Experienced tutor in Acting in New York, Joanna offers private lessons tailored to your needs.

“Joanna has helped me get so many jobs! I always feel excited to get to do what she’s given me, it really cuts down on my nerves.”

—Tessa Auberjonois (Modern Family, The Affair, Shameless, Lucifer, 2017 Lunt-Fontanne Fellow)

Joanna created such a wonderful and safe environment for actors and singers alike to come together and learn to not only be confident in their own skin but to also fully embrace their voice and be proud of their instrument. I felt very blessed to witness the growth of my fellow students and to also be able to come to my own realization that we are not limited in our abilities. Truly, the sky's the limit. I highly recommend Joanna to anyone who needs that extra push if they need guidance and direction if they feel lost about where to take their audience in their song. When it comes to crafting and storytelling, Joanna will 100% absolutely be able to get you to where it is you need to go.

Thank you so much Joanna! Can’t wait to work with you again, Crystal

I am incredibly thankful that my first foray into singing was through Joanna's Acting the Song. I was someone who never sang before, who was horribly self-conscious about her voice and singing, and who bought into the myth that you needed to have natural talent and hit all the right notes to sing a song half decently; Joanna coaxed me out of my shell and showed me that I had it all backwards. Joanna reoriented me away from the crushing paralysis of worrying over the notes and my vocal limitations and directed my focus and attention instead to why I wanted to sing a song. She taught me how to fish for inspiration instead of handing me the answers. She showed me how to ask useful questions about the character, making my character's point of view vivid and specific and reengaging my imagination into telling the story. To my utter surprise and astonishment, my voice followed to places I never knew it could go!

I understand that whether or not you already have had in-person classes, there is always the concern about online classes and the lack of physical presence, but I would say this is an opportunity. You will learn a very valuable set of skills: Joanna focuses heavily on the process and you will, as I have, leave with a treasure trove of questions and approaches that you can apply to any other song or acting scene you plan to learn in the future. Apart from these perks of independent learning, whether it is vocal warm-ups or character development, I thank Joanna for showing me that there is immense joy in rigorously applying the process.

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