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Elisa Eliot Acting Coach, Los Angeles:
Elisa Eliot is an acting coach and industry coach in Santa Monica, Los Angeles and Palo Alto in the San Francisco Bay Area of California. I offer private acting lessons, group acting classes, industry consultation and on-set coaching, to beginners, professionals, children and adults. In addition to giving you the tools and techniques to become a better actor, I will also apply my experience in the industry to help you market yourself, network successfully, and book the roles you want.

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Some of the most popular methods I teach are:

•Stanislavski
•Method acting
•Brechtian concepts
•Chekhov
•Meissner
•Classical technique
•Viewpoints
•Adler

In addition to helping you achieve your own personal acting goals, my goal is to teach you:

•Cold Reading and Auditioning Skills
•Text Analysis and Interpretation of sides
•Monologue Preparation
•Improvisation Techniques and Exercises
•Pre-Audition and Callback Preparation
•Tapping and Exploring your Emotional Depths
•Comedic Timing and Making your Jokes Work
•Acting Tactics and Objectives
•Timing, Rhythm, and Control
•Expanding you Acting Range with Character Work and Dialects
•Eliminating Vocal Tics and Speech Impediments
•Eliminating Bad Acting Habits
•Sticking out to Casting Directors
•Getting Noticed at Auditions
•Nuances of Performing and Auditioning for Film, Television, Commercial, Stage

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Address: Santa Monica, Los Angeles, California , USA

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