LAVOIE

...where acting dreams come true...

I am only offering private lessons at this time.  The cost is $75 an hour.  The benifits of private lessons are:  Personal attention, more profound improvements and Life Coaching is a part of the package.

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The standard in the acting industry is

..."actors get hired for 1 out of almost 50 acting audition -LAVOIE's first year students blew the "competition" away in 2007...they averaged 1 out of 2!" ...without the help of an acting agent or a degree from an acting school.

Let's Review you will be

Dear Karen *LaVoie* ~

"I just arrived home after attending your "Mastering Your Acting" workshop. I was blown away. This would be a bargain at twice the price -- and I am a bargain shopper. :)

I learned everything promised in the synopsis, and more. Not to mention the (very kewl, and more functional than I could have hoped for) custom designed workbook that will allow me to review the resources and techniques you taught us, and continue to work on my craft.

One of my biggest fears was going through the seminar as such a newbie. Now it is clear that the experience of participating with more seasoned actors *greatly* increased my learning opportunity. Your feedback to each of us was relevant, and specific, yet not derogatory or painful.

Thank you for this experience, I only wish I would have done it sooner."  
- E. C. Mathews

YOU Have a Dream...Living it Takes Action

Faith and Values in Acting...
Make a Positive Difference in the World!!!

This is the year of "Being Masterful" for all LAVOIE students.  That is the motto and focus. Plus, we are allowing perfection to be!!!  Bring your faith into your acting career and experience the true meaning of abundance and gratitude. Note, the instructor does not teach religion...the instructor encourages you to acknowledge and live your faith in your career and do Positive messaging roles!

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From the desk of Karen LaVoie

Since I have developed such a strong successful program that allows students to be professional, skilled and confident within hours or months, I say get out there and work after you have completed my "Mastering Your Acting" workshop. Isn’t that your dream? The more you work, the more you are motivated to train and grow. Yes!!

NOW…the most important fact is…GREAT success happens from combining talent and skill. Talent being the freedom to emote, be creative and THE CONFIDENCE to allow it to happen!!! Everything else is skill. Take the incredible product that you have created, “YOU” ,and top it off with excellent marketing skills and a great attitude…whaaalla! You are living your dream …this is why LAVOIE students succeed.

Frequently asked questions:

I've never acted before can you help me?

Yes. I work with beginners thru advanced actors all over the world. Not
only will I be coaching you I will be mentoring you ...telling you each step to take along the way and helping you make it happen. All the fear and confusion will be wiped away.

I already know how to act...do I still need to take your "Mastering Your Acting" Seminar?

Good for you!  However, this workshop is for beginners thru advanced actors.  Why? Most actors have not mastered the fundamentals of acting and they hit a wall at some point and do not get any better.  Talent only takes you so far. It is like in the Olympics...they always say...oh, they missed that ...wow...that is a fundamental they should have known.  People who have trained for over 8 years say when they get done -" I should get a refund from all the other acting classes I have taken ...I learned more here today then all of them combined together!" Believe me, if you do not learn how to audition, cold read, do memorized scenes or market your self better, I will give you a refund.

Am I too old or too young to start acting? NO.  How can I say that.  You start acting when you are ready!  Too young? People start when they are babies.  I do not have children under the age of 9 in my classes. Why?  they do not need a workshop.  They only need a private lesson to get used to being in front of a camera and strangers...the parents require the lesson the most.  They should understand what they are getting into and how to be a good "stage parent".   Too old?  I have one client that started at 75.  She is having the time of her life.  Start when you are ready!

Every time I think I am going to start I get scared!

I hear you.  Let me fill you in on a little secret.  There is no such thing  as stage fright! That's right.  That feeling you get that is going to make you sick...take it and acknowledge it as your talent, passion, creativity screaming to get out!!!!  You feel funny because that is what being alive feels like!  Let me help you master it!.

So Is Karen LaVoie still acting?

I am a veteran L.A. film, TV and commercial actress who has coached for over 18 years.

In addition to being a working Actor, I am an Author, a Teacher and a Powerful Mentor whose students and graduates from my course, "Mastering Your Acting"™ ,enjoy an astounding 46% audition to job success ratio!

My career changing Course, "Mastering Your Acting"™ has proven so popular that I added a companion Course, entitled "Mastering Your World"™. This is a brilliant, forthright blueprint for releasing the YOU within the "controlled" you.

Modestly, I say- I am a much sought after Consultant and Speaker in the Business World. My approach shatters Corporate myths and inspires dynamic living, working, and creative risk taking.

I trained and lived in LA for 10 years and made my living doing National Commercials, TV shows and movies plus industrial films. I was working on Young and the Restless when I decided to move to Portland, Oregon to take care of my Grandmother in 1990. I quit my acting job on Y&R…little did I know I could have commuted back and forth…hindsight is great isn’t it?

Well, I realized very quickly there was no place and no one teaching what I
learned in LA and there are a lot of talented people training - learning old school information. Bummer! So I decided to open my own studio since I taught acting classes in LA where I was training.

Here I am 18 years later loving every minute of it! I love to help people fulfill their dreams. Whether it be in LA, Portland, Chicago, San Francisco, England, you name it. I had people in LA help me (me, a total stranger) make it! So, I like to pass on the same gift to my students that are serious about their careers.

“The best $200 I have ever spent....in the past 20 years is on Karen LaVoie's "Mastering Your Acting" workshop!

I could kick myself that it took me OVER a year and a half to actually take the "Mastering Your Acting" seminar! So many excuses, so many (cough, cough) better places to spend the money. Believe me when I say "DO IT NOW!" Don't make the mistake I made and wait and wait and wait. Now, I can clearly see how I wasted my time and every one else's time in the past year and a half. Time is money, and I've clearly wasted a lot of it by not jumping in and going for it the moment my intuition told me to take Karen LaVoie's seminar more than a year ago! Please learn from me and do it now, you will save yourself years and you will learn from an experienced professional who has learned all of the wrong and the right ways for us! You will gain decades of personal hard earned knowledge and experience......and be well on your way.....in eight hours!”                – Lauren Stocks, Oregon

Credits: Tektronix industrial-principal 2 HP industrials-principal Cupid- day player Metabolize 2000-commercial Right Love, Wrong Time - Day Player First Person Singular - Regular Suicide Isn't Painless - principal Suicide Notes - principal The Journey - lead     "I just want to thank you again for a fantastic seminar. I am so excited to get out and nail my next audition. The light bulb went on in the first two hours of the workshop. I stopped acting and started feeling and being. " -Kelly Jo Horton

…every actor requires an acting coach that is going to be their mentor…so I want to make sure we have that going for us and that you feel the same way. I GIVE 100% to every student that does the same.

How exciting!

You Already ARE Enough. Start There!... I deal with the Universal Laws of success -mastering yourself, constantly throughout my course"Mastering Your Acting"™.

Hire me.. Then pay attention as we (Yes, We! Remember, I’ll be your coach AND mentor) …as WE work through the process of acting! (For those of you in other countries I have my courses for sale in the Products area of my site.) Let me say it one more time. My students enjoy at least a 46% rate of hire to audition ratio. Re-read that last sentence, please. Forty-Six percent!!! The industry standard is 2%.

I created "Mastering Your Acting"™  for YOU. Man! Woman! Child! If you attach the name Actor to yourself everywhere but at the bank loan department, I made this course of study just for you. Your Welcome. Now, learn, grow, do!"

Remember my ebook - it is the corner stone to your progress!

We have a journey before us, you and I. Why are we waiting to start on it?

In short, I have only one goal
                          ...I teach you how to be YOUR best!

Private coaching $75 hr Success takes action!

payments are non-refundable

Please note disclaimer.

Thanks to the State of Oregon NO PERSON OR BUSINESS CAN TEACH ACTING CLASSES OUTSIDE of an OREGON STATE school.  ALL ACTING COACHES in Oregon must stop teaching classes because they are consider to be private schools and they have laws in Oregon forcing all acting coaches to become a private school monitored and regulated by the state of Oregon.

from Pete Ready:

You may not be aware of this fact, so I am providing you with important information about Oregon Law. Oregon Revised Statute (ORS), Chapter 345, defines a private school as: “any private proprietary professional, technical, home study, correspondence, business or other school instruction, organization or person that offers any instruction or training for the purpose or purported purpose of instructing, training or preparing persons for any profession.”

Now I am guessing they will also shut down dance studios, singing coaches...you get the idea...since people do go onto careers from that kind of training.

So as of June 10, 2008 am teaching acting for those people who just want to have fun...a hobby not a profession.

.. until the State of Oregon realizes I do not offer accredit classes, diploma's or expect government funding or state funding or accept financial aid.

I do not scam people for thousands of dollars and offer false hopes.

by the way...to receive the State of Oregon's approval it cost lots of money, tons of laws and paperwork and restriction on what I teach and how I coach my clients.

PLEASE FEEL FREE TO EMAIL PETE READY and let him know your feelings on this Oregon State Law.

Pete Ready
Education Specialist

Office of Educational Improvement & Innovation
Oregon Department of Education
255 Capitol Street NE
Salem, OR 97310
503.947-5785
pete.ready@state.or.us

So until further notice I am not selling any products in OREGON...since that could help you be "professional".  I will be teaching acting for a hobbie...pure fun! :-)  so disregard any other offers on my website that say otherwise until furthur notice.

Thank you for your support and understanding.

LAVOIE- eMail: lavoie@lavoie.biz

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