Advice/Opinions on Specific Coaches

CaMom13
Fri, 16 Nov 2018 16:14:37 +0000

@cgn626 - You have an initial consult with Ellen and Leo where they get a sense for who the actor is and where they want to go and from there you get a basic plan from MTCA and your various coach assignments. One of your coaches is designated as the main coordinator so they are your go-to for that but you also have Leo and Ellen, who have been through this with hundreds of students, available for consultation. They also have webinars about the process as you go along that are very informative and keep everyone on the right track. Plus they help you at the mock auditions to get to where you should be for the real ones. So there’s no shortage of information / communication / expertise at your disposal as an MTCA client. How much of that guidance and expertise you utilize depends on you and what you think your actor needs. We started coaching too late (imo) and my D had a lot of criteria that narrowed down our schools list so it was not at all “well-balanced”. We didn’t utilize a lot of their expertise deliberately … we did it our waaaayyy… and they were okay with that, too. If we’d wanted more advice and guidance, it would have been there.