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Dennis
- Rate ₹7,504
- Response 2h
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Students20
Number of students accompanied by Dennis since their arrival at Superprof
Number of students accompanied by Dennis since their arrival at Superprof

₹7,504/hr
1st class free
- Acting
- Improvisational theatre
- Musical theatre
Professional director, producer, actor, voice artist, improv expert, screenwriter, playwright, choreographer with 50+ years of experience, teaches Acting, Voice Acting, Improvisation, Film Acting.
- Acting
- Improvisational theatre
- Musical theatre
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Dennis is a respected tutor in our community. He is highly recommended for his commitment and the quality of his lessons. An excellent choice to progress with confidence.
About Dennis
A professional director, producer, actor, writer, and musician, Mr. Johnson has headed entertainment production companies as executive director and artistic director. A member of SAG/AFTRA and BMI, he has directed, acted, and served as dance and fight choreographer for plays by Shakespeare, Chekhov, Webster, and Feydeau as well as many original and contemporary plays and musicals, including The Duchess of Malfi, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Rags to Riches, The Wedding, Romeo and Juliet, Two Slatterns and a King, The Dragon, Guys and Dolls, Mr. Toad Rides Again, The Doctor and the Devils, U.S.A., You Can’t Take It With You, Love and Soft Music, HMS Pinafore, The Pied Piper, The Elephant Man, The Bluebeard, and Three In a Bath. Mr. Johnson studied dance with Martha Graham, Jose Limon, Carlton Johnson, Paul Draper, William Bales and Ruth Beckford. He studied judo with Professor William Montero Sr., and Senshin Budo karate with Jeremiah Tobin. He has directed, taught, or performed for the Old Globe Theatre, the Folger Theatre, American Conservatory Theatre, the USO, California Actors Theatre, Mt. Hope Estate, William Shakespeare Road Company, LA County Parks, Junior League, Sterling Renaissance Festival, Pennsylvania Renaissance Faire, JP Nightingale, Hollywood Bowl, Franklin Institute, McCabes Guitar Shop, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Knott’s Berry Farm, Frontier Village, Yosemite National Park, and for a decade produced exclusive interactive entertainment for Hersheypark and Christmas Candy Lane. Mr. Johnson has created unique, interactive improvisation performances for many fine resorts and companies including Skytop Lodge, Hotel Hershey, Sagamore, Wheatland, Ahwahnee Hotel, Webster Bank, Morgan Stanley, Merck, Saks Fifth Avenue, Massanutten, Longwood Gardens, Coolfont, Canaan Valley, Wintergreen Resort, Black Point Inn, American House Hotel, York Harbor Inn, Belle Grove Mansion, Wayside Inn, Buck Hotel, Bryce Mountain, Park City Center, Timberline Lodge, and SMG. A songwriter at BMI, his tunes have been recorded by Joe Walsh, Melba Moore, Gene McDaniels, Merry Clayton, Nancy Wilson, and the Floaters. A produced playwright, published poet, and prolific screenwriter, Mr. Johnson has written, produced and directed dozens of film, video, and audio projects, and has performed as voice and on-camera talent for national and regional companies including the Boston Red Sox, NFL Films, League of Legends (original Gangplank, Taric, Heimerdinger), NESN, Fleer, Cox Broadcasting, Crayola, Black & Decker, Harley Davidson, Mercedes, Kelly Tire, AAA, LL Bean, Goodwill, Farmers Trust, Lockheed, Hershey, and Prevention Magazine. He directed and co-wrote The Perfect Woman, which was a nominee for NH Film of the Year in 2014. He co-created and has presented TACT interpersonal communication workshops for persons in law enforcement, medicine, hospitality, sales, recreation, education, and for corporate executives. He has narrated and provided character voices for acclaimed documentary films including Shadows Fall North, The People’s Forest, Front Wards Back Wards, and Celia Thaxter’s Island Garden, which he also edited. Mr. Johnson has directed over a thousand acclaimed educational performances, improvisations, and workshops for elementary schools, secondary schools, and universities in VA, CA, PA, NJ, NY, MD, CT, ME, NH, including James Madison University, San Jose State University, Shenandoah University, Millersville University, and SUNY. He continues to teach improvisation, on-camera, voice and stage acting, coach public speakers, conduct performance workshops, and develop entertainments. His most cherished accomplishment is having raised four children as a single father.
About the class
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I plan your lessons based on your experience, skill, knowledge, technique, and goals.
For instance, my work with you on depending on your level of experience and the audition situation, can be broad or intensive, and can include any or all of the following:
Pre-audition Preparation - How to prepare to make an impact; getting the best from your headshots and resume; choosing your audition piece (if applicable); specifying what you want to achieve; how to rehearse your audition; cultivating the proper attitude; handling nervousness and stage fright; developing consistency; familiarizing yourself with the director and/or casting director; how to use info about the producing company and their products; the importance of what you do the night before the audition.
Presentation - Arriving at the audition; how to conduct yourself; entering and exiting an audition space; reading the room; how to relate to the auditioners; what to say and not to say; what to wear; what to bring; your interaction with other auditionees.
Post audition - Critical analysis; self-assessment; objectivity vs. subjectivity; digesting the experience as a whole, and any feedback; making corrections; emotional distancing; anticipating and preparing for callbacks; moving on.
Effective use and synthesis of the 4 actor tools - Voice, Body, Face, and Mind.
Improv Acting - We'll cover the elements of successful improvisation. We'll use exercises and games to develop your expression, imagination, spontaneity, creativity, solo work, and work with an ensemble. We'll create scenes, characters, and scenarios, and develop them into performance pieces. We'll explore improv as actor training, rehearsal technique, scene study, character development, and professional entertainment, including interactive theatre, immersive theatre, historical improvised theatre. We'll see how to use improvisation in film, television, and onstage. We'll study verbal improvisation, physical improvisation, improvised pantomime, and the improvised use of props.
Script Analysis - Keywords; meaning; beats; character intent; meter; pronunciation; emphasis; author intent; exploring the entire work that includes your script.
Character - How to analyze your character; identifying objectives; playing objectives; the only three things we know about a character; choosing a style; choosing a voice; the suitability of choosing costume pieces and props; how your character moves overall; how your character walks; what emotions does your character exhibit; how to use animal characters; working from outside in vs from inside out.
Face Acting - Understanding your face; constructive use of the degrees and elements of the 7 universal emotional facial expressions; what your neutral face says to others; different applications for auditions for live gigs, on camera gigs, mic-only gigs, comedy, drama, multi-character auditions, and monologues.
Gesture - The wide variety of uses of your fingers, hands, arms, torso, head; identifying opportunities for gesture; creating a gesture; choreographing a gesture; the timing of gesture; co-ordination of gesture and dialogue; use and avoidance of gesture repetition; applying artistic discretion to gesture.
Voice - Pitch; loudness; speed; rhythm; tone; prosody; variables and variations; character elements; use of dramatic and comedic pauses; emotion; enunciation; emphasis; pace; intervals; nasal continuents; u-glide; musicality; and more.
The Art of Telling the Story - The specific aspects of "tell the story," which any performance or audition should do.
The Art of Physicalization - How to physicalize your audition, take it beyond the multifarious elements of physicality, and make it come to life.
The Art of Realization - Shepherding your audition from the ideal to the practical, from the alpha to the omega.
And much more!
Every session of mine is tailored-made for each participant, so I'll know much better how to proceed specifically for you once I know a bit about you and we have had the opportunity to meet and work together.
I look forward to hearing from you, and helping you!
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Perfect! So much knowledge and experience.
Loved the first class. Definitely seeing him again.Perfect! Dennis is great to work with. He has a ton of experience and it shows. His feedback and suggestions are meaningful and considerate of the audience, setting, and story. Highly recommend!
Perfect! Dennis is an amazing teacher! You definitely get value with his instruction.
Perfect! Dennis is a great mentor when it comes to brushing up on your acting skills. He is not afraid to challenge you when he sees potential and will take your skill set from basic to advanced very quickly if you put in the proper time. I am grateful I met him through this platform and looking forward to developing a longterm relationship with him!
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Dennis has years of quality experience and it shows. His attention to detail in the use of the voice is precise. Many months of lessons I have had with him have definitely helped me grow as a voice artist and as an actor. 10/10 Can recommend!
Dennis has been a very kind and knowledgeable voice-acting teacher. I have learned many techniques that have improved my voice-over skills over the time I have worked with Dennis, and I highly recommend working with him
I had the pleasure of taking lessons from Dennis, and I must say, he is an incredibly knowledgeable and experienced instructor. Each session, he brings new monologues for practice, keeping the lessons fresh and challenging. Dennis has a keen eye for detail, especially when it comes to blocking, and he doesn't miss an opportunity to make precise corrections. He even worked on refining my accent, which was a huge help. Whether you're just starting out or have some experience, Dennis meets you where you are and helps you grow. I highly recommend him—he's truly a fantastic teacher!
Dennis has been a voice acting teacher to my teenage son for the past two years, and I could not recommend him enough! Dennis is extremely talented and provides instruction on many different aspects of voice acting. He is patient and kind and provides feedback in a positive way that builds skills and confidence. Dennis is passionate about teaching and encourages my son to take risks and try new things. My son loves working with Dennis and looks forward to his lesson each week.
I met Dennis in 2017. At that time, I was in an Improv class which he directed. It was fast-paced fun. Dennis is a great teacher. I have been studying voiceover with him since then. He’s teaching me the details of voiceover work, which separates a good voiceover actor from a mediocre one.
Dennis and I have worked together for over a year now. He has taught me so much and continues to provide great insight and help. The improvement I have made due to his direction has been paramount. He is gentle in nature but direct in his approach, which I greatly appreciate. He is so knowledgeable. 10/10 would recommend!
Dennis is kind, patient, personable, trustworthy, knowledgable and upholds a very high standard. Any student under his care is very fortunate to be able to work with him.
Dennis is a great, excellent and an extremely professional teacher. I studied voice acting with him almost 7 months from now. I found his classes on the Internet and we met online. He helped me improved a lot on my English speaking, reading skills and diction. I enjoy having classes with him. It's so much fun! I got to learn and play all kinds of different characters in class. Although I'm not there becoming a professional voice actor yet, he really gradually changed me from a Chinese accent speaker into an American accent speaker! It's just like slowly shaping a zero-basis student into a voice acting talent! I myself am a teacher as well. Most of the skills and techniques that I learnt from him, I got to pass on to my students. You don't know how lucky I am and you don't know how strong and great the power of inheritance is. I am extremely lucky and honored that I met him in my life, he was the best thing that ever happened to me! I will continue taking voice acting lessons with him. But my question is to you, are you ready to become a professional voice actor? If you are, don't think twice, choose Dennis to be your voice acting coach at once, because he will give you a great gift/wealth of knowledge that you can never be taken away! So, what are you still waiting for? Sign up on his online session at Superprof right now! He'll give you a magnificent voice acting journey that you'll never forget!
Taking lessons with Dennis has been a game-changer! As an attorney, my work performance has dramatically improved since working with him. The skills I've gained--quick thinking, effective communication, and creative solutions--have been invaluable in my practice and daily life. Dennis creates a supportive and engaging environment that fosters personal growth and confidence. If you're looking to enhance your skills in a unique and enjoyable way, Dennis is your go-to!
Dennis is a very knowledgeable and patient teacher that I've had the pleasure of working with for a long time now. He's been able to work with me through the basics fundamentals and the more advanced concepts, and has helped walk me through getting my demo reel and getting into the industry. He's a fantastic teacher, and I feel very lucky to be working with him.
Dennis is an excellent teacher with a wide breath of experience. He takes the time to understand your goals and helps to guide you on learning the skills to get you to your destination. Before I started working with Dennis, I was clueless about the industry but after working with Dennis, I learned a lot from his experience and feel much more prepared. Although there was a lot for me to learn and I struggled at some parts, Dennis was very patient and gave great advice to help me understand where I was confused. You will not regret learning from Dennis.
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- 5h: ₹35,311
- 10h: ₹66,208
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