Aspiring actors will need help understanding how to break into their industry and are probably curious about what skills an actor needs to be hired regularly. Our acting coaches can help build your audition portfolio, demo reel, improve your acting techniques, help you develop stage confidence, and work with you to craft an overall artistic persona that will stand out on the audition circuit and in networking scenarios.
Our aim at Express Voice studio is to give you a non-traditional acting school, where semester enrolment is obsolete. Direct your own course and register for what suits your goals, whether that be professional endeavors or just the desire to explore acting as a total beginner.
We offer acting classes in Toronto and Montreal. Our programming includes 1-3 month acting workshops, private acting training with the coach of your choice, online acting classes, one day acting intensive workshops, and training with celebrated guest coaches in our group classes. Our roster of acclaimed actors also enables us to use our industry connections to give you access to casting directors and professional actors who can help you further your own career.
Pursue Acting With Confidence
Toronto has one of Canada’s most vibrant acting scenes, with a first class entertainment industry heavily invested in film and television. In only a few months, you could find yourself booking regular gigs as a working actor for commercials, T.V, and film. Learn how to be a great actor, and trade in your supporting roles for the principal role of your dreams.
Acting schools in Montreal have historically only catered to the traditional university format. For those artists or amateurs who just want to explore acting, EXPRESS is thrilled to provide you with in person, a la carte lessons in a new age acting studio. Build your self confidence, find your own interpretation of famous scenes, take private sessions, and work with highly acclaimed coaches whose own acting and connections in the industry will undoubtably inspire and benefit you.
In Montreal, students can take advantage of our group lessons or private coaching. All levels and ages are welcome.
Understanding support is key to any healthy and beautiful stage voice. Lets discover what it means for your body to support the singing and speaking voice and you will finally experience free and powerful expression! We will also work on increasing vocal range: how you use your voice to express emotion in text. Our work will also cover stage movement, finding the natural motivation to say something or make a gesture, how to connect with other actors in a scene, and various methodologies for acting to become a better actor.
How do you succeed as an artist in Canada? Confidence is key. This Service is all about how to get comfortable on camera and how to work a room. Singers and actors need to be masters at controlling the room in auditions, switching on your inner boss aura at events, and leading the room.
Looking for a stage confidence coach for artists in Toronto or Montreal? Often singers will be required to feature in music videos and photo shoots: How do you become comfortable in music videos? How do you look natural in photos? How do you ensure that your voice and vision for your art is being translated and respected by the team around you?
It’s time to manifest the confident diva inside and take over the industry with your personality and confident demeanor.
This service targets two key elements of “success” coaching: Mind set work and networking.
Private coaching with Juliette Louie will cover how to turn heads & connect with people who matter. You will discuss how to network in the acting industry in Toronto and Montreal or the music industry and by the end of the coaching you will feel confident making connections in the music industry or in the acting world in Canada.
Mind set work goes beyond confidence in networking and extends to the confidence of knowing who you want to be as an artist and staying true to that vision. Work with Juliette to ensure consistency in your artistic portrayal across social networks and throughout your package; Your package may include a demo reel for actors or photo shots and music videos for singers.
Capitalize on your unique factor: What is your brand?
Wondering how do you create a package for casting agencies in Toronto and Montreal? Commercial acting coaching sessions are tailored to the budget of the student and can include creating a demo reel and package for casting agencies in Toronto and Montreal. With her years of experience, Juliette is one of the few working actors who has created a full time career in the commercial, tv & film industry.
If you. are just starting out in acting and consider yourself a beginner, you may be wondering is there someone who can help me build an acting portfolio in Toronto or Is there someone in Montreal or Toronto who can teach me about the acting industry? Yes! Juliette will make sure to give you all of her experience so that you can navigate your acting career with confidence.
By the end of these sessions you will know how to sell yourself in auditions, have a package, have worked on your acting with a seasoned coach, and of course know everything there is to know about the commercial acting industry. Acting classes will become focused on YOUR needs, instead of being designed for a group in an acting studio.
BIO
Juliette is an actor, model, coach and Miss Hong Kong 2017. With her training in acting, dance & stage performance, Juliette coaches and develops new talents who want to pursue the mainstream commercial world, modelling or pageantry or film industry. Her expertise lies in building artists public personas and how an artist can capitalize on their unique factor for networking, photoshoots, video shoots, and performances. Ho
Sometimes you have just a few seconds with someone who can change your life forever. How do we get audiences to fall in love with us and our art ? Whether it’s your look or your sound, to be successful as a singer or actor you must go beyond voice training for acting or music. You must exude your energy, your message and your brand effortlessly – and with high value.
“Give yourself the best chance possible and train with me. When it’s not go time, use it to practice. When it’s go time, you’ll be ready.”
Scotty Gannon organizes and hosts multiple intensives and day workshops for actors throughout the year. His life experience in film, stage, and television acting allows him to work with his students on camera work, stage and scene study, and perfecting self tapes. While some group classes will be suited for working actors looking to achieve their best performance and book more work, other courses will be designed as acting for beginners. For all private coaching with Scotty and to know what upcoming classes may be suited for your level, please contact us.
New to Montreal, Scotty has been and actor/ theater artist for over 35 years and a teacher for 25 years. He has an MFA in Acting and a BFA in Drama Performance. He is the owner of Gannon Performance Studio created in Atlanta GA where he taught and coached film and television
actors. He has taught at Atlanta’s Tony-Award- Winning Alliance Theater and coached actors who have worked on Netflix, Disney, Marvel, HBO, NBC, CBS, The Discovery Channel, ID Network, Tyler
Perry, Warner Brothers, American Film Company, 20 th Century Fox, national and regional commercials, independent films, industrials, and in countless professional and regional theaters.
He is a member of The National Alliance of Acting Teachers, iACT (the international acting coaches’ union), and AACE (Canada’s Association of Acting Coaches and Educators). With a broad base in performance, some of his theater credits include Hamlet machine at 7 Stages, Conscience in Attic at the Atlanta Fringe Festival, Astrov in Uncle Vanya at the Cellar Theater, the roles of Cathy and Joshua in Studio 109’s Cloud 9, Friendly in Friendly’s Fire at the Classic City Fringe, Vince in Kiss of the Vampire at the Process, Desoto in Unto the Hills, Ichabod Crane in Rose of Athens touring company performance of Sleepy Hollow, Lucentio in Taming of the Shrew, Hamlet/ Juliet/ Othello in The Complete works of William Shakespeare at Circle Ensemble, Brabantio in Othello as a University of Georgia Alumni Artist, Milo in Splinters at Alliance Theater, Dougie in Process theater’s The Dead Guy, and a soloist in Jaques Brel is Alive and Living in Paris.
Television credits include roles on Ordinary Joe on NBC, Murder Calls, Homicide Hunter, Mr. Klein on The Rejects Club (Amazon Prime) and was regular on the pilot series Abigail. Film projects include Eros in Eros (Supremacy Films), Morty in Requiem for a Writer, and Father in Death of an Artist. He has directed devised stage productions such as A Rhyme Deferred at The Black Theater Ensemble examining the effects of commercialism on art, Our Hope, Our Church, Our Play which explored the intersection of sexuality and spirituality in conjunction with The Metropolitan Community Church as well scripted works like Forget Him by Harvey Fierstein, The Lover by Pinter, Brilliant Traces by Cindy Lou Johnson, and Coax by Neil Labute. He wrote and performed his solo performance, SpUnOwT at the Process Theater in Atlanta and The Cellar Theater in Athens.
Learning to leave a lasting impression in an audition is an art form in itself. Victoria has worked in every modality of performance art, from voice acting to movies, in both french and english. She excels at nailing her auditions and has worked with students on accessing their audition repertoire with new techniques. Students will be comfortable changing between their characters in auditions and feel more at home emotionally connecting on cue to give the best performance they can in the audition setting.
Victoria Diamond is a multi-disciplinary artist who started performing at a young age in Halifax, Nova Scotia. As a child, she studied ballet, jazz and tap dance, and she was cast in her first professional lead role at age 9. From there, she performed a variety of roles in TV, film, theater, and musicals, as well as voiceover work in her home city.
After graduating from a French immersion high school and finishing university studies in philosophy and history, she was accepted in a 3-year contemporary dance program in Montreal. It was there that she came to the attention of a director who had an extensive background in French theater and encouraged Victoria to pursue acting, casting her in her first French play.
Upon graduation from dance school, Victoria continued to pursue her acting studies in various programs and workshops, including the Neighborhood Playhouse in NYC, Meisner method with Jacqueline McClintock, physical theater with Debby Mulholland in Italy, as well as a various other forms of acting and movement related training: clown, voice training, improvisation, yoga teacher-training, and Alexander technique. Victoria has developed an eclectic and successful career, working in both English and French entertainment industries in television, theater, film and voice work. In 2019, she won a Gemini award for her performance in the Quebec TV series, Nomades. Recent credits include: Forever, plus a day (Crave) Blood & Treasure (CBS) in the upcoming Quebec feature film, Lignes de Fuites (Catherine Chabot/Cinémaginaire).
Victoria has been teaching movement and coaching actors in various capacities since she started working professionally at the age of 12. Through her experience in dance, theater, somatic therapies and yoga, she has a broad depth of knowledge about how to prepare oneself globally for the various demands of the actor. In tandem with her acting career, she is currently the recurring on-set acting and accent coach for Moozoom, an interactive children’s show that is distributed all through North America.
Alex Nicol
Jordanne was exceptional - I can't recommend her work enough to anyone seeking to improve their vocal technique and/or strength. She takes a full-body approach to singing, based on her training in Alexander Technique, which in my case meant connecting my posture to tension across my whole body. With Jordanne's guidance I was able to go from singing with tension and strain to singing with fluidity and support, all within a very short period of time. The newfound confidence I have in my voice is life-changing!
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Tara
Robert is the best voice teacher I've ever had. In addition to having an amazing voice and range (helpful when I need to hear the notes back) he's incredibly supportive and fun to work with. I've improved my voice drastically and he really helped me through learning to belt and riff! Thank you Robert!!
Rebecca
I absolutely LOVE Tylor. I started singing last May and I was super nervous about it. Singing is extremely personal and vulnerable, and for me it’s been so hard to feel comfortable enough to go to lessons because of how insecure I am about my voice. Once I summoned the courage to finally take lessons, I have to say that Tylor really went above and beyond to ensure I felt comfortable and safe.
Laurena Mayifuila Mayowele
Jordanne is great teacher! For the first time I contact her, I am very pleased. She took the time to truly understand what I needed. And, the first time I met her she made me feel so comfortable that I felt at ease to express myself. She made me do some exercise to see what my blocage was. Then gave me a routine, which is exactly what I needed. It have been only 3 courses but I can experience the change and improvement. And not only in singing and piano. I wasn’t aware of all the tension I use to have in my body. Now that I am conscious of that, I am able to relax my body and feel a deep connection.
Samantha Timmons
I did my first lesson with Jordie last week. She is very patient and has a lot of knowledge on vocal training. She made me see things from a different light in just one session! Her knowledge is impeccable. I’m looking forward to working on my voice with her! I already feel improvement in just a week. Truly recommend her.
Julian Basurto
Throughly enjoyed my lessons with Express and Ian! Would definitely recommend. I looked for a long time for a singing teacher that I could have fun with, connect with, and grow my voice. Ian was definitely that teacher for me. The concerts were great too to be a part of. Thank you guys!