“Play is the highest form of research.”

—Albert Einstein

Play is how an actor works it all out. And class is where play happens best. I guide actors in my New York City classes, and bring bespoke workshops to artists across the country.

Check out the full list of offerings, and let’s play!

Classes + Coaching: Summer 2025 NYC

Registration Open!

  • For the committed, adult actor at any level of skill and experience, this class provides a place to work out your actor muscles, work through your creative growing pains and work with other actors who are equally dedicated to their craft. Receive custom-tailored coaching on a wide range of material of your choice. Class is limited to 8. You'll work every week.

    6 Mondays. June 23, 30, July 7, 14, 21 and 28.
    6:00-9:00pm
    $300

  • Sessions are tailor made to you. Audition material, self-taping, role preparation, dialect acquisition. Work through creative blocks. Book a single session, or save with a package and gift yourself a deeper commitment to your craft.

  • During these one-on-one sessions, we will unearth your deepest wisdom by taking an embodied dive into archetypal energy, dream symbolism, anima/animus and shadow work. Perfect for actors and writers who want to explore a depth psychology approach to their creative process and personal journey. Due to the nature of these sessions, Jungian coaching is offered in packages of 5 only.

  • A member of Stanislavski’s First Studio of The Moscow Art Theatre, Michael Chekhov was an actor, director and teacher whose approach to the craft was intensely psycho-physical. He devoted his life to developing a healthy, imaginative method centered on gesture, impulse, transformation and creative individuality. Most people who discover his work are in awe of the simplicity and ease his techniques open up in them. I trained and certified with Master Teachers Lisa Dalton and Wil Kilroy of the National Michael Chekhov Association. Chekhov’s framework underpins all my teaching.

  • Based on the eight key emotions identified in the Natyasastra, a Sanskrit text dealing with theatre, art and music, Rasaboxes training was developed by Richard Schechner at NYU. The rasas invite the performer to work holistically — breath, body, mind, voice — to explore the simplicity and complexity of human emotions, individually and in community. I learned the Rasaboxes from Michele Minnick, who guided my use of the method in my university teaching and I continue to offer this incredibly creative and freeing work to professional actors in my private classes.

  • Inspired by Kristin Linklater’s Sound + Movement progression, Louis Colaianni created the phonetic pillows as a way to elevate and invigorate the dry, one-dimensional, narrow dialect training usually offered to actors in conservatory programs. Borrowing from Maria Montessori’s work, Louis invented a system that employs the use of phonetic symbol-shaped pillows to bring deep connection and true physicality to vocal work. I trained directly with Louis in a one-on-one mentorship over several years and am certified to teach his work. I am also the proud steward of my own set of pillows, which I joyfully lug with me far and wide to share this method. It is visceral, sensual, profound and incredibly freeing.

  • As artists we are asked to access, expose and express all the parts of ourselves, known and unknown. And we often find ourselves bumping up against discomfort, shame and frustration when we “can’t deliver” and don’t know why. I believe that part of our job is to turn over the rock, face what’s there and integrate it into the whole. Carl Jung said “one does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.” The work I do with actors and writers in this realm is a blend of Michael Chekhov’s archetypal and psychological gesture, Jungian coaching and my own creative process tools. It is intimate, illuminating and transformative.

My approach

I do not subscribe to one method or approach to acting. My work is grounded in a variety of systems that share a common purpose: freeing the actor’s instrument so that it may serve as a divine channel for storytelling. I regularly offer classes and workshops in the techniques listed below, but any class you experience with me will be one that engages your physical, emotional and spiritual body.