Instructor:
Mari Lyn Henry

MARI LYN HENRY, partner, Henry Downey Talent Management LLC, has guided thousands of actors to successful careers in film, TV and theatre for over 40 years.

Upon leaving her position as Director of Casting, East Coast for ABC/NY, which she held for over thirteen years, she launched an image and career coaching business.

Her workshops on on-camera techniques, script analysis, auditioning, and impression management have been very successful in cities and universities across the country as well as in Toronto, London, Oxford and Sydney. Seminars about “The Business of the Business” are based on the best-selling book she co-authored with Lynne Rogers---How To Be A Working Actor. (www.howtobeaworkingactor.com)

For 25 years, this 'bible of the biz' has received praise from industry professionals, educators and celebrities. Currently its fifth edition, greatly enlarged, expanded and revised, boasts a foreward by award-winning actor Joe Mantegna.

Mari Lyn has also written the foreword to Katherine Mayfield's book Smart Actors, Foolish Choices and is featured in Judith Searle's Getting The Part: Thirty-three Professional Casting Directors Tell You How to Get Work in Theater, Films, Commercials, and TV. She has been quoted often in trade publications and wrote a bi-monthly column for Back Stage.

She teaches audition skills for the camera in the conservatory progam at the prestigious Michael Howard Studios in New York City. As a guest faculty member at Circle in the Square Theatre School she advises actors-in-training about career preparation and audition techniques.

She has been the industry showcase consultant for the University of Florida, Florida State University, the Hartt School in Connecticut and the New World School of the Arts/Miami.

She is currently the Vice President of Programs for the League of Professional Theatre Women (www.theatrewomen.org). Having earned her B.A. in Speech and Drama at San Jose State University, she also holds an M.A. in Theatre from the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C.

She believes with Mark Twain that “training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond and a cauliflower is a cabbage with some education.”