F. Emmanuelle Chaulet

F. Emmanuelle Chaulet is an international film actress, director, acting coach and author. She currently works as an artists coach in France, sharing her time between Paris, La Rochelle and Hendaye. Previously, she was a Lecturer in Theatre at the University of Southern Maine, USA where she worked for nearly 20 years. Emmanuelle is also the founder and director of Starlight Acting Institute, which offers individual coaching and group training in holistic acting, empowering actors to reach their full success with confidence and ease. She has developed and applied a unique technique for actors called ENERGIZE, outlined in her book A BALANCING ACT, and which incorporates Energy Awareness and Inner Character work for creativity development, character development and emotional re-balancing. ENERGIZE breaks grounds with the concept of 'character vibration' and Inner Characters or sub-personalities. Acclaimed by American academic theatre journals (THEATRE TOPICS and NEW THE ENGLAND THEATRE JOURNAL), A BALANCING ACT is a tremendous resource for the contemporary actor. Emmanuelle Chaulet studied acting and the Michael Chekhov technique with Robert Cordier in Paris, France and with Mala Powers of the International Chekhov Institute USA. A Fulbright Scholar at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute in New York, she is a theatre director, teacher and actress with over 20 years of experience in theatre and film both in France and the U.S. Lead film roles include "Boyfriend and Girlfriends" by French New Wave master Eric Rohmer, and "All the Vermeers in New York" by Jon Jost, 1991 winner of the best American independent film award, as well as "SUNDOWNING," by Jim Cole, winner of the Cinequest Emerging Mavericks/ New Vision award. She is a certified Energy Awareness Counselor, REIKI and RYSE® III Practitioner (CRPL3) from the Polarity Realization Institute of Massachusetts and Maine. She is also a trained Voice Dialogue Facilitator. She co-founded ANPACT, the Association for the New Paradigm in Acting and Creative Techniques, and has been included in the prestigious "Who's Who in America" since 2007. She is a graduate of ESCP Europe (in cultural management), which was recently named the leading management school in the world by the Financial Times 2010. More information at http://www.emmanuellechaulet.com and http://www.coachingdacteurs.com