feature films
stranger in the house | 2024
Producer: Republic Pictures
Director: Jeff Fisher
Description: Coached lead actors for roles
image of you | 2023
Producer: Paramount +
Director: Jeff Fisher
Description: Coached two lead adults for roles
Insurgent | 2017
Producer: Barry Waldman
Director: Robert Schwentke
Desciption: Coached actors on opening sequence of the movie
big miracle | 2012
Producer: Steve Golan
Director: Ken Kwapis
Description: Coached Inupiat native Alaskans for lead roles
up | 2010
Producer: Pixar—Denise Reams
Director: Peter Doctor
Description: Coached lead boy for the role of Russell
por vida | 2007
Director: Alan Jacob
Description: Prepared actors and on-set coach for 5 inner city women for lead roles in film
sisterhood of the traveling pants | 2006
Producers: Alcon Pictures—Debra Martin Chase
Director: Ken Kwapis
Description: Worked with Director in coaching lead actresses
next big thing | 2002
Producer: Lakewood Productions/Tom Rosenberg
Director: John Schlesinger
Description: Coached a young actor playing Madonna’s son
mafia | 1999
Producers: Touchstone Pictures/Disney—Bill Badalato
Director: Jim Abrahams
Description: Coached 7 actors for starring and co-starring roles
KRIPPENDORF’S TRIBE | 1998
Producer: Larry Brezner
Director: Todd Holland
Description: Coached 2 actors for lead roles
PAULIE: A PARROT’S TALE | 1997
Producer: Dreamworks/Ginny Nugent
Director: John Roberts
Description: Coached 5 year old for leading role with a stutter
sleepers | 1996
Propaganda Films/Warner Bros.
Producers: Steve Galin and Peter Guiliano
Director: Barry Levinson
Description: Coached actors for lead roles: Joe Perrino, Geoff Wigdor, & Brad Renfro
tom and huck | 1995
Lawrence Mark Productions
Producer: John Beldecki and Barry Bernardi
Director: Peter Hewitt
Description: Coached Brad Renfro for the role of Huckleberry Finn
foxfire | 1995
Chestnut Hill Productions
Producer: John Marsh
Description: Coached Jenny Schimitzu for lead role/consulted with Angelina Jolie
operation: dumbo drop | 1994
Disney Pictures/Interscope
Producer: Diane Nabatoff/David Madden
Director: Simon Wincer
Description: Coached Vietnamese actor—Dinh Le
the cure | 1994
Island World Pictures/Universal
Producer: Mark Burg
Director: Peter Horton
Description:
the client | 1993
Warner Brothers
Producer: Aron Milchan
Description: Coached two boys for 1st starring roles focusing on Brad Renfro
trojan war | 1996
Producer: Charles Gordon
Director: George Huang
Description: Coached 8 actresses for screen tests. Prepared actors on first two weeks of shoot.
wild kingdom, i'll be home for christmas, speedway junky, uncommon ground | 1996–1998
Warner Bros. and Disney
Description: Coached Jonathan Taylor Thomas privately for lead roles
i know what you did last summer 2 | 1996
Description: Coached Brandy privately for lead role
television
the connors | 2021–2022
Producer: Barbara Brace
Description: Coached actress for her role on the series
broke (working title) | 2019
Producer: CBS Studios
Director: Victor Gonzalez
instant mom — pilot and tv series | 2012–2016
Nickelodeon
Descriptions: Coached lead actors
every witch way | 2013
Nickelodeon
Description: Coached series actors
haunted hathaways — pilot | 2012
Nickelodeon
Description: Coached lead actors
how to work — 22 episodes | 2012
Producers: David Israel
Description: Coached lead actors
parenthood — 2 seasons | 2012–2014
Producers: Ron Howard, Larry Trilling
sons of tucson — Pilot and 13 episodes | 2009
Producer: Todd Holland
Description: Coached three boys playing lead roles & lead actress
nip'tuck — 4 years | 2004–2009
Producers: Touchstone Pictures/Disney—Bill Badalato
Director: Jim Abrahams
Description: Coached 7 actors for starring and co-starring roles
malcolm in the middle — 7 years | 1998–2006
Directors: Todd Holland, Linwood Boomer, Ken Kwapis, Peter Lauer
Executive Producer: Linwood Boomer
Fox Television - on set coach for all of young actors
about a boy — Pilot | 2006
Director: Kwen Kwapis
Producer: Mathew Carlson
Bernie mac show — pilot | 1999
Director: Kwen Kwapis
Producer: Larry Wilmore
FOX Television–On set coach for all children on the pilot
First do no harm | 1996
ABC Movie of the Week
Producer: Meryl Streep, Jim Abrahams, and Michael Jaffe
Director: Jim Abrahams
Description: Coached young boy for lead role with epilepsy
Indictment: the mcmartin preschool story-HBO/oliver stone
Producer: Diana Pokorny
Director: Mick Jackson
Description: Coached 6 actors for supporting roles
teaching
Loyola Marymount College — Teaching Professor | Present
Sitcom for the Actor
Creating Character Through Improvisation
Graduate Program - Teaching Improvisation
Business School Improvisations for Entrepreneur
ucla extension
Acting for the Camera
Acting for the Non-Professional
demo tapes
Private audition classes & on camera classes
Imagination Workshop, Artistic Director
Trained 50 actors, writers, and directors in a theatre technique using Improvisation and Playwriting with special populations–children-at-risk in inner city schools, physically and mentally abused children in state Hospitals and adults.
Directed six plays, developed with children/adults using improvisational theatre, scripted and performed at UCLA/Neuropsychiatric Institute & Hospital