Online Acting & Auditioning Coaching
Work with Flori online.
Book one session, take a custom-designed, multi-session class (or choose from one of the classes below) — all on Zoom.
Flori can help you with a competitive audition or help you to improve a specific acting or speaking skill, one-on-one or in a small group.
Set up a time to discuss your training and career goals so you can begin working online together at your own pace via Zoom.
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The College Audition
Preparation for the college audition includes the selection of monologues and a presentation that demonstrates a strong candidate. Actors are given techniques and strategies to utilize in the preparation. Learn how to enter and leave the audition room and how to navigate “eye contact” choices as well as when to use, a chair.
Individual coaching or group classes are available.
“Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you have one.”
Stella Adler
3 sessions for $125
Give yourself the opportunity to personalize, break down and prepare different monologues. Emphasis is placed on strategies for rehearsal, and techniques for the “non acting” moments of the audition are given. Some direction of monologues will be provided. Students are encouraged to prepare and present monologues for adjudication at this time.
Individual coaching or group classes are available.
“I love acting. It is so much more real than life.”
Oscar Wilde
Monologues for Auditions
This is My Song
Approach your song as the story it is meant to be. Explore the narrative of your song, whether it is for an audition, performance or your own enrichment. Discover your truth in the lyrics and connect with each note. Bring two copies of the song and your music.
Individual coaching or group classes are available.
"So wait, an actor is saying his lines and out of nowhere he just starts singing?”
SOMETHING’S ROTTEN
Acting Techniques
Discover being in the moment and truth in acting. Class members have the opportunity to participate in a variety of activities created by masters of teaching acting: Constantine Stanislavsky, Sanford Meiser and Uta Hagen. Have fun, gain confidence and learn about yourself while exploring your performance skills while examining the text of a contemporary play.
“If I wasn’t an actor, I’d be a secret agent.”
Thornton Wilder
Scene Study One
Develop your understanding of the human condition while learning more about the craft of acting. Explore the circumstance of the text to find the present moment and truthful living of the character. Utilize script analysis techniques to bring an authentic voice to your character. Scenes are assigned by the first class.
Five 2 hour classes:
Individual Coaching or Custom Classes for your group are available.
“You don’t bring life to the stage. You bring the truth of life to the stage.”
Stephen McKinnley Henderson
Interview Techniques
Prepare and brush up the skills needed for the interview process. Whether social distancing, or on Zoom, planning is necessary in order to present yourself as a viable candidate for any job. Work on an organized and conversational approach to your interview. Role play interview questions and project your best self on Zoom!
“I am not throwing away my shot!”
Lin-Manuel Miranda
Public Speaking
Learn skills to impact and persuade your audience. Whether a work presentation or a keynote address, confidence and poise are required for successful communication. Learn to cultivate elocution skills to clarify meaning and effect change.
“Speak the speech, I pray you,
as I pronounce it to you,
trippingly on the tongue.”
Shakespeare
Anton Chekhov Scene Study Class & The Salon
Explore the significance of Chekhov’s work in modern drama. Work on scenes chosen and assigned from THE CHERRY ORCHARD and THE THREE SISTERS. Class meets on Zoom and will perform in a Salon later in the season.
“Just as the beast of prey, which devours everything ... is necessary … so are you necessary.”
THE CHERRY ORCHARD
Tennessee Williams Scene Study Class
Investigate the angst, turmoil and heat of Williams characters in scenes from THE GLASS MENAGERIE, SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER, THE ROSE TATTOO. Scenes will be assigned during the first class on Zoom.
“I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.”
A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE
TWELFTH NIGHT
Acting Seminar
An Acting Seminar consisting of scenes and monologues from Shakespeare’s TWELFTH NIGHT (or What You Will). Embrace the wit and insight of The Bard! Over the course of four Zoom gatherings, we discuss the comedy and work on our scenes. This is followed by the Salon, which consists of an informal discussion and presentation in public later in the season.
”Be not afraid of greatness.”
TWELFTH NIGHT
“Brush Up Your Shakespeare”
An Acting Seminar for all. Act! Discuss! Laugh! Discover scenes and monologues in a convivial setting! Expand your insight into the human condition while exploring the humor and social commentary provided by The Bard! Enjoy the thrill, the gift of informal performance on Zoom!
For Beginners as well as the Experienced.
Five 2-hour classes.
“A little more than kin and less than kind.”
HAMLET
Shakespeare’s Scene Study (Advanced)
Explore Elizabethan family dynamics through the sisters, brothers and parents in Shakespeare’s plays. Scenes will be assigned during the first class.