Weist-Barron has been training, guiding and show-casing actors specifically for work in Film and Television since 1956. Our goal is to make sure actors feel confident of their on-camera performance and understand how to direct their career path. Our courses are informative, rewarding and affordable (no membership fees) and are always free to visit. A short film about the school can be accessed on our very comprehensive website www.weistbarron.com

• VIRGINIA BARTHOLOMEW, ginspiration@gmail.com - Voice and Speech for the Actor. “The human voice is the organ of the soul.” –Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

A great voice is one of the best tools an actor can have.  The right voice can be mesmerizing; the wrong one can grate.  In fact, from the moment you open your mouth, a casting director has already made a judgment about you as a performer.  Put your best foot forward with a clear, powerful, resonant stage voice.  Virginia will teach you to:

• Speak clearly, flawlessly and with confidence
• Use your instrument to produce dialects and interesting character voices
• Maintain passion & intensity without pain
• Prevent & repair vocal damage
• Keep your voice… even with a cold or flu

• JODIE BENTLEY & KEVIN URBAN, the co-owners of The Savvy Actor have almost 20 years combined experience in the acting business. They are both signed (and working!) with legit and commercial agents, and book consistently in all areas. Kevin has a degree in PR/ Marketing Communications, and prior to The Savvy Actor, Jodie built her own NYC based Marketing and Sales company from the ground up. This is the knowledge and know how they bring to The Savvy Actor. NOTE: Kevin is coming on his own; Jodie won't be with us 10/15.

TheSavvyActor.com is the one stop website for the business of acting developed by working actors. It's time to work smarter, not harder, and build your acting business with marketing, branding and business principles that guarantee success!

• BLUFACE PHOTOGRAPHY - is one of the most creative headshot photo studios in New York City to come along in years. BLUFACE is considered a great asset to both actors and models. Blu Toth the owner and creative force behind BLUFACE has worked on both sides of the camera. As a former top model in Europe and the US, Blu was represented by the ELITE International modeling agency. Blu has a most unique perspective to offer her clients, having worked on television, film, runway and print Blu has a very keen idea of what her clients need to book the job. To be able to find one person who is an expert in makeup, camera angles, and recognized as one of the best photoshop artists in town sounds to be an almost impossible, yet that is how Blu is best described. Not only can she create the perfect look for you making the most of your asset. She does the shoot and then enhances you with her magical photoshop eye in a very natural way.

" The client comes first "says Blu, "My love for acting is equal to my love for actor, I admire anyone who takes on such a difficult and challenging profession ". Actors and models both, love to come to BLUFACE and finally breathe and relax in front of the camera instead of going through the shoot and wondering how it will turn out. Blu understands the feeling of being on a very important photoshoot and immediately puts you at ease, you know what you are going to get from her right at the beginning, you will look like you just came back from the best vacation ever !!

NY Theatre: Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre: Killers And Other Family, That Pretty Pretty, Geometry Of Fire & Lady.  LAByrinth Theatre Co: Sweet Storm (co-pro with Alchemy Theatre), Philip Roth In Khartoum, & Unconditional.   Other NY Theatre includes:FUBAR(59E59), Into The Hazard (WalkerSpace), Chair (TFANA), What To Do When You Hate All Your Friends, Night Over Taos (dir.Estelle Parsons), and The Bereaved(Partial Comfort Productions).  Upcoming productions include Wilder Works (Keen Company) and Murikami’s The Windup Bird Chronicle (Ohio Theatre).  Judy has cast the last 5+ years of shows for the American Repertory Theatre, several productions for the Humana Festival at Actors Theatre of Louisville, and has worked with numerous regional theaters around the country.   She has also cast several musicals regionally, and in the NYMF. www.judybowmancasting.com

Ms Brackett has been featured in The New York Times, The Today Show, CNN's Glen Beck, Child Magazine, Matters Magazine and the internet radio show, The Coaching Hour with Lester Thomas Shane. Penelope received the highest designation of Master Certified Coach from the International Federation of Coaching. She is the coauthor of "Seven Keys for Unlocking Success without Struggle" with Lester Thomas Shane. Her online newsletter, "The Fertile Ground" features articles and exercises to grow your life and career. Articles include: "Ask and You Shall Receive", "Emergency Distractions" and "My Gift's better than your Gift".

"I work with actors to encourage and expand their imagination; to find more than one choice in making a piece work; to get out of the safety zone and make choices that are bold, fun and interesting. Trusting imagination is not enough, though; verbal skills are also needed to make language come alive, to give it life, vitality, power, and music. So this is how I work – find the truth in a scene, using imagination and the words the writer gives us to tell a story, and adding movement that ‘suits the action to the word’ – this is what I support an actor in doing."

Neckyfarow is an actor-dancer-singer who has worked in virtually every aspect of the performing arts holding positions as a performer, choreographer, in arts administration and in technical theater for dance. While earning her BA (High Honors) in dance from Smith College, she dabbled in coursework in the computer science department and held interships in public relations and development at the non-profit arts organizations of Arts & Science Council (Charlotte, NC) and Dance Umbrella (Boston, MA).