Acting Teacher & Coach | Theatre Scholar
M.A. Theatre History and Criticism, UCLA
Acting Teacher & Coach | Theatre Scholar
M.A. Theatre History and Criticism, UCLA
Acting Coaching
Immersion Retreats in Italy
Acting Coaching
I offer private, one-on-one coaching for actors and creatives seeking a deeper relationship to their work. Sessions are tailored to the individual and designed to support both craft and confidence.
Writing Coaching
Immersion Retreats in Italy
Acting Coaching
Private writing coaching is offered for writers and creatives working on memoirs, personal essays, screenplays, long-form projects, or hybrid forms. This one-on-one work supports writers and creatives in developing voice, structure, and momentum while working with memory, meaning, and craft.
Immersion Retreats in Italy
Immersion Retreats in Italy
Immersion Retreats in Italy
In Verona, I offer private one-on-one immersion retreats for writers, actors, creatives, and seekers looking for depth, clarity, and sustained engagement in their work.
Caren Adorni
Caren Adorni is an international acting teacher and coach whose work bridges professional actor training, theatre scholarship and more than twenty-five years of teaching experience in the US and Europe.
She holds an M.A. in Theatre History and Criticism from UCLA, where her research focused on Eleonora Duse and modern European performance history. Caren trained at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute in Los Angeles with David Strasberg and Hedy Sontag. She has taught acting at Santa Barbara City College and at professional acting studios in Rome.
Most recently, she served as a Visiting Professor in Verona, teaching Shakespeare in Italy through an experiential approach integrating text, performance, history, and place.
Teaching Philosophy
Actors are crafted storytellers.
Actors use their craft to express the complexities of what we call the human condition.
However, an actor needs much more than craft. An actor needs empathy.
I have found that it can be difficult to teach empathy.
But I have also found that through encouraging actors to look at others’ lives, their triumphs and their struggles, empathy can be cultivated.
Through this new way of seeing, I’ve witnessed actors make that courageous leap from egocentrism to altruism. It is an embodied experiential leap, not a theoretical leap.
When this happens, an actor’s work is forever changed.
