Students interact directly with NYAW Founder and workshop leader, Jessiline Berry, who has been a stage actor and filmmaker for over 10 years. Students benefit from her experience on both sides of the camera and proscenium by learning how to build the character from the inside out, and how to collaborate with all the key personnel that bring any production to fruition...Directors, Producers, Casting Directors, and other Cast members.

"Jessiline Berry is a great Director. Throughout the audition process and the actual shooting she made me feel at ease and I trusted her. She is a real Actor's Director. She has a gift for bringing out the best performances in her actors. She is very focused. I would highly recommend her acting workshop"

Melanie McCarthy, Actor