FIRST TAKE TEACHERS
Nancy Berwid
Nancy Berwid is the founder and teacher of First Take. Her teaching and coaching
has helped many aspiring actors break into and prosper in the Los Angeles film and
television market with an unparalleled success rate. Her extensive knowledge and
understanding of the business comes from being raised in a family of Hollywood
entertainers and executives, where she was given the opportunity to see the inner
workings of the film and television industry. Nancy has used this special insight into
the industry to develop a streamlined approach which her students have dubbed as
“The First Take Method” not only to bring the magic to the artistic side of acting, but
to the business side as well.
Originally entering the entertainment business as an actor, she studied at various
schools and training programs. As she watched the scenes, she found that she had
the ability to pinpoint what was missing in the scene and began coaching actors for
free in her living room. From these humble beginnings, it became apparent that she
had a special talent for cultivating beginning actors or bringing out the extraordinary
of an ordinary reading as her students started booking work on major TV and Film
projects. High profile casting directors began to take note of the quality and level of
work shown by her students and well-respected LA agents began referring to her
actors as a “Goldmine of talent.”
The demand for Nancy’s instruction has grown from teaching a small group of
beginning actors for free in her living room to devoted following in four on-going
weekly classes in San Francisco, Los Gatos, and Los Angeles, many of which have
gotten their first SAG jobs or LA agents under her tutelage. She lives with her loving
husband, Adam, First Take Photographer, in Los Gatos.
Nancy Berwid is the founder and teacher of First Take. Her teaching and coaching
has helped many aspiring actors break into and prosper in the Los Angeles film and
television market with an unparalleled success rate. Her extensive knowledge and
understanding of the business comes from being raised in a family of Hollywood
entertainers and executives, where she was given the opportunity to see the inner
workings of the film and television industry. Nancy has used this special insight into
the industry to develop a streamlined approach which her students have dubbed as
“The First Take Method” not only to bring the magic to the artistic side of acting, but
to the business side as well.
Originally entering the entertainment business as an actor, she studied at various
schools and training programs. As she watched the scenes, she found that she had
the ability to pinpoint what was missing in the scene and began coaching actors for
free in her living room. From these humble beginnings, it became apparent that she
had a special talent for cultivating beginning actors or bringing out the extraordinary
of an ordinary reading as her students started booking work on major TV and Film
projects. High profile casting directors began to take note of the quality and level of
work shown by her students and well-respected LA agents began referring to her
actors as a “Goldmine of talent.”
The demand for Nancy’s instruction has grown from teaching a small group of
beginning actors for free in her living room to devoted following in four on-going
weekly classes in San Francisco, Los Gatos, and Los Angeles, many of which have
gotten their first SAG jobs or LA agents under her tutelage. She lives with her loving
husband, Adam, First Take Photographer, in Los Gatos.
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A C T I N G P R O G R A M
the proof is in the booking.