Boucai- QPOC Positive Body Based Actor Training

While completing my PhD in Performance Studies at UC Berkeley, I had the pleasure to teach the Introduction to Acting Course on four separate occasions while also directing MainStage productions.   I have been a Diversity Fellow at the Rhode Island School of Design where I taught classes on performance training for artists and designers.   I also spent three years running and directing an alt-performance venue, curating and promoting everything from classic plays to improv shows to devised new work. I also completed conservatory training in France in mime, clown and devising and hence pair a deep knowledge of method with a more body-based, outside-in approach to actor training.

I do not have a set price although I tend to work on a sliding scale from $50-$100/hr depending on the student and the type of work required.   Please inquire for more details.

As far back as I can remember, I have always been teaching and learning simultaneously.   I tutored in high school, taught in summer camp during college, and after college taught students with differing abilities and ages.   I completed a PhD mostly for my love of teaching and still receive deep joy from watching a student understand the fundamentals of performance. 

I have worked with children, teens, college students, adults new to the field and continuing professionals.  I have taught acting for auditions, acting as drama-therapy and have work with a variety of people with special needs. As a Queer, non-binary Arab Jew, I am also an expert in working with people from diverse backgrounds understand how they can harness their inner performer, even if they have never seen anyone like them in the limelight.