Acting as an Artist
A Durable Actor Works on their Perishable skills
Your set of Perishables
- Voice
- Movement
- Analysis
- Memorization
- Improvisation
- Approaches/Techniques
Let's keep your skills sharp!
Menu / Price List
Acting Services
Realize your Potential
Audition Coaching
$75
I work with you on your audition side and help you nail it by making accurate, fun to play, and compelling choices. Buy a package to save money. Package holding customers will have priority in scheduling.
RATES
$75/hr -$25/every half hour after.
$50/hr $25/Every half hour after.
1st time ever coaching with me
$50/hr $25/Every half hour after if currently enrolled in my classes
Virtual Reader for Auditions
$15 per 1/2 hr
No Coaching needed? Awesome
Contact me and I'll hop on a zoom or phone call and read opposite of you while keeping things focused, fun, and productive so you can have a positive self tape experience.
$15 for 0 - 30 minutes.
Private Acting Training
$175 per Hour
We meet to assess the state of your craft and your goals. Figure out what your strengths and weaknesses are and develop an action based plan to help you level up, shore up your weaknesses and work with confidence.
I custom make program tailored specifically to you and your goals.
You will get priority in scheduling and have my contact information in order to ask time sensitive questions.
Available via zoom and in person.
Base Rate is $175 an hour.
10 pack - $1500 (250 Off)
20 pack $3,000 ($500 Off)
Memorization Assistant
$20 per hr
Are you preparing for an upcoming theater role or large role in a film and need help getting off book? Feeling overwhelmed?
Let me help! I've had years of experience working to be the most prepared person on set. I've come up with my own memorization technique and work with you to get to your deadline in a way that keeps things fun and works for you.
Get a reputation for being the most prepared actor on your first day of work.
Let's get to work!
The Biz
You can have all the talent in the world, but in order to work, people need to know where to find you.
Accountability Assistant
$75/hr
Having trouble keeping up with your goals? We set up accountability meetings and make sure you are knocking things off your list in between sessions.
Reel Editing
Base rate $250
You have the footage but choosing and editing your own footage feels like an impossible task.
Let's talk about your dream reel and develop a quote for you
Footage Aquisition
$45
Having trouble acquiring High Quality footage from a project that's already been released?
Hire me to seek out and acquire that footage for your portfolio.
$45 per project
Marketing/Biz /Career Assessment
$250 per session
This is a 2 hour private virtual or in person session.
I take the pulse of your career and help you look at your materials from different perspective.
We cultivate a story that is honest and true to you and easy for others to understand and work with.
I give you an action list of things to accomplish in order to achieve the goals you've set out for yourself.
All rates are subject to change based on client needs
Group Classes
I teach 2 different In Person On Camera Classes
The 6 Week On Camera Curriculum Advanced Course
$375 to Enroll
What: This is a six-week curriculum focused on tackling what I think are the most important parts of acting on camera in TV/Film. Following this six-week program, you will be eligible to apply for an ongoing Monthly On-Camera Practice that I lead for former students who I feel are a good fit, professional, skillful, and competitive.
Week 1: Self-Tape Review - We live in a self-tape world and it’s here to stay. Let’s check out what you’ve been doing, break down ways to improve your workflow, keep your relationships healthy with readers, and come up with fun ways to stay creative and make bold decisions.
Week 2: Text, Voice and Physical Freedom while working in On-Camera - If you think that just being “quieter” and mumbling is the key to good On-Camera work, or have been told “You’re too Theatrical” - I’m here to show you a whole new world. This class will focus on how to keep your instrument alive and pliable so you can be expressive, subtle, loud, quiet, and use your voice to help build a world without dialogue without being “too much” or too “Theatrical”. This used to be strictly a Voice week however my belief is that voice is deeply connected to physicality and that being on camera is not a regression of physical expression but a focusing of it. That text is incredibly important and our ability to use that text to discover clues about the scene, the character, the relationship and the truth or punchline is paramount to use working in this industry.
Week 3: Real World Adjustments - early on -I got really good at auditioning… which led me to being on set more. Which was great except, i didnMt really know what i was doing or how to prepare for the actual day. I wasn’t meeting my own expectations of how to bring the same level of mastery to working - So, I adjusted how I prepared and it made me feel so much more comfortable stepping foot on set. Let me help you bridge that gap by providing you and your classmates with all of the little surprises that happen on the day (including changes to script, bad notes, the adrenaline of waiting longer than you thought, complicated blocking, rushes, prop work, wardrobe, and so on).
Week 4: TV - Regardless of Genre - TV is a machine. Each genre demands something different. You can be a great actor, but if you’re applying guest star nuance to a co-star role, you’ll be left in the dust. Because this machine moves quickly, there are some technical adjustments that we can make to improve our work in the TV world. We’ll focus on how TV works and how to fit into that system.
Week 5:Film/Indies - Film is maybe the greatest medium for actors to live in because of what allowances we’re given. This week, we’ll go over how a film is made, funded, sold and why that’s important to actors. Then we’ll learn about the structure of a film and how we can make choices that fit in with the world. In Chicago, we have an incredible opportunity to apply our blackbox acting skills and develop our skills through leading and supporting roles in Indies that we might not get if we were in a larger market.
Week 6: High Stakes Week - The number one area that I see room for improvement in Chicago Actors is the refusal to commit to raising the stakes.This week is all about scenes that require you to sell it. Whether that’s getting your leg snapped in two, being possessed by a demon, or slowly bleeding out while someone is torturing you - filmmakers want to know if you can handle these moments. So let’s practice how to work at a true 10 - not a marked one.
Students will bring in specific material based on the week's focus. We will be looking at 2-4 page scenes for larger co-stars, guest stars, series regular, large supporting and leading roles only. This is not a 1 page co-star or 2 line supporting class. We’ll talk about those roles briefly, but I’m interested in getting into the acting work and, to me, that’s not it.
Ongoing On Camera Practice - Must have taken the 6 week to practice with us.
$175 for Current Students
$200 to hop back in
What: This is a 4 hour Acting On Camera Practice. In ongoing students bring in material they want to work on. Each week we’ll have students working on material from different sources.
Additionally - On the job, the camera isn’t always on a tripod like auditions. This makes it rather challenging when you have been auditioning for a long time and then you have an opportunity to work. We will work with Walk and Talks, Lighting choices, extreme close ups, ultra wides, over the shoulder, shots of you doing activities/business as the character. We can shoot your scene in multiple setups and you can edit it together. Bring ideas. We will have discussions on current films, TAPE AUDITIONS, bring in filmmakers, directors/producers/writers to observe, work with working filmmakers.
What I’ve noticed over the past two years is that growth as an actor is similar to growth as an athlete or musician. It is not linear, it’s incredibly rewarding, sometimes very frustrating, and just when you think you’ve regressed and are ready to quit - you make a breakthrough to the level that you’ve been working for years to get to - wash rinse repeat.
I’m invested in being a part of that journey with you and providing you with honest, supportive feedback. Over the past 17 years I’ve taken countless classes, worked across all mediums of entertainment, and practiced relentlessly on my own and I want to make myself available to other artists at a rate that keeps me making minimum wage and you not breaking the bank.
Learning and practicing requires focus, time, and feedback. It requires a period of frustration and a need for trust and a shared history with your teacher. Unfortunately, time/space/instruction costs money… and sometimes a lot of it. It leads to workshop culture and popping in for a month and then disappearing into self-tape land for the other 11 months, hoping you’ve … changed for the better. (Yes, that was a Wicked reference)
So, I started paying attention to the way that my peers were working, and to the way that TV/film was shot and edited. And I read books. And I took more classes. And I started downloading movies/TV shows and breaking down scenes on my computer to get to know why I thought moments worked or didn’t work. And the more film festivals I showed up at, the more I saw when things didn’t work and developed opinions on why and when things did work and developed techniques to explore the stuff that did work.
I created this class to share what I’ve found, to continue to learn from my colleagues, and to push myself to be able to articulate what I instinctively do well, and what technical adjustments I’ve made in order to improve.
We start each class reviewing footage from TV and Film, and examine them from a technical perspective to find evidence from working professionals to support breaking the rules that are holding you back or understand why a rule exists, and embracing it to become fully alive artists when we’re working on camera.
I'm available for hire and have developed specialized workshops and courses such as
- Monologue Prep
- Scene Study
- Auditioning for TV/Film
- Personal Artistic Development
- Career Readiness
- What I wish I learned In College
Reach out for a custom quote!
A Lifetime of Acting
Born to hardworking Irish parents in New York, NY, raised in Chicago, and now working around the world. I began my acting career before I could remember, portraying "Adam Hughes" as a baby in the iconic soap opera "As the World Turns". From there I went on Life Hiatus until I was 18. Since then I've compiled an incredible array of credits.
TV - Guest Star, Recurring and Co-Star Credits on TV shows like NBC's Chicago PD, Fox's "Empire" and "APB", and Showtimes "The Chi".
Film - Consistently working in front of the camera from Studio and Independent films around the world like Je-Kyu Kang's South Korean Drama "Road to Boston", Rupert Wyatt's SciFi thriller "Captive State", and Vinco Creative's Indie Thriller "NightShift".
Commercially - Check out my commercial reel above and my full commercial resume on my actors access page below.
I've studied at Illinois State University, Michael Howard Studios, UCB NYC, Chicago Shakespeare, Vagabond School of the Arts, Accomplished On Camera, Second City Chicago, The Annoyance, & Lesley Kahn and Co.
Recent Projects
For the last year, I have been teaching Scene Study Classes at Accomplished On Camera, Coaching actors for auditions and bookings while continuing to work as an Actor in Commercials, TV, and Film.
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