Performance Direction

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Public Speaking and
Presentation Delivery

Big work presentation or public speaking engagement? Maybe a TEDx or Keynote? Enlist Cheryl's experience as your personal stage or to-camera director to ensure stellar delivery every time you speak or present. She'll help you shape and rehearse your public speaking performance or presentation, giving you practical techniques to positively influence and impact your audience through these secrets of the theatre:

  • Aligning and Connecting w/ Audience
  • Storytelling and Humor
  • Gesture
  • Movement and Mapping for Meaning
  • Emphasis, Variety, Pace and Pause
  • Emotion and Intention

Contact Cheryl to discuss your goals and time-frame.

"When you walk, do you feel like you're dancing?  When you talk, do you feel like you're singing?" --Arthur Lessac

Services for Adult Performing Artists to Refine Craft:

  • Voice & Speech Training focusing on the demands of Public Performance, live or virtual
  • Acting Audition Coaching and Direction
  • Role Preparation & Character Development
  • Script Interpretation
  • On-Camera Techniques

Cheryl's mission is to help actors and other performers find themselves in the work and feel playfully empowered in the process.  She has coached and directed performing artists since 1974, from a strong base in Stanislavsky and employing the techniques of Viola Spolin and Uta Hagen.
Her voice & speech work is deeply rooted in Lessac, and influenced by Linklater.

Available as Individual Coaching, or as Custom Classes for your group. Sliding fee scale.
(Note: 1-->1 Coaching is for actors who already have training and are at an intermediate-to-advanced level. Beginners must work in a group.)

Adults,18 and over.

Contact Cheryl to discuss your goals and time-frame.

"Acting is behaving truthfully under imaginary circumstances." --Sanford Meisner

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