Meet Director, Head Acting Teacher & Private Coach
GAYLA GOEHL
Gayla Goehl is a sought-after private acting coach, master acting teacher, and on-set coach to working young Hollywood actors, as well as an accomplished actress, writer, and director.
She began teaching while still attending University, holds a B.A. in Theater Arts: emphasis on teaching with a Minor in Music from Western Illinois University. While acting in New York, she started private coaching and taught adult classes at Theater Row Theater and 4 West Theatre Ensemble. After moving to Los Angeles, she served as Lead Teacher at CenterStage LA, where she taught Advanced Scene Study, Script Analysis, Audition Preparation, Cold Reading, Improvisation, and Relaxation & Concentration Skills. She was a film studies teacher at Stella Adler Acting Conservatory where she also developed and taught their first beginning and advanced classes in Auditioning for Pilot Season and Commercial Techniques. On staff Additionally, teaching film acting at Theater of the Arts: Hollywood, she established and taught their first Commercial Acting programs. And taught at Hollywood Jumpstart and workshops throughout the city.
Goehl joined Gary Spatz’s “The Playground”, A Young Actor’s Conservatory for Film & TV in 2005. She now serves as Director of the Conservatory. She developed and teaches the Graduate Programs: Young Actors Master Classes: Varsity and Junior Varsity, Young Adults Program and Adult Programs as well as Head Acting Teacher of the 2nd Year Professional Classes. She was an on-set coach for seventy-seven days on the film Judy Moody and the Not Bummer Summer.
Gayla started acting professionally at age fourteen and is a proud member of SAG-AFTRA and Actors’ Equity Association (AEA) as well as AFM-80 Musicians Union. She starred in the critically acclaimed, festival-winning feature film @URFrenz, earning a Method Fest Acting Award nomination. Her credits span numerous feature films, television series including House M.D., You, and Charmed, sixty national commercials, two hundred voice-over campaigns, industrial films, and as well as television hosting as the first on-air face and host of the TV Guide Channel; which she hosted from live events like the CMA’s, AMA’s to 50 Million people as well as pilot host for Music News and The Insider. She also produced segments and interviewed hundreds of celebrities for those programs. She has performed in more than 158 theatrical productions, creating lead roles in Off-Broadway, Chicago, and Los Angeles world premieres as well as regional theater, and was a jingle singer for CBS’s The Early Show.
Her extensive experience as a working actor, private audition coach, master teacher, and on-set film coach informs her specialized approach to teaching on-camera techniques to young actors. Notable private coaching and teaching clients include Owen Teague, Sadie Sandler, Sunny Sandler, Jen Landon, Talia Jackson, Armani Jackson, Taegen Burns, Ever Anderson, Shannon Brown, Logan Shroyer, Kiersey Clemons, Bobby Campo, Charlie Shotwell, Kiersey Clemons, Arya Parvathi, Ashley Argota, Jorge Diaz, Greer Grammer, Joel Courtney, Dove Cameron, Lilla Crawford, Stephanie Scott, India Eisley, Kay Panabaker, Ryan Newman, and many others.
Her clients and students have appeared in films such as Zack Synder’s Justice League, Peter Pan & Wendy, Black Widow, Captain Fantastic, Kingdom of The Planet of the Apes, It, It 2, Into the Woods, The Last Witch Hunter, The Kissing Booth series, Super 8, Paranormal Activity series, The Final Destination, Wreck-It Ralph, Spring Breakers, High School Musical, and many more, as well as television series including This Is Us, Empire, Swagger Jane the Virgin, The Fosters, Grey’s Anatomy, Modern Family, Lucifer, This Is Us, Liv & Maddie, The Descendants, and hundreds of national commercials.