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= TOM TODOROFF (producer, director, acting coach) = Tom Todoroff is an American producer, director, writer, actor and performance coach. Over the course of a career spanning nearly four decades, he has worked with some of the most celebrated and respected names in theater, film, television, sports and music including Peter O’Toole, Bob Hoskins, Liam Neeson, Samuel L. Jackson, Tony Goldwyn, Sasha Alexander, Dakota Johnson among many others. Tom produced and appeared in many TV shows and films. Tom also taught Jimmy Buffett and directed his worldwide concert tour for seven years. He also produced and directed WORKING SHAKESPEARE: RSC MEETS USA - the seminal record of the life-long work of renowned Head of Voice for the Royal Shakespeare Company - Cicely Berry. Tom’s longtime friend and collaborator, casting director Michael Shurtleff, passed his seminal text AUDITION on to Tom before he passed.

History
Tom was born in South Buffalo. He was raised in South Buffalo, Newport Beach, California and Clarence, New York.

He won full scholarships to Beloit College in Wisconsin and The Juilliard School (under Alan Schneider) at Lincoln Center. Later he trained with Edith Skinner, Michael Shurtleff, Cicely Berry, Kristin Linklater, Harold Guskin. He also trained with Stella Adler, at her invitation. Tom went on to play over fifty classical and contemporary roles at theaters around the world. In addition to full seasons at Baltimore Center Stage, The American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, The Williamstown Theatre Festival in Massachusetts, and the Edinburgh Festival in Scotland, he has also performed at UBU Repertory, Theater for the New City, the Riverside Shakespeare Company in New York, The Hangar Theater in Ithaca, and Yale.

Television appearances include the mini-series A WOMAN NAMED JACKIE (also co-writer, Emmy Best Mini-Series), and NORTH AND SOUTH PART III (also co-writer, starring Peter O’Toole). Episodic work includes ALL MY CHILDREN, LOIS AND CLARK: THE NEW ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN, TOUCHED BY AN ANGEL, ARLI$$, and STAR TREK: VOYAGER (with Joel Grey). Film credits include; TURBULENCE, ETHAN FROME, LEAP OF FAITH, TIN CUP, PLAY IT TO THE BONE, DARK BLUE, EL PADRINO, EASY (TORONTO AND SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVALS) and HOLLYWOOD HOMICIDE (with Harrison Ford).

Tom was one of the producers of, and acted in, COBB (with Tommy Lee Jones), which had a Benefit performance in Buffalo at Shea’s Performing Arts Center where the mayor presented him with the key to the city. He produced and directed WORKING SHAKESPEARE: RSC MEETS USA, (a broadcast series), featuring Jeremy Irons, Emily Watson, Lindsay Duncan, Toby Stephens, other members of the Royal Shakespeare with US actors Helen Hunt, Samuel L. Jackson, Claire Danes, Blythe Danner, Robert Sean Leonard, Cherry Jones, Victor Garber, Diane Venora, and others.

His Executive Producing projects include: Telefilms for CBS; BORROWED HEARTS (the number one rated program for the week), starring Roma Downey, Eric McCormack, and Hector Elizondo, MONDAY AFTER THE MIRACLE with Ms. Downey, Billy Campbell, and Moira Kelly, THE TEST OF LOVE (the network’s top rated Wednesday film the year) also with Ms. Downey, SECOND HONEYMOON with Ms. Downey, Tim Matheson, and Michael Nouri, THE SONS OF MISTLETOE with Ms. Downey and Doris Roberts, and THE SURVIVORS CLUB with Ms. Downey, Jacqueline Bisset and James Remar.

Other feature films as Producer/Actor; NO VACANCY with Christina Ricci, Timothy Olyphant, Robert Wagner, Lolita Davidovich, Joaquim DeAlmeida and Patricia Velasquez (premiered at The Los Angeles Independent Film Festival and subsequently; The Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival, The Festival do Rio de Janeiro (held over), Raindance (London), and The Moscow Film Festival; (First Place Best Debut Film), and for Showtime; NORIEGA: GOD’S FAVORITE, with Bob Hoskins, directed by Roger Spottiswoode.

Tom’s projects in development include numerous texts with writer/director Ron Shelton. Tom is a member of SAG-AFTRA, Actors Equity Association, as well as acting and filmmaking organizations nationwide . The Producers Guild of America, the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, The American Dialect Society, The Linguistic Society of America, The Voice and Speech Trainers Association, The Creative Coalition and The National Speakers Association. He is an Artist in Residence at the Ridgefield Playhouse in Ridgefield, Connecticut.

Tom has lead numerous workshops for SAG-AFTRA and Actors Equity nationwide. He currently coaches actors, directors and artists from all walks of life on a weekly basis, live, online in The Workshop on Saturdays, Mondays and Tuesdays. He resides in New York City, Santa Monica, California and Weston, Connecticut. Tom is an avid surfer, cyclist, football fanatic, Beatlemaniac, Led Zeppelinite, rock & roll drummer and dog lover. He is left-handed.

Worked with Tom
Tom has coached, directed, produced and/or acted opposite:

Sasha Alexander, Joan Allen, Karen Allen, Shamier Anderson, Patricia Arquette, Michael Bent, Cicely Berry, Jacqueline Bisset, Jimmy Buffett, Kate Burton, Kerry Butler, Billy Campbell, Elpidia Carrillo, Nell Carter, Josh Charles, Susan Cowsill, Gavin Creel, Marcia Cross, Henry Czerny, Blythe Danner, Claire Danes, Daniel Davis, Lolita Davidovich, Joaquim DeAlmeida, Jeff “The Dude” Dowd, Roma Downey, Lindsay Duncan, Hector Elizondo, Scott Ellis, Harrison Ford, Darrell Foster, Victor Garber, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Perri Gilpin, Richard Gere, Brendan Gleeson, Tony Goldwyn, Topher Grace, Joel Grey, Bruce Greenwood, Lukas Haas, Marriette Hartley, Mariel Hemingway, Bob Hoskins, Helen Hunt, Samuel L. Jackson, Bianca Jagger, Allison Janney, Cherry Jones, Tommy Lee Jones, Dakota Johnson, Moira Kelly, Robert Lansing, Carl Lewis, Daniel Lindsay, Ray Liotta, Lucy Liu, Heather Locklear, Gabriel Mann, Eric McCormack, Dina Merrill, Sienna Miller, George Morfogen, James Naughton, Liam Neeson, Timothy Olyphant, Peter O’Toole, Gwyneth Paltrow, Lou Diamond Phillips, Christina Ricci, Doris Roberts, Keri Russell, Rene Russo, Bas Rutten, Josef Sommer, Jill St. John, Paul Stanley, Toby Stephens, Jon Tenney, Richard Thomas, Maria Tucci, Carmen Twillie, Diane Venora, Katie Wagner, Natasha Wagner, Robert Wagner, Emily Watson, Dar Williams, Robert Wuhl, Alex Wurman & Rachel York.

Technique
Tom Todoroff has codified the following set of essential concepts and tools, drawn from his time training with Stella Adler, collaborating with Michael Shurtleff, studying at Juilliard and directing, producing, coaching and acting in Hollywood, New York, London and abroad. The Todoroff Technique is an all-encompassing and prescriptive, based on each individual’s specific needs. This work arms the actor, performer or public speaker with an “unshakable skill set” to master any material (classical theater texts, film and television) and any environment (last minute filmed audition to repertory theater performance).

The Technique rests on four pillars:


 * Text Analysis: Shurtleff & Todoroff's Fifteen Guideposts
 * Physical Awareness: The Six Viewpoints
 * Vocal Awareness: Four Parts of Vocal Variation
 * Work Ethos: Four Agreements, Three Tenets, Three Techniques

This approach has been proven over the nearly forty years Tom has been working with actors around the world.

Tom Todoroff Studio Founding
The Tom Todoroff Studio was founded in 1983 in Santa Monica, California and New York City, New York, when Tom first began to draw on his breadth of experience as an actor, director, producer, writer, voice & speech coach and dialectician. Over the years, Tom honed his method of instruction while coaching actors daily on stage, on TV and on film sets and in his studio classes.

His coaching method for actors now provides a set of tools designed to address each individual's needs. The tools are as follows: The Fifteen Guideposts, Six Viewpoints, Four Agreements, Four Parts of Vocal Variation, Three Tenets and Three Techniques.

The Workshop
Over the years, colleagues and clients alike continually urged Tom to create a program for actors, where this training would be available on a full-time basis. Thus began The Workshop, where actors train live online from anywhere in the world on Saturdays, Mondays or Tuesdays on an ongoing basis.

In Tom's words, "the most direct route to being a working actor is to study and train with those who have manifested professional work themselves. " Training in the Workshop therefore combines technical skill with real world knowledge.

By studying with a faculty of accomplished artists and industry professionals, Workshop actors are exposed not only to the full complement of fundamental disciplines, but also to expert practitioners whose instruction is based both on rigorous technique and extensive first-hand experience.

The Workshop, which meets weekly on Saturdays and Mondays online, was also designed to respond to the changes in the TV / Film / Theater Industry, where actors are expected to film their own auditions or do them live on zoom the majority of the time. The Workshop training therefore prepares actors to make the strongest first impressions in this context and provides a place where they can develop and hone their acting and auditioning skills in a joyful, international community of passionate, dedicated people - much like being part of an artistic gym.