Tori Clay

Your list does not have a category for me. The closest it comes is acting lessons. I do not teach acting. I am an acting coach, which is very different. When I was active doing it it was because other actors would come to me and ask for help. So, what I would do is basically illustrate that there was more than one path to get to where they needed to be. I would bring things out of them that they did not know were there. Sometimes it was an intense experience. I was a lauded actor that had no intention of getting into coaching, but too many people kept asking for my help and offering to pay me. After helping a bunch of people for free I decided I would start getting paid and I continued to do so until my life had a major upheaval and since then I have not resumed. But last summer I was in a situation where there were actors practicing a scene and not doing too well so I stepped in to both direct the scene and coach the actors. The results were a huge improvement and the actor that I worked with the most went on to use my help to get his very first speaking role in a film. As an actor I worked with major stars and I mean that literally not just background. I came close to making it big more than once. I am one of the few actors that can say that while doing a play they made the audience literally forget that they were watching an actor in character. I was breaking down in a sad monologue so they yelled out that they loved me to cheer me up. That is called shattering the fourth wall.