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Caren Adorni has been a professional acting coach in Los Angeles for over 20 years. She founded her own acting studio at The Venice Art Block in Venice, California. Caren has trained actors for roles in Film and Television and is a member of the Screen Actors Guild. Her inspired teaching is grounded in The Stanislavski System and her classes have been accredited at New York University..
As an acting coach, theatre director and educator working at the intersection of performance and cultural storytelling, Caren has taught and directed actors across the US and Europe - from college classrooms to devised theatre ensemble work to international festivals.
Currently, Caren splits her time between Italy and the US.
NOTEWORTHY
- Master’s degree in Theater UCLA
- Alumna of The Lee Strasberg Theater Institute, Los Angeles
- Instructor at Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles
- Trained in the work of Etienne Decroux (mime) and The Alexander Technique (body alignment)
- Produced and directed a series of showcases for her students in Los Angeles including the work of Tennessee Williams, John Patrick Shanley, Sam Shepherd, David Mamet and many other contemporary playwrights.
- Other directing credits include an adaptation of Anne Sexton’s Transformations for The Electric Theater Company in Venice, California.
- Invited to teach at: Nosen Fjell, Oslo, Norway; The 6th International Festival of Making Theater, Athens, Greece; Studio4Cine, Rome, Italy; Laboratorio di Arte Sceniche, Rome, Italy.
- BA Philosophy with Honors UCSB
- Participated in The Pan Theatre of Paris Aphrodite Festival in Avignon, France
- Yoga Alliance RYT 200- hour training
- Level 2 Reiki Practitioner
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.
