NATALIA LAZARUS
Founder / CEO
* Bachelor of Fine Arts, New York University
* Associates Degree, American Academy of Dramatic Arts
* Teaches: Intro, Intermediate, & Advanced Sanford Meisner Technique, Stella Adler Technique, Play Production, Actor’s Graduation Showcase, Director’s Key I & II, Defining the Screenplay, Writing the Short Film, Synopsis/Treatment/Outline, Writing the Feature Film, Staging the Scene, The Rehearsal Process, Working with Actors.
* 36 years performing arts experience
Graduate of Sorbonne University, Paris France; the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, New York City; Film Program, NYU, with adjacent studies, University of London, The British Film Institute, and the Ned Herrmann Brain Dominance Center. Artistic Director, Los Angeles Performance Center, and it’s subsidiaries: L.A. Performing Arts Conservatory (LAPAC), 3rd Street Comedy, The Promenade Players Theatre Company; Created and developed the Entertainment Keys to Success Series for Acting, Writing, Directing & Personal Growth Techniques; Private coach for Hollywood celebrities on sets – notably Ken Jeong (The Hangover, Community & Knocked Up), Teresa Ruiz (Border Town, winner of the Cannes Camera d’Or 2010); and International coach in Paris, France for Bridge Media and EICAR: The International School of Cinema, Mexico City for the Guanajuato Film Festival, Acapulco Film Festival, Casa Azul, Foro Shakespeare, TV AZTECA, and Artes Pasion, Tokyo, Japan for River Hollywood Training School, Sao Paolo, Brazil for Instituto Stanislavsky, Provence, France for What Larks Theatre Company and in Los Angeles for the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists;
Writing credits: Screenplays: Getting Even, Norma Beckman’s Return (Hollywood Film Festival winner), Voices of the Drina, based on the Bosnian War, Ripened on the Vine, adapted from the book of the same title, Life Interrupted, Plays: One Woman Show, Birthday Girl (selection at the Edinburgh International Theatre Festival in Scotland). Programs and Books: LAPAC programs curriculum, The Actor’s Key, The Pathology Key, The Director’s Key and The Screenwriter’s Key;
Directorial Credits: Films: Life Interrupted, The Trilogy: Growing Up, The Room, Sans Promesse. Stage: Dennis Wilson Forever, A Picasso, The Dining Room, In Bed with Tenn (a collection of Tennesse Williams One Acts), The Laramie Project, All in the Timing, LORCAbaret, Porno Stars at Home, How To Go Out On A Date In Queens, The Ties that Bind, Top Girls, Crimes of the Heart, and Oh Hell!
Acting Credits: Stage: A Picasso, The Dreamer Examines His Pillow, Savage in Limbo, Fefu and her Friends, Twelfth Night, The Rivals, The Runner Stumbles, Frida Kahlo, Malcolm & Teresa, Chilean Holiday, Woman to Woman, Not the Fifth the Ninth! Phedre, La Dame aux Camelias, White Hat, Kismet and the Damsel, and her one-woman show, Birthday Girl. Film: Across the Line, Hanging With the Homeboys, Portrait of a Puerto Rican, Touchstone, Maria Cristina, Side Bets, Love It Is, DarkRoom, No Promises. Television: Promised Land, On Common Ground, Passions, The Young & The Restless, The Bold & The Beautiful, You Be The Judge, Reyes & Rey, Port Charles, When Seconds Count, Placas, The Big Deal, Sesame Street.
Commercial & Voice Over Campaigns: Anheiser Busch, Bank of America, Dodge, Coca Cola, Texaco, Estee Lauder, Mitsubishi, McDonalds, Gerbers, Smirnoff Vodka, Family Dollar, AT&T, Luna Radio, General Electric, Raytheon, D’Italiano Bread, Origins Skin Care, Lourdes, a Documentary, Kellogs, Western Union, CIA Industrial, and XM Radio. Fluent in English, Spanish, French, and Italian.