Get Present. Get Specific. Get Results.

As an actor with more than 20 years experience, and a trained acting teacher, Melee’s coaching is focused on the practical - with only one goal in mind: to get you present and improve your talent and skills.

Only when you are truly present can you really begin to create. From this core, Melee’s coaching focuses on encouraging you to be specific and committed. You begin to make active, detailed choices and learn to listen to your instincts. Anton Chekhov said “Talent is knowing what to keep and what to throw away” Once you are truly conscious of your choices, you start to become the creative centre of your own work.

Coaching is fundamental in the world of sport. Great athletes know that coaching makes them perform at the top of their game. Dancers and singers stay ‘in training’ as part of their regular routine. Top executives know that coaching is key to personal and company growth. Actors, however can (and often do) get stuck, isolated or grid-locked.. This can lead to a lack of vitality in our approach to auditions and realization of a role. Melee’s coaching is about getting - and keeping - your creative vitality going.

Melee trained as an acting teacher with David Rotenberg (Artistic Director Professional Actor’s lab) and Paul Lampert at York University. She currently teaches in the Acting Conservatory Programme at York, at Professional Actor’s Lab in downtown Toronto.