Gratefully I have been a professional Actor since 1993. I became a Coach 10 years ago and just love it. Right now, I am proudly Coaching at Milne Studios here in Toronto. In the classes I teach, the main goal is to get students to understand that all good Acting comes from putting your attention squarely on your scene partner. But in order to get there we must start with a solid scene analysis, culminating in finding that all important Objective, and those Tactics. Then students are ready to play: Pulling the scene this way, and pushing it the other, all the while going after what they want from each other. Sounds nice and easy, but it is anything but. Acting is tough stuff. I try to have the people in my class adopt the attitude on day one as if they are dumping a puzzle on the kitchen table and starting to put the puzzle together. I don't want anyone coming in thinking they have to win an Oscar on the first day.