These
Are The Thanks I Get
Kerry Lynne Feirman
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Kelvin Han Yee
Daphne, thank you so much for such an amazing
class. I enjoyed every minute of your teaching
and I feel you have helped me grow tremendously
as a commercial actor!
It seems like an eon ago when I took your
Commercial Class. I booked 8 National SAG
commercials for Comcast Digital. The agency was
Goodby, Silverstein & Partners and the
director was Martin Granger for Moxie Pictures.
We shot a week ago at Jim Henson/Chaplin Stages.
Wow! What an experience! After and initial
audition and two call backs with improv, singing
and dancing, I landed a principle role. Thank you
for all your training, help and dynamite
encouragement! Just wanted to share the great
news with you!
I have a great news! I've booked my first
national commercial for Toyota! I'm so happy! I
definitely would not have gotten this without my
commercial training from you. Thanks
Daphne!
What a delightful soul you are. For me, it was
all about unlearning old habits and rediscovering
my joy for the craft. Your contagious energy,
your commitment to positive energy, your
one-on-one sensitivity and insight into
individual development and your compassionate
approach to nurture the best in each of our
students makes you an amazing teacher and damn
fine human being.
When I found out you'd studied with at the
Neighborhood Playhouse with Sanford Meisner,
Larry Moss and other great teachers, I thought
your classes would be intense, uncomfortable and
frustrating. Boy, was I wrong. Somehow you've
taken the best and turned it into your own
special positive, supportive technique.
Daphne, I booked a Porsche commercial last week!
As you can imagine, I'm thrilled. Your work
played a huge part in my audition... Thank you
for a great class. To be honest, I was dreading a
commercial class but you changed my mind. Again,
thanks for among other things to remember to
sit/stand up straight, keep my hair out of my
eyes, ask to rehearse, cozy up to my partner, be
charming (in my mind, be Daphne), etc., etc.,
etc.!
I just wanted to drop another quick note to thank
you for all your help. I booked my first
commercial this week and the callback was exactly
as you described. Thanks again.
I just got my first really good news since I left
your class. I booked a role on a new pilot that
shoots next week. I walked out KNOWING that they
were going to call. Thanks for that, Daphne- it
was really because of you that I went in taking
it easy and not plowing straight into my read.
I'm really thrilled. I can't believe how little
time I had to put in before the first payoff.
Onward and upward.
After working in the nonunion commercial market
for over a year, thanks to your Commercial
Workshop class, I've learned techniques that have
helped me to audition with more warmth,
confidence, and enthusiasm; I started booking
more jobs, and signed with an agent for
union-only work. I'm excited about pursuing my
growing career because I now have the tools to do
it well! I highly recommend your class to anyone
who wants to work in this industry.
Thank you again; I recently went in for a Joe
Pytka spot. I've auditioned for him before with
no luck, but this time I put your skills to work
AND BINGO! Pytka calls me, Loree Booth calls my
agent and says they have loved me all along, and
I shot my first IBM national spot! Thanks to
getting that ego out of the way! You're the
best!
I just wanted to write and thank you again for
everything you passed along to me during your
class. All your knowledge helped me land my first
commercial! Thanks again, and hopefully I'll be
able to pass on more success stories in the
future.
I must tell you that your personality exudes
inspiration. You inspired me to think smart. Your
presence, intuition and teachings (last, yet far
from least) rival Stanislavski and Strasberg in
the assurance of your techniques succeeding. the
aura you left with me has given me many
opportunities. Thank you Daphne.
I cannot thank you enough for such a great class!
When I first called you I had just come from a
horrible audition. It had really knocked me for a
loop. Thank you for your positive direction,
knowledge and lovely spirit. Your class has been
immeasurable in benefit to me.
Prior to taking your class I was called in for
auditions often but rarely, if ever, booked
anything on camera. Since taking your class I
have booked an Adelphia Cable HDTV spot, XBOX
Commercial, a Wagner Control Commercial, and an
independent feature film which I just wrapped on
Sunday. My stage acting was "too big" for
"on-camera" and you helped me bring it down and
focus it for the camera lens. I tell everyone
that if they are thinking about getting an agent,
or booking ANYTHING on camera, to take this
class! I promise them that this class will get
you energized and motivated to continue working
at your craft so that you will become a "booker!
Thank you Daphne!
I had an awesome time in your 6-week commercial
intensive. The knowledge you gave us will be the
key element in my success and confidence. Thank
you!
Thank you so much for all your guidance; your
class has been the highlight of my week. The warm
environment has given me the confidence to follow
through at every audition.
Thank you for everything! I really enjoyed your
class and am looking forward to using the
information and principles that I learned from
you in the immediate future. I was really just
looking to knock the rust off, and I got more
than I bargained for. Again, thank you for your
instruction, advice, and help. It has meant more
to me than you might believe.
I've taken many classes in the past. Your class
was the only one that revealed what commercial
casting directors really go through and what they
look for. I emerged from your class armed with
knowledge and brimming with confidence! -
Thank you for the wonderful experience that I had
in taking your workshop. You are an utmost
professional, but by the same token, you have a
nurturing warmth and understanding towards the
actor. These kind qualities juxtaposed with your
blunt honesty makes for a truly inspirational
workshop. There have been many more callbacks
(which I know is due to my increased confidence
that is directly correlated with all of the
education I gained in your workshop.
I came out you classes motivated, inspired and
ready for anything. Must be working because I
just booked a movie. You've really got me going
in the right direction.
First of all THANK YOU for a wonderful 6 weeks! I
really enjoyed it and learned so much more than I
thought I would (to be quite honest). Let me tell
you that last week in the very 1st audition in
which I applied what you taught, I got the call
back AND booked the spot for an Associated
Television documentary!
Thank you so much for the outstanding education
of the commercial word. The class was a blast!
You are a true pleasure.
Thank you for sharing your wisdom, your wealth of
experience, your great smile and your
positive, supportive energy. I'll be making
use of all the notes I took!
Thank you, Daphne for taking everything I'd been
taught and turning it into something that really
does the job. I have much more confidence going
into auditions. You're the best.
I credit your workshop for helping me to
immediately book a Budweiser SuperBowl spot.
Since then I've been in Collateral Damage, The
Sum of All Fears, Minority Report, Catch Me If
You Can, and many, many commercials.
I just booked a speaking part in a Nike
commercial. You taught me well
I want to tell you how much I loved your class.
It was so great for me to get up and practice
commercials in such a supportive, fun
environment. Thank you so much!
Your teachings are amazing! Had an amazing
audition today for General Hospital and booked
it. Everything you taught us I did and I had a
flawless audition. Just wanted to let you know
you continue to make a difference.
I just wanted to thank you so much for your
tremendous class--I got so much out of it both
professionally and on a personal basis. Thank you
so much and I look forward to catching up very
soon...oh and I have been referring your class to
all of my friends--I'm hoping they sign up with
you!
Your class was an absolute pleasure to attend. In
a matter of weeks I learned so much about the
commercial industry and had a great time doing
it. Every audition I'm at I make sure to practice
what you taught me and I'm a much better
performer for it. I would recommend your class to
anyone who wants to book commercials!
Thank you Daphne: I went from not booking, to
getting callbacks, producer reads and, finally, a
role on the Guiding Light. Good things have kept
happening ever since.
I've taken so many classes and felt like I was
wasting my time. I don't know how you do it, but
everything you've given me works. Now, every time
I open my mailbox and find another residual
check, I say a word of thanks to Daphne.
I just wanted to send you a quick note to
reiterate how much I loved your class!!! you have
such a great way of teaching, inspiring and
leaving your students feeling full of confidence
in only SIX WEEKS!!! I just want you to know that
all of the above is so appreciated. Thank you,
thank you, thank you!!!!
I really didn't know what to expect coming into
your class. There are so many teachers who
promise you the world and never deliver. But
within minutes I knew I'd found the source I'd
been looking for. You are not only a wonderful,
caring person, you really know this business and
make it easy to grasp how to put everything you
teach into action. And never once did I see you
use anger, ego or nastiness to make your point.
If only there were more acting teachers like
you.
Thank you again for your time, wisdom and
expertise. I've been on fire incorporating
everything you gave me. In my gut I know
that everything you said was "on the money". I
hope to work with you again and I will recommend
you to anyone.