Los Angeles based acting classes and coaching - private acting classes - on camera acting for television, movies and commercials with improvisation.  Acting for directors, writers and non-actors.

Toni Attell is an Emmy nominated actress who offers acting classes and coaching in Los Angeles.  Her credits includes a variety of work in television and movies, as well as, experience working with some of the masters of the performance arts field, internationally.  Some of these include Jean Louis Barroult. Marcel Marceau and Mamako Yoenyama for mime, Carlos Mazzonne for Comedia del Arte, Bill Ball, David Dukes, Paul Shanar, David Alexander, Nina Foche and Harvey Lembeck for improvisation, comedy and acting.        more . .

Life is not a dress rehearsal.  If Acting is your dream, then let me make it quickly a reality for you with Los Angeles Acting Teacher and coach

"The amazing thing is, Toni, that when I got that part... and it all happened pretty fast... suddenly, all the techniques you taught me just came to me. I took such a different approach to it than I had taken when I did parts before. I learned so much from you so quickly. Dammit, you made a real actor out of me!! Wait till I tell you all about it."

~ Patrick McCarthy - sitcom writer, and now actor as well!

I wanted to thank you for all the stuff you taught us last week. It was really interesting and useful for us. I was very happy to know that you are an hypnotherapist too.  I am really interested in hypnosis as i think that acting is a trance and I believe that Chekhov was a master in self-hypnosis. I intend to work with a hypnotherapist in France in order to overcome my difficulties and I may take a training course in hypnosis.
I'd love to use past-live regression to understand myself, and to be able to bring back some abilities or emotions that I can use on stage.
As they say in the method : we can't play what we haven't experienced.
But I think that we can experience anything through hypnosis !
I know that you're teaching in UCLA.  I may take a full-time training there in a few years so I hope you'll still be working there.
Let me know about your work, i wish you all the best,
~  Binh

Toni - hi! Just wanted to let you know that I am moving to Dallas (where I'm from) at the end of this month. Excited and nervous but am following my instincts on this one. Will NOT be easy to leave California but perhaps I'll be back someday, you never know! Anyhow, just wanted to thank you for being a great teacher and for playing a part in my healing during the hardest time of my life thus far. I really enjoyed your acting classes and the psychic salon! That will always be one of my fondest LA experiences.

Best of luck to you and thank you again -
~ Julie