Through our Education Division PATStudio offers career and creativity coaching for creative types such as Actors, Directors, Models, Playwrights, Directors and everyday people.
Classes and workshops are designed specifically to help people maximize their creativie potential through strengthening the necessary skills to lead a successful life and career: Mindset, Knowledge, and Taking Action.
Our team of Master Instructors and invited facilitators for special workshops have the professional experience to help guide you to your next level!
Professor Denise J. Hart is a tenured Professor of theatre at Howard University and an accomplished and award winning actress, director and playwright. She is a graduate of Howard University (BFA in Acting) and holds an MFA in Playwriting from Sarah Lawrence College. Ms. Hart is the founder and Executive Director of The Performing Arts Training Studio, author of 15 children's plays with music and her most recent Directing credits include: Day of Absence (selected to compete in the 2008 Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival regional conference). and Joe Turner’s Come and Gone. Her most recent playwriting achievement includes the production - This Joy, (a 2007 finalist in both The Lark and the Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights competition.) Hart is also a Creativity Coach, having trained with world reknowed Creativity coach Dr. Eric Maisel. Known as The Motivated Mindset Coach, she is a featured coach on the worldsalon.com and throughout her career has facilitated over 2000 hours of training. Hart is a member of the Screen Actors Guild, The Dramatist Guild, The Playwrights Forum, and Theatre for Young Audiences. Hart proudly serves on the boards of The DC Black Theatre Festival, Takoma Theatre Conservancy and DC Art Studios. Visit her inspirational blog at www.motivationmama.com 
Wendy Muhammad - Wendy Muhammad is passionate about business and helping others take their professional lives to the next level. She is an entrepreneur, business coach and Owner/Partner of 4 successful companies including an Investment Banking Firm, Surgery Center, Business Consulting Firm and Leadership Training Firm. She enjoys helping emerging leaders and entrepreneurs discover their authenticity. Under her coaching trade name, The Authenticity Coach™, Wendy Muhammad has helped thousands of emerging leaders and entrepreneurs, from all walks of life, around the world learn to use their thoughts and emotions to manifest exactly what they want. www.TheJohnEdwardGroup.comwww.TheAuthenticYouOnline.com
William Powell, an accomplished DC-area actor, is committed to helping fellow actors get stage and screen work. A long time Actors’ Center member, William has played an FBI agent and a banker on Investigation Discovery’s "Who the Bleep Did I Marry?" crime reenactment show; appeared in the training films "Auditioning Secrets" and "Sleep Apnia"; appeared in the indie films "Recession Proof" and "Conscious Imprisonment" and in commercials for the likes of Car Max, T. Rowe Price and GEICO; appeared in TV shows like HBO's "VEEP"; and appeared in stage plays like "Barefoot in the Park" and "Bye Bye Birdie" at Prince George’s Little Theatre and writes a theatre article for the examiner.comUpcoming Workshops
Mondays - 3/19, 3/26, 4/2, 4/9, 4/16
Networking Tricks for Actors
The Networking Tricks for Actors workshop will help you develop the kind of networking skills you can use to increase auditioning\casting oppo...rtunities and advance your career. In this hour long workshop you'll learn, from William Powell, actor, DC Actors Examiner columnist and Inside Acting podcast host:
~How to use networking techniques to increase audition opportunities
~Test your networking skills on the spot!
~Networking like a celebrity
~Harnessing the power of your social circle
~How to get and stay on agents' and directors' radarThe importance of being an actreprenuer i.e. a business-minded actor
~Using "social platforms" to propel your career
~The importance of creating and having a career plan
~Marketing techniques
Here's what a recent student had to say about Networking Tricks for Actors:
William,
I just want to thank you, and let you know that your networking class was very informative. I am already starting to think like a celebrity, working on business cards and trusting myself, you call it, Speed of Implementation. Hope to see you in more workshops. Thanks again
E. Jones
Instructor - William Powell
Tution - $25 per class
Dates - Class meets on Monday - 3/19, 3/26, 4/2, 4/9, 4/16 (each class has the same content)
To register select your class and pay via Paypal. See you in class!
(PATStudio reserves the right to substitute teachers as needed. There are no refunds.)
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