Elli Maclure

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ACTING COACH: 1991 to present -- Working under birth name - CHRISTINE McCLURE -- Since 1991 Students who have privately coached or trained over a period of years… Acted lead roles opposite actors Matt Damon, Robert DeNiro, Mel Gibson, Robin Williams, Tom Cruise, Dan Akroyd, Melissa Leo, Julie Harris, Nicole Kidman, Susan Sarandon, Kim Basinger, George Clooney, Jeff Bridges, Gerard Butler… … And with directors Sofia Coppola, Stanley Kubrick, Nancy Myers, Tony Scott, Robert Zemeckis, Jim Field Smith, The Coen Brothers, Steven Soderbergh, Alex Kurtzman, Gabriele Mucciano, Gil Kenan, Kim "Rocco" Shields... Students received Best Actress and Actor Awards and Nominations: Oscars, BAFTA’s, Daytime Emmy Awards, Hollywood’s Young Artists Awards, Young Stars, MTV Awards, Critics Choice. Students book leads and supporting roles in all the mediums - Feature Films, TV - Series Regulars, Recurring, Episodic Guests, Pilots, MOW’s, Soaps, Theater. (Credits available). On Set Coaching includes – Contagion, Dir. Steven Soderbergh, with Matt Damon. Coached: Anna Jacoby-Heron. Feature film. A Holiday to Remember, Dir. Jud Taylor. TV movie. Secrets, Dir. Jud Taylor, TV movie. Actress Jessica Bowman, TV movie. Method for Young Actors is based on the Stanislavski system and innovations that stem from that; training and privately coaching actors in film, television, stage, in drama and comedy. Actors begin with sensory work and improvisation; then move on to character work, script analysis and film study. **Exercise work has been adapted for young actors to study the inner technique and character work, the belief being that this enables them to make the age transitions. 2001 – 1999. Los Angeles Film School: Taught – (a) Acting (b) Directing - Working with Actors: studying communication with the actor, the actors language, script analysis, character breakdown and vision - to master interpretative skills and talk conceptually about what needs to be seen in the role. Directed student productions: Shakespeare’s Hamlet, and played the role of Queen Gertrude. Killing & Conscience - A film & theater interactive piece with scenes from Macbeth to Natural Born Killers. 2004. Nirimba Tafe College, Australia: Taught - Acting for Camera. Trained with John Lehne in Los Angeles. A member of The Actors Studio, Mr. Lehne studied with Lee Strasberg and Elia Kazan. SCREENWRITER: 2003 - to present Rules of Silence, MP Screenplay. Teen Drama. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Novel by Anne Bronte. MP Screenplay Adaptation + Teleplay Adaptation. Drama. Chatterton, A Teenage Poet. MP screenplay. Bio pic. Drama. Lamentar. MP screenplay. Action Drama. Optioned, Scott McGinnis, Productions Line Films.