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ACTORS GYM, LLC is a registered trademark©
“There are as many acting
methods out there as there are actors. Each
one of us – each one of my students – is unique.
The thrill for me, as a teacher, is to tap into that uniqueness and watch
my actors grow. How is that done?
By first accepting that there is no one technique that fits all.
Stanislavski, Meisner, and others have their place – which is why I’ve
spent the past 35 years studying their work.
That said, my immediate goal when I coach people is to discover exactly
how each one learns, and then to hone in on what is specifically needed.
Individual students have invested more time than others in certain areas:
auditioning skills, cold reading, dropping regional accents, projecting,
improving movement – the list is endless.
The common thread through all of it is that I believe you can only build
on a solid foundation. Which means that an actor’s fundamental tool – his
confidence in himself and his work – is reinforced even as he works on what
needs to be developed. It is work.
But, as I’ve said, it’s thrilling.
I’m grateful for the opportunity to be a part of the process.” Reno Venturi Reno
Venturi is a Producer/Director,
Casting Director, CEO Actors Gym, VP of Tripeg Film Studios & Acting Coach
who has many professional credits to his name. Reno has directed many
award-winning shows such as Gypsy, Cabaret, Nuts and Brighton Beach Memoirs, to
name a few. His performances include productions of Man of La Mancha, The
Fantasticks,"1940's Radio Show" and The Diaries of Adam and Eve shown
in venues throughout California, Missouri, Boston, Maine, FL, CT and New York.
In addition to Reno's stage credits, he has many acting & directing credits
including national & regional commercials, TV, films and Indie project films
including the Sundance Film Festival. He has taught acting for Yale University,
Sacred Heart University, UCLA, New England Academy of Theatre and High Desert
Talent Agency as well as for schools and colleges in California, Connecticut
& New York. Reno has directed & Produced the "Short & NEAT
One-Act Play Festival”, which is a staple of the International Festival of
Arts & Ideas, since 2000. Previously the Artistic Managing Director of the
New England Academy of Theatre, he now owns and operates his own acting,
producing & Talent company, the Actors
Gym.
Main
Studio located
at brand new space in Hamden with a small theatre for live performance, offices,
rehearsal room, full bathrooms with showers and kitchen with an office in Manhattan and Florida. For the past
12 years Reno has been working as a casting director for several productions
including 30 Rock, NutriSystems, Lexus, AT&T, Delta, Mitsubishi, to name a
few, and several soaps and has been responsible for finding acting jobs for
aspiring new talent On and off Broadway. He currently has a very
successful show he directed on tour, The
NY Times Praised Reno for the work he has been doing with actors calling him
“a force to be reconed with” and citing “whatever he is doing at the
Actors Gym he is doing right!”
Reno
Venturi is an actor's advocate who main objective is to prepare actors to have
the advantage. In recent years he has been casting for regional and
national projects in Live Stage, Film and Commercials. Most recently, for such
projects as NutriSystem, Prodigy, Kids R Us, Yale Medical Center Kids and the
Smilow Cancer Institute to name a few.
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