Philip Jacobson
Acting Coach
(215) 206-7462
pwjacobson@AOL.com
www.PhilipJacobson.com/ActingCoach.html
Interested in receiving coaching for your acting career?
Coaching sessions are one-on-one. I help identify appropriate monologues and make
them performance-ready for casting directors. I also provide monologues that will stretch the actor's range and improve
characterizations.
I will help you prepare for a specific audition that you have coming up. I use Improv games and other
techniques to improve your chances at upcoming auditions.
I work on cold reads and almost any issue my students want to
cover. I am very honest and open with my feedback. I won't sugar coat things. But I will also talk about your strengths.
My sessions often turn into life coaching
sessions too. Acting calls on much from your own experience. Sometimes my coaching resolves issues in my students' lives.
Sometimes their performance improves because I help them get in touch with something that has been holding them back. I can
help expand your abilities.
The
sessions last one hour and cost $25. If you want to go past the hour in a session, it's $10 for each additional 15 minutes.
You can pre-arrange a two hour session for $50. If you prepay 5 hour-long sessions for $125, you can attend my Improv
class once free of charge, within 4 months of payment.
We
can arrange session times whenever you and I are both available. Some students meet every week, others every other week. I
have free times in the evening and during the weekdays or weekend days. Go to my schedule through the Link at the top of the
page above or go to www.PhilipJacobson.com/Schedule.html, to see when I have times available.
I
have extensive adult training experience in the corporate world. My training often focused on interpersonal and behavioral
skills. I have taught Improv since 2004, and have a class Wednesday evenings about 50 weeks a year.
I have performed professionally, both live and in film for a
number of years. I have been trained by some very skilled actors and directors.
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This is what you get at other programs:
You attend classes at name schools with the hope that you will learn something and be discovered. The class costs $200, $300,
or $400. There are 9 other students in the class, or 12 or 20. The class runs once a week for 6 weeks, or 4 weeks, or maybe
one long day. Perhaps you can't attend every session. You hear a lecture, and then get to show your skills in front of the
instructor. Then you wait as the others in the class get their turn. And you wait and wait. When it is done, you get some
good and helpful feedback, or it's all positive feedback, or you don't really get honest feedback at all. You also don't get
discovered. But you are put on a mailing list and receive regular requests to sign up for other training programs.
If you are frustrated
by these types of training programs, this is how I differ:
*
one-to-one coaching - you get my full attention for the entire
time
* honest feedback - I will tell
you what is working, and how to change what isn't working
* session flexibility - sessions are scheduled when we both have availability (but do not cancel
less than 24 hours ahead)
* Life coaching
- we may discuss issues in your life that are holding you back from becoming the actor you can be
* Low cost - $25 for a full hour of one-on-one training
* Guaranteed improvement - I don't guarantee jobs, that is up
to you, but I guarantee your improvement
* Specific
issues - get help preparing for an audition or for a role, or to improve a monologue or cold reading
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"Phil Jacobson's individual coaching with me has been invaluable. It has made me
consider new, important aspects of the audition process. Because of coaching I have been carefully observing the subtle
nuances of the work of professionals. Phil has helped me to discover new ways to approach an audition and monologues.
I now consider various choices in each situation. My past training had me working from the inside out. Coaching is helping
me to work from the outside in, which is far more balanced. We work on problems that are specific concerns of mine. I am already
more comfortable when I audition. I hope to continue with Phil's coaching because I feel it will help me attain my goals
as an actress." ---Joan Racik, 3/20/2010
"Philip is coaching me
as an actress. He's awesome: Empathetic and encouraging. Available and honest. Reasonably priced. What more could one ask?"
"With two weeks of his coaching, I've learned more than I did
in two series of classes from one of the most highly-reputed acting teachers in Philadelphia. Philip was brilliant in choosing
a monologue that suited me, and quickly bringing me up to performance level in two coaching sessions." ---Carol
Fritz, 10/12/09
I had a wonderful time, both personally and professionally with
you on Saturday. As I said, I had high expectations about your coaching, but you exceeded them . . . I found you very
insightful about the monologues and also about human nature (isn't acting inextricably linked to that). I like how you
are able to point out both the good things that I did, and what I need to work on, and keep it light and funny (like about
my talking speed!). It's great that you have so much film experience, and can guide me with bringing down (controlling?)
my facial expressions...I like how you took notes on your laptop so you have a record
of impressions and what we talked about . . . and I also liked all the questions that you asked me about the person in the
monologue, to flesh out the backstory. ---Natasha Kelly, 7/6/10
With
your skill and your rates, the Jacobson Studio should have a waiting list of students. I can't say enough good things about
how much I've improved both as an actress and a person since we've been working together. As an actress, the instrument
I have is me. Exploring the possibilities of how to improve on a weekly basis has taken me places I never dreamed I'd go.
---Carol Fritz, 8/21/10
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