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 ANTOINETTE
(TONI) ATTELL
BIO
Toni Attell
is as an Emmy nominated actress. Her credits includes a variety
of work in television and movies as well as experience working
internationally with some of the greatest masters of the
performance arts field, including, Jean Louis Barroult. Marcel
Marceau and Mamako Yoneyama for mime, Carlos Mazzonne for
Comedia del Arte and Bill Ball, David Dukes, Paul Shenar, David
Alexander, Nina Foch and Harvey Lembeck for improvisation,
comedy and acting. She is a member of The Academy of Arts and
Sciences and is on the “Blue Ribbon Panel” that votes on the
Emmys, is a board member of The San Fernando Valley
International Film Festival and has recently finished her book,
“Just Kidding-Stand-Up Comedy For Kids of All Ages” and
is working on a new one “The Male Disclaimer”
Toni Attell
performed with the American Conservatory Theater in San
Francisco, Theater West in Los Angeles and toured over 350
colleges in the United States as a mime-comedienne teaching
master classes in movement and acting. She has created and
performed a number of one-woman shows, started the
Comedy Store Players in Los Angeles and has
instructed and choreographed the clowns at Ringling Bros and
Barnum & Bailey Circus and has choreographed a
variety of music videos including Kim Carnes’ Betty Davis
Eyes.
 Ms. Attell helped to create a summer
program for actors and writers at the Los Angeles Theater Center
and recently toured Japan and China performing her new one woman
shows. She started three stand-up comedy groups comprised of
children called “The Comedy Pups.” that was featured on National
Television and has taught acting for twenty years to children,
teens, adults and seniors.
As a
comedienne and mime she was the opening act for Jay Leno, Steve
Martin and Robin Williams. In 2002-2003 she hosted her own radio
show on KRLA talk radio called “The Romantic Intuitive.” and is
currently acting, lecturing and performing and is writing a
column for The Tolucan Times and La Brea Living
Magazine called “The Chatterbox-The Biz”
for the last three years.
Antoinette
(Toni) Attell was an adjunct professor at the USC School of
Cinema teaching for five years teaching “ The Acting
Experience for Writers” and “Acting for Directors”
and is now teaching at UCLA Extension where she has taught and
created the following classes: “Comedy Boot Camp” “Hypnosis
and Intuition for the Actor in Acting” “ Acting
Fundamentals ” and is now teaching graduate and
undergraduate students “ Acting for Non-Actors” and “Acting
for Commercials” at Chapman College. Attell, has written 2
books and is working on a third one with Carl Gottlieb which is
a handbook for Directors - directing Actors. Ms. Attell is a
pioneer in taking acting relaxation exercises to a deeper level
with the use of different enhancement modalities. These
techniques have improved her students’ abilities in presentation
and memorization skills.
Toni is Certified in:
• Hypnosis
• Time Line
• Parts Therapy
• ERT (Emotional Release)
• Past Life Regression
• Intuitive
• Vertigo Induction
• Parts Therapy
• Rapid Eye Movement
• Body Readings
• Psychometry (Reading of Pictures and Objects)
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