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Grant Mathis B.S. Psychology
Grant Mathis Quick Facts
Main Areas: Human potential expands with effective communication and positive social interaction. A child can effortlessly build these critical skills early and develop their own confident style through conscious performance experience!Best Sellers: Practicing Presence is Fun Children's Improv.
Career Focus: "Social Improvisation" workshops cultivate a child's confidence with fun choices. In this age of the camera, relationships everywhere - from home to internet social media sites, even to network television - is reinforced through a positive performance experience. The technique was developed and proven with young professional actors seeking greater con?dance, life experience and stage presence. Good experience sets your child up to win, and nothing succeeds like success.
Affiliation: SAG, AFTRA
Grant Mathis - Performer, Developer, Producer, Trainer
As an actor, Grant has appeared on a litany of Network Television acronyms, including ER, JAG, VIP, ATF and others. He has also appeared in numerous feature films, and with expertise in dance and stunts, prominently in the underground hit Being John Malkovich. You can see Grant in network national commercials with Xerox, Revlon, Taco Bell, Heineken Beer, etc. Grant also develops and produces workshops and independent feature films.
With over six years experience coaching children, teens, adults and “cross-over” talent such as models, singers and athletes, Grant has developed very simple technique for getting new actors up to audition speed quickly. Some students will not act professionally, yet every introduction is an audition, every conversation is an improv.
Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Grant Mathis
How we represent ourselves is Theatre - always a performer and an audience. Surely Shakespeare considered this when proclaiming “all the world’s a stage.” Shakespeare's immortal words are even more true with the emergence of social media and the internet. All the internet's a stage and effective presentation is no accident. Social media (chats, blogs, video) are now central to expanding our understanding, careers and friendships.
Theater is a shared experience. Conscious, authentic presence, engaged in-the-moment with self and others. Improv theater elevates a “now” experience for all to share. Social skill develops relationships. Better consciousness, better quality of living.
Acting is interacting; relating; listening, speaking and responding. This training is all about being present, authentic and communicating effectively with, or without a camera present.
Getting Started With Grant Mathis
Social Improvisation for kids. Guided improv workshops quickly build confident self-expression and independent thinking in children. A supportive place for children to present native social skills (like speaking, listening and responding) and learn new possibilities. Participation is the only requirement for success. Performers need an audience and parents share the defining moments just being there to watch. It's that easy.
Acting/improv exercises for children to explore:
- Playful interaction and authentic presentation.
- In-the-moment relating helps at home, classrooms and camera studios.
- Rewarding parent/child partnerships can include film and TV opportunities... or not.
Does your child want to work professionally? The steps are the same - how we interact with others is the same self-presentation in the audition room, on a sound stage or out there in life!
An ideal improv/acting workshop is like any other good class, it practices presence. Being there and listening, truthful to the moment. Piercing the present is an uber skill that unlocks your child’s unseen potential through greater awareness, embracing the now and critical thinking. The more your child does something, the better they get at it.
Host a workshop. If you have an interested group of six or more, I'll bring the workshop to you. Does your child's school allow fundraisers? I'm a LAUSD certified teacher.
