fellow. Former Artistic Associate, American Conservatory Theater. Directing credits include New School for Drama, Yale Center for British Art, Naked Angels, New Dramatists. MFA, Yale School of Drama.
NORMAN B. SCHWARTZNORMAN B. SCHWARTZ studied acting with Sanford Meisner and directing with Professor Haig Manoogian. He is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and the founding artistic director of the Santa Barbara Actors Theater and the Victoria Hall Theater Company in California. He has taught acting, directing and writing for the NYFA in Hungary, Spain, Italy and Abu Dhabi.
