EDUCATION : Acting Coaches / Stage

Denis Bateman (206) 523-6064
(Equity, SAG, AFTRA)
Denis Bateman studied with Uta Hagen for three years at the HB studio in NY City and has been a professional actor for 32 years. In addition he took Master classes with Mike Nichols and Horton Foote. Private audition coaching. (see also Commercial Training)

Lani Brockman (425) 827-3123
(Equity, SAG)
Private coaching, Brockman trained at Circle in The Square Theatre in NYC, and is currently artistic director at Studio East. She is an excellent resource for audition pieces and excels in getting that “old standard” rejuvenated and ready for that last-minute time slot.

Ted D’Arms (206) 282-2254
(Equity, SAG, AFTRA)
Audition coaching, by interview only. An actor/director, D’Arms has been part of the regional theatre scene for 35 years. He studied with Hagen and Katsellas in New York, and taught at Harvard, the University of Washington and Cornish College of the Arts.

Toni Douglas (206) 244-7558
(Equity, AFTRA)
Private audition coaching, Douglass is an actor/director/playwright whose regional acting credits include Intiman, ACT, Empty Space, Seattle Group Theatre, Tacoma Actor’s Guild and Southcoast Repertory Co. A playwright with 26 published plays to her credit, Douglass also writes custom audition pieces, which she will coach to performance level..

Rita Giomi (206) 784-6065
Audition workshops and private coaching. Giomi is a recognized Seattle directors with an MFA in directing and 25 years of professional experience at many of the Northwest’s leading Equity houses. Giomi’s audition workshops are well attended.
E-mail: rgiomi@comcast.net

Ann Graham (206) 324-6328
Ann Graham, director of the Northwest Actors Studio, has been teaching drama for 30 years. She is certified to teach secondary school in the state of Washington and has an MA in drama from the UW. She works with adults and young actors on monologues, scene work and audition techniques.

Aaron Levin (206) 526-2466
( Equity, SAG, AFTRA)
Aaron Levin has taught acting for over 25 years. Ttrained by Mira Rostova , Aaron studied in London under directors of the National Theatre of Great Britain and the Royal Shakespeare Company, and is a graduate of the North Carolina School of the Arts ( BFA in Acting and the University of Washington ( MFA in Directing. ) In addition, he was Executive Director of Seattle’s Bridges International Repertory Theatre, for which he directed A Map of the World by Sir David Hare, The Primary English Class by Israel Horovitz, and Death and the Maiden by Ariel Dorfman. He has directed all across the country, including the New York premieres of The Workroom by Jean-Clause Grumberg ( NY Drama Desk Awared nomination) and was the first American theatre director to work with the famous Sovremennik Theatre of Moscow. As well as private coaching, Aaron teaches a small Actor’s Monologue and Scene Study Class, Monday 6 pm to 9 pm at the TPS studio at Seattle Center. Aaron has over 500 monologues for actors
E-mail ahlevin6@aol.com

Catherine Madden (206) 368-8544
Acting and Alexander Technique; workshops and private coaching that combine stagework and movement theory. Madden is former Artistic Director of a Midwestern theatre company who’s taught Alexander Technique for 124 years, and is currently the Alexander instructor in the UW’s Professional Acting Program. Her specialty is the practical application of the Alexander Technique to all performing arts-theatre, music, and dance. She is the Director of the Alexander Technique Teaching and Performance Studio in Seattle, and Associate Director of ATA in Japan and UKATA in England.
E-mail: cathmadden@aol.com

Jessica Marlowe-Goldstein (206) 328-3206 or (206) 419-9469
(Equity)
One of the most versatile and impressive teachers here in Seattle, Jessica has an MFA from UW’s Professional Acting Training Program and studied the Meisner approach to acting at the Bill Esper Studio in NYC. At the college level Jessica has taught for many years at Freehold, Whitman, UW, U of Alaska, NW Actor’s Studio, Cornish as well as at several Youth Theatre Programs and in High Schools. In addition, Jessica has taught at a Harlem high school in New York City and at Seattle’s Hebrew Academy. Jessica offers Private and group coaching for auditions with over 200 personally tailored monologue searches for auditioning actors and scene study-script analysis.
E-Mail: bespecific@msn.com

Maureen Mershon
(Equity)
Maureen Mershon has been working professionally since she was 12 and has been a member of Equity since she was 19. She studied at The American Musical and Dramatic Academy in NYC, where she worked in plays cabaret, musicals, independent films and commercials. Ms. Mershon has taught all levels, from college ( UCLA) to high school and grammar school. In addition, Ms. Mershon has produced, directed and choreographed many plays, musicals and wrote a play, produced at NWAS in 1996. Ms. Mershon directed Murder in the Cathedral for the Fringe Festival, a production that was deemed, “best vocal performance in Seattle” by one critic.
E-mail: mmershon@blanchet.k12.wa.us

Kevin McQuade (206) 965-9068
Holding an MFA in Directing, Kevin McQuade has been teaching theatre for more than 25 years at all levels, from High Schools and colleges to professional actors such as Lara Flynn Boyle and Laura Lee Bell (at Chicago Academy of Performing Arts) He has directed in Chicago at Alphabet Soup Children’s Theatre and other regional theatres. With over 75 acting production credits and 50 directing credits, McQuade works on acting and audition technique as well as trouble-shooting with directors.

Terry Edward Moore (206) 313-0257
(Equity, SAG, AFTRA)
Private Audition coach; helps actors find clear and specific actions, clarify scansion, etc. Moore has an MFA in Acting/Directing from Brandeis University. He has acted, directed and taught around the country, including New York, Minneapolis and Phoenix, and has performed with most of the Equity Theatres in the Northwest.
Website: terryedwardmoore. com

Laurel Paxton
Laurel who holds a BFA from Cornish has been acting and directing for 25 years as wekk as teaching for the last 10. As a trainee Alexander Teacher, her coaching has a movement basis. ( see ActinClass studio)

Robin Lynn Smith (206) 323-7499ext. 15
(Equity, SAG, AFTRA)
A professional director and teacher, Smith is a founding member of Freehold and is on the faculty of Cornish. Since moving to Seattle from New York 20 years ago, she has directed at many of Seattle’s major theatres. She has been a guest director/faculty member at New York University and the UW. She holds an MFA in Directing from NYU and a BFA in Acting from Boston University.

Arne Zaslove
Arne Zaslove is renowned all over the world as a director and teacher. In Seattle, he co-founded the Professional Actor’s Training Program, at the UW in 1976, was co-artistic director of the Seattle Rep and founded and was artistic director of the Bathhouse Theatre. He studied acting at Carnegie Mellon University, movement at Ecole Jacques Lecoq, and served an apprenticeship with Commedia dell’Arte master Carlo Mazzone-Clementi. He has directed at Teatro Zinzani in Seattle, Pomp,Duck and Circumstance in Berlin, as well as cabaret performance shows interweaving clown routines with high-level circus skills. In addition, Arne has directed over 30 highly innovative Shakespeare productions. ( see Physical Training, Shakespeare and his website)
E-mail: ArneZaslove@earthlink.net
www.zaslove.com