Private Acting Coach

Derek K. Niegemann

Coaching - Works privately with young, beginning to intermediate level stage actors. Improv strategies designed to help the novice actor perform more effectively together on-stage. Improv Italian-style, with elements of Commedia Dell’ Arte.

Background - Actor / Director / Acting Instructor. Holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Elizabethan Literature and Theatre, and Master of Arts in Theatre Arts Management. European studies through Mountview Theatre School, London, England and University of Munich, Munich Germany. Regional theatre work for more than 40 years with over half of that as an Acting Coach and Teacher. A Professional Child Actor from 1966-74 with stage, film and television work in the 1970s and 1980s. 1977-87 Set Dresser and Production Assistant with MGM Grunwald Studios, Munich, Germany. 1983-88 Artistic Director for the Augsburg Community Theatre, an English speaking theatre in Augsburg, Germany. 1996-2000 Resident Actor, Director and Props Master with Repertory theatres in both Ohio and California.