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September 5, 2008
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Welcome to our Best-Selling Authors Page

This page is a guide for a more efficient journey among our authors, a router in digital language.  Here we highlight each author's principal professional focus, although most of our authors are renaissance people with "multiple personalities."  Look at a picture, a focus and a city.  If you like what you see, push the picture and enter that author's domain.

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KRISTEN DABROWSKI

  • Teen Director and Coach
  • New York City
  • Actress, Writer, Acting Teacher & Director

GLENN ALTERMAN

  • Monologue and Audition Coach
  • New York City
  • Award-winning playwright, actor, author

DEBBIE LAMEDMAN

  • Private Acting Coach
  • Los Angeles
  • Actress, Author, Acting Teacher & Director

RICHARD BRESTOFF

  • Professional Preparation
  • UC of Irvine CA
  • Actor, Author, Acting Teacher

L.E. McCULLOUGH, Ph.D.

  • Young Actors Playwright
  •  New Jersey
  • Musician/composer, Author, Playwright 

JANET MILSTEIN

  • Teens Coach
  • Chicago
  • Actress, Audition Teacher & Coach, Author 

BARBARA LHOTA

  • Forensics for Practice and Competition
  • Chicago
  • Award-winning Playwright, former Forensics student & judge, Author 

SHANE ANN YOUNTS

  • Voice Techniques and Shakespeare
  • New York City
  • Master Teacher at NYU in the Graduate Acting Dept. (MFA program), Author, Audition & Dialect Coach

JON JORY

  • Former artistic director of the Actors Theater of Lousiville
  • Seattle
  • Playwright

MAUREEN JOHNSON

  • Innovative Teaching Techniques
  • Ohio
  • Teacher and Director 

LOUISE THISTLE

  • Dramatizing Literature
  • San Diego
  • Award-winning Playwright, Teacher, Actress, and Author

THERESA REBECK

  • Victorian Melodrama
  • Smith and Kraus Playwright of the year
  • New York City
  • Playwright, screewriter, TV writer and producer

JOHN SHEPARD

  • Acting for the camera
  • Pittsburgh
  • Actor, Acting Teacher & Director

RICK HAMILTON

  • Director of Shakespeare

  • Carmel, CA

  • Director, Author

FREDI OLSTER

  • Director of Shakespeare
  • Carmel, CA
  • Assistant Director & Coach, Author

 

DIZ WHITE

  • Comedy Group
  • Los Angeles, CA
  • Actor, playwright, screenplay writer, director &  teacher