06/07/2024
Want to learn new techniques or improve your craft as an actor with an award winning casting director?
Kim Gelvin specializes in character development, audition techniques, and scene study for all genres.
ONLINE ACTING LESSONS
For Beginners to Advanced Professionals
in Theatre, Film and Television (all very different styles)
with
Professional Teaching Artist
And Acting Coach
Kim Gelvin
Kim is full member of the Australian Directors Guild and Australian Writers Guild,
Casting Director with AACTA (Australia’s AFI),
a professional actress, and a Wardrobe Freelance Artist
with the MEAA since 2001.
Private Sessions available
Tuesdays through Fridays
One on one session prices per lesson
1 hour $140 USD
2 hours $ 250 USD
shared session for two students (prices per lesson)
1 hour $225 USD
2 hours $399 USD
Saturdays group classes for maximum six students
(teens and adults only)
$400 per hour USD
Teacher located in Melbourne, Australian
Any in person coaching will require
Parental permission for students under the age of 18 years.
Please note these times are subject to change due to film production schedules but happy to work with anyone from anywhere who has a passion to act.
Payment must be made 24 hours in advance and no refund. And changes to time are allowed where available.
Please contact Kim at [email protected] for availability.
A LITTLE HISTORY
Since 1987 Kim Gelvin has taught acting to all ages from 5 years to 70 years for the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival in New York and New Jersey, and privately for the Indian Mountain School, the Montessori Cobb School and Impact in Connecticut, The Dallas Theatre in Dallas, Texas, Margo Manning Casting and Acting Studio in Los Colinas, Dallas, private coaching and group classes for KGM Casting and Acting Studio, Shakespeare’s Sisters, Artifacts next to The Malt House, Southbank, Melbourne, Linda’s Rising Stars, and Jan Sheedy School of Grooming in Melbourne, to name a few.
Kim has judged the best casting for the prestigious AACTA AWARDS
For all of Australian film and television in 2021,
Best New Young Talent for the AFI Awards in 2006, and judge for the play writing competition, “Short and Sweet” at the Melbourne Arts Centre and for The Young playwright talent competition at the Saint Martin’s Theatre 2009.
With film credits and awards that include Oliver Stone’s Oscar winning feature film “Born On the Fourth of July”, short films, “An Art Form Is Born”, “LOOP” and “Seething Night” which all won international film festivals awards, as well as cast Amnesty International, and Sony commercials and many more.
Kim Gelvin is also a highly acclaimed theatre director and producer for such plays as
Remember Ronald Ryan, 360 Positions In A One Night Stand, Miss Julia,
and The Four Poster, and for numerous virtual theatre and television productions in Second life.
Kim has penned and produced adaptations of the short stories Fantastic Mr. Fox
And The Yellow Wallpaper, as well as written numerous plays, television pilots, and screenplays like
“The Paper Wall”, Autumn Moon, Wizard of the North, Letting Go, and Guardian 11:11 and 2 Be Witched.
Embrace the challenge and enjoy the journey!
Thank you so much for your desire to learn. Kimmi G.
