Guest Artist: Nathalie Toriel
ACTING CLASSES FOR TEENS
Fundamentals of On-Screen Acting for Teens
six-week session, 1.5 hours per class
Mondays from 5:30-7pm
March 31, April 7, 14, 28, May 5, 12
Price: $350+HST
This six-week course of collaborative learning sessions will prepare (or refresh) teens for confidence and creativity in professional film and television acting. The course will cover how to listen and be present while working, creating compelling characters, making choices that work for you, text/subtext/context comprehension, cold readings and text preparation for auditions and scene work. Teens who take this course should come away with a toolbox of knowledge and technique to provide the confidence to work in the professional acting world and one recorded scene of their work.
Teen Fundamentals Advanced
six-week session, 1.5 hours per class
Mondays from 5:30-7pm
May 26-June 30
Price: $350+HST
Teen Fundamentals Advanced will delve further into development of character learned in Teen Fundamentals. We will do scene studies weekly with a focus on the differences between comedic and dramatic styles, and introduce a single-character scene. One class will focus on audition techniques. We will focus on learning by doing, and there will be short scenes to prepare every other week. This class will again provide a minimum of two filmed scenes at the completion of the six weeks. This class is for teens who have completed the first Teen Fundamentals class.
Also check out Nathalie's
ANIMATION VOICE WORKSHOP
Nathalie Toriel is a TV Director,
an Actor, and an Emmy Nominated Voice Director.
Nathalie Toriel graduated from Dawson College, followed by York University’s Acting Conservatory, and has been acting professionally, bilingually, on stage, screen, and from many sound-booths, from the age of 7. For the last 25 years, Nathalie has moved behind the scenes as well.
As an actor, Nathalie has appeared in lead and recurring roles in over 40 tv and film productions. She narrates audiobooks (Penguin Random House, ECW Press). She has also performed MOCAP and voices for the wildly popular Assassin’s Creed video game series and voiced an array of characters for many animated series over the years.
As an on-set acting coach, Nathalie taught and prepared actors (kids, teens and adults alike) for 15 years on several seasons of many televised shows (Naturally Sadie, The Latest Buzz, What’s up Warthogs, Life with Boys, How to be Indie, etc.)
This year, Nathalie is nominated for an Emmy for Best Voice Director (to be announced March 2025). She has voice-directed animated shows for 23 years for the largest animation studios in the world, (DREAMWORKS, PBS, BBC, Appletv+, CBC, TVO, Treehouse, CBC, Amazon Prime, Sprout, Netflix etc.) including six seasons of the 2019 Emmy and TCA-award-winning Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood, Emmy-winner Peg Plus Cat, and multi-award winner True and the Rainbow Kingdom. She recently directed both seasons of Emmy-winning Pinecone and Pony and is currently voice directing season 2 of Spin Master/BBC’s new hit show Vida the Vet.
Nathalie also directs live-action television, including La Petite Mairesse, for which she was the showrunner, Amelie et Compagnie (seasons 2 and 3), and Nickelodeon’s award- winning and Emmy nominated Blues Clues and You (seasons 1-5), for which she also became a Creative Producer in its last season.
Amongst her many accomplishments, Nathalie is especially proud of being a mother to her two sons (who are also both voice actors!)