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 Voice
Lessons
Acting Classes
Audition Coaching
Gloria opened her first performing arts studio in Florida, where
she personally taught private voice, drama, and showchoir, and
provided instructors in piano, guitar, trombone, trumpet,
saxophone, and other instruments. Many of her students have gone
on to professional performing careers on-stage and on-camera.
Most recently,
Gloria moved to California to start the Children and Young
Adults department of Bicoastal Talent Agency in
Burbank, CA. She spent two successful years as an agent
there, with many of her clients appearing in national television
commercials, television shows, and feature films, including the
recent Disney film, Bridge to Terabithia.
Gloria has performed onstage in numerous Equity productions, and
has played such roles as
Mama Rose in the musical Gypsy to much acclaim, as well as
many years experience on-camera in various commercials and
films. She has also worked in theatre as a producer and
director. Gloria was the co-creator of YOUNG STARS THEATRE, a
community theatre producing a regular schedule of shows and
using only actors 18 and younger, a theatre concept that is
being revived here in California. Click
here for details.
Gloria now brings
her years of performing and teaching experience back to her own
studio, continuing her tradition of personal, hands-on
instruction for the performer in a supportive, positive
environment.
Jack
J. Bennett
Actor Reels
Audition Coaching
Jack is
professional actor and director of nearly 15 years, and an
accomplished videographer and video editor.
Jack has been
acting since the age of four, and has appeared on the live stage
literally thousands of times in the years since. He has
won numerous awards including a Best Actor/Season award for the
role of Starbuck in
The Rainmaker.
Jack is a
veteran of nearly 100 television commercials, as well as
numerous film and television appearances including House, The Bold
and the Beautiful and Medium. He also produces
his own projects, including a short film currently in
post-production that he wrote, produced, directed, and acted in
titled No Introduction Necessary, a fictional story about
billionaire Howard Hughes.
As a video editor who is also an
actor, and having watched scores of actor reels both as a
producer and with his wife while she was an agent, he has a
solid perspective into how to make an actor shine on a reel,
while avoiding distracting editing techniques.
Jack is
currently working on a novel and screenplay of the novel.
Jack is available for
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 Guitar
Piano
Composition
Theory
Improvisation
BEGINNING
GUITAR CLASS!
George Demme is an accomplished performer, composer, and
instructor. He is originally a native of Ohio, where he
studied piano with Loy Kohler (Capitol University) and George
Haddad (Ohio State). He received his Bachelor of Arts in
Music Theory and Composition from the University of New Orleans,
and received his Master of Arts in 1993 from Jacksonville
University.
George's career has traveled many
paths (literally and figuratively), including playing for
touring Broadway shows, performing up and down Bourbon Street in
New Orleans famed French Quarter, and appearing on radio,
television and film. George also lived in Baton Rouge for
several years where he used to hire Randy Jackson - yes,
that Randy Jackson - and his brother Herman to play gigs. He continues to perform live on a
regular basis, with his first love being jazz piano.
George has taught on all levels, from beginning students all the
way to the university level. George is proficient in
several instruments, and is a prolific composer.
George's years of performing
and teaching experience are now available in Southern
California, where he teaches piano, guitar, theory,
improvisation and composition.
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