Carol Fox Prescott....
has worked in the professional theater as actress, director and teacher for close to forty years. She was taught acting by such masters as Robert Lewis, Morris Carnovsky, Charles Nelson Reilly, Joshua Shelley and Michael Moriarty. As an actress she played featured and leading roles in New York, National Touring Companies and Regional Theaters throughout the country. Her roles included such varied characters as Tzeitle in "A Fiddler On The Roof" with Zero Mostel and again with Luther Adler, Agnes Nolan in "George M!" with Mickey Rooney, Catherine in "Pippin", directed by Bob Fosse and Guitele in "The Rothschilds",  opposite Hal Linden. She appeared as Kate in Shakespeare's "The Taming Of The Shrew" and Celia in "As You Like It" as well as the title role in Ibsen's "Hedda Gabbler". She was standby for Ellen Burstyn on Broadway in "Sacrilege" and performance consultant for Eve Ensler on her Broadway Show, "The Good Body". She has directed award winning productions of David Mamet's "A Life In The Theater", Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" and Ibsen's "A Doll's House".

Her teaching career began with a nine year tenure at The American Academy of Dramatic Arts and Five years at the T. Schreiber Studio in New York City after which she created her own studio ----
 

Carol Fox Prescott: Acting Classes ----

where she teaches classes in her unique approach to acting, based on breathing, awareness and joy to actors from varied acting backgrounds and all levels of training, co-teaching special workshops in Musical Theater Scene Study, with Broadway musical director Edward Strauss, and Weekend Intensive: Off Balance/On Target, with master Improv teacher Gary Austin. She is featured in Larry Silverberg's The Actor's Guide to Qualified Teachers in New York and chosen as one of four master teachers recommended in ACT:New York 2005, The Actor's Pocket Guide to New York City, both published by Smith & Kraus. More recently she has been selected as one of the featured teachers in Acting Teachers of America: A Vital Tradition edited by Ronald Rand and Luigi Scorcia published by Allworth Press and is a member of the guest faculty at Acting International a Paris based school for Theater and Cinema both in New York and Paris. Carol coaches also privately. Her students appear regularly on stage, film and television.

For the last fourteen years, Carol has been collaborating with other fine instructors under the auspices of Artistic New Directions, an organization dedicated to the ideal of creating space for artists to grow and develop their individual skills, as a permanent member of the faculty of their Summer Retreats in Improvisation and Musical Theater.

 Bringing her work to people beyond the boundaries of theater and film, Carol has taught at The Naropa Institute in Boulder Colorado, Elat Chayyim, Jewish Center for Healing and Renewal in Accord, New York, Shantigar, an Arts and Healing Center in Rowe Massachusetts, The National Association of Gender Diversity Training and The Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She has coached members of The National Speakers Association throughout the country and in her own private Creativity practice, Inspiration Into Expression, in Woodstock, New York, she works with clergy, attorneys, medical doctors, PTA presidents, therapists and others, breaking through blocks and barriers to creative freedom. For those struggling with various degrees of performance anxiety and stage fright she offers reliable, easily learned techniques to gain confidence and expertise.