Acting for Teens

Eva Kotch, whose daughters study privately with Cheryl, says, "The girls love to work with Cheryl. Her ability to connect with them and get to heart of a character, a script, or an emotion in such a short amount of time is really incredible."

Cheryl has been working with children of all ages since the early 1980's and has been working with the young actors in All My Children for several years.

To sign up or for more info, contact Cheryl at 212-838-2134. Payments accepted via PayPal or by check. Email Cheryl to request an invoice.

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Alexa Gerasimovich, who plays Kathy on All My Children, works with Cheryl before all her auditions. Alexa's mother Caroline says, "Cheryl King is an excellent acting coach. I saw a difference in my daughter's acting ability from the first time she began working with her. My daughter improves with every acting lesson and she is flourishing into a wonderful actress. Cheryl is truly amazing!"

Alexa Gerasimovich

Kathy on All My Children

Rep - CESD Talent

CHERYL KING - Bio

Cheryl King is the owner, and artistic and managing director of Stage Left Studio, the only solo show repertory theatre in NYC. She is the resident acting coach at All My Children, the Emmy-winning daytime drama at ABC. Her performance background includes multiple careers, in vaudeville/burlesque, mime, 13 years in standup comedy and 12 years in theatre in NYC. Her internationally acclaimed solo show, "not a nice girl", has had runs Off-Broadway in NYC, in Los Angeles and Ft. Collins, CO. Her television credits include ABC's 20/20, and Faking It on TLC, in an episode that was also featured on Oprah! She has taught acting and improvisation in elementary and high schools for over 20 years, in Georgia, Virginia, Tennessee, Maryland, and Colorado.

She formed her own production company, Cheryl King Productions, in 2000, and has produced several acting retreats, over 300 showcases, and three years of V-Day events. She is the creator of the Left Out Festival, an annual festival of gay performance art, which sold out most of the performances in 2008 and 2009, and which has garnered media sponsorship from Backstage, Village Voice and many online magazines. The festival’s net proceeds go to Bailey House and GMHC. In November 2008 she was chosen "Person of the Year" by nytheatre.com. She also created the Women At Work Festival, which is every October at Stage Left Studio, and this year will feature 15 artists from all over the country. Profits from this festival go to Friends of Niger, the Young Girls Scholarship Fund. Ms. King has curated Sola Voce, the solo show portion of the Estrogenius Festival at ManhattanTheatreSource, since 2005.

Her innovative Body Language workshop has been a big success since 1998 and she has served as an expert consultant for books and magazine articles, including a major feature in WWD, the magazine.

Ms. King is co-writer of the full-length play, Arturo's Window, which has been presented as a staged reading at several NY theatres, and has been offered a main stage production at the York Theatre in NYC. She teaches writing workshops, and has written a book about her technique called “Writing Your Heart Out.”

She is a contributing writer to Glenn Alterman’s “Creating Your Own Monologue” and the arts paper Soul of the American Actor. She is an advisory board member of ARIA and a member of the Dramatists Guild and National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. In addition to private coaching in acting and writing, she directs solo show artists Frank Blocker, Taren Sterry, Theresa Gambacorta, Cyndi Freeman, Beth Bongar, Karen Thibodeau, Cheryl Smallman, Susan Rankus and River Huston.