Professional casting credits include the second season of the award winning show House of Cards, alongside Emmy Award winning casting director, Julie Schubert.  Additional casting credits include feature films, (Good Funk, Black Nativity, Three Backyards), Webseries (Livin’ the Dream), and theatre projects, (SF Playhouse NYC Casting 2016-Present). Students and private coaching clients have appeared on television shows such as The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Iron Fist, Manifest, Happy, Gotham, Switched at Birth, Tyrant, The Deuce, Jack Ryan, Sneaky Pete, Quantico, Infierno Verde, Jessica Jones, Blue Bloods,…

Author, teacher, image and career coach, Mari Lyn has guided thousands of actors in a career that spans four decades. She was the director of casting, East Coast, for ABC NY for over thirteen years and discovered talent for the ABC talent and development program.  Her workshops and seminars on on-camera techniques, script analysis, auditioning and impression management have been presented in cities and universities across the country. She has co-authored five editions of HOW TO BE A WORKING ACTOR with the late Lynne Rogers. Dubbed…

Christopher is an actor, director, and educator. A proud member of Actors’ Equity Association and SAG-AFTRA, he has acted professionally in theatre, film, and television.  He has taught Clown, Games, and Play at NYU Tisch’s Meisner Studio, The Graduate Acting Program at University of Tennessee in Knoxville, here at John DeSotelle Studio in NYC, and at Queensborough Community College.  He studied with Jane Nichols, Aitor Basauri, and Jim Calder; head of Movement for The NYU Tisch graduate acting program.  But the most life…