About The Queens
Studio
Jodie
Lynne McClintock: A Respected Actress
~
An Influential Acting
Coach
The Queens Studio is the exclusive coaching
venue for Jodie Lynne McClintock.
Ms. McClintock is a respected actress who has
appeared in film and television as well as on
Broadway and Off, in London's West End, at
Israel's National Theatre - the Habimah, and at
major regional theatres across the country. She
is also an influential acting coach. Ms.
McClintock strongly believes it is her sacred
responsibility to pass along the knowledge she
has gained as an actress. To quote George
Bernard Shaw (with a twist) “Those who can, do.
Those who can do more, teach.” To that end, she
has taught at the British-American Drama Academy
in both London and Oxford and for Robert Cordier's Paris based Acting International, and
at various universities including
Carnegie-Mellon, Duke, Adelphi,
Pitt, and
Alabama (in the Alabama Shakespeare Festival's
MFA program) as well as the Circle Repertory
School of Theatre, the Fieldston School for the
Performing Arts, the T. Schreiber Studio, and
NYU: Stonestreet Studios, amongst others.
Although she has been privately coaching for the
past quarter century, for the last 14 years, she
has operated The Queens Studio in Sunnyside,
Queens, NYC. Here she not only holds classes in
Shakespeare and audition workshops but has also
directed and rehearsed compendium projects for
theatre and film. Her primary focus at The
Queens Studio has been private acting coaching
sessions with emphasis on general and combined
auditions i.e. monologue selection and polishing
(classical and contemporary); sides (cold and
rehearsed readings for theatre, film, TV, and
new media) and commercial copy; acting the song;
the business of the business and networking/team
building; and role preparation and rehearsal/on
set assistance. A particular area of expertise
is in the preparation of MFA graduate school
auditions (as well as auditions for overseas
programs and undergraduate institutions). Ms.
McClintock has developed a unique process in
advance of the annual MFA grad school audition
season where focus is on monologue selection and
polishing with complementary wardrobe, essay and
interview techniques, capitalizing on each
actor’s strengths whilst minimizing or
eliminating weaknesses in presentation. This
journey culminates in her singular annual Mock
Audition Night and Post Mortem.
She demystifies
the daunting audition process with her
supportive, individualized, holistic,
action-based approach and has set many actors on
their own defined paths to success. Her clients
have appeared on Broadway, in major films and
television, in theatres across the globe, in
national commercials, have founded their own
theatre and production companies, and have
secured places in the top graduate and drama
schools in this country and the UK. She has been
and continues to be very blessed.
In addition to her own acting and
coaching/teaching workshops,
Ms. McClintock also
accepts invitations to direct. Her directorial
credits include: Richard III in conjunction with
the opening of Al Pacino's film Looking for
Richard for Fox Searchlight; a national tour of
Tartuffe for the National Theatre of Performing
Arts, All the World's a Stage (a compendium she
created on Shakespeare's views of a life in the
theatre), Wooing and Wedding (a similar piece at
Studio North), The Heiress at
Theatre Virginia
and A Celtic Midsummer at the Angel Orensanz
Center. Film directorial credits include: Public
Service Announcements for The Million Mom March
and the Brady Center for Gun Control that were
shown on national TV as well as on the mall in
Washington DC and PSA's for the National Center
for Human Rights. At NYU, she created a
curriculum for Shakespeare on Film and directed
shorts of Macbeth and A Midsummer Night's Dream. |