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Vernice Klier

Creator/Artistic Director... Vernice is an International Voice and Acting Coach specializing in Acting in English. Highly regarded for her work in coaching individual actors (as well as ensemble work) on over 35 films in the past 16 years, Vernice’s influence can be traced across the careers of a number of world class actors (see www.vernice-klier.com ) including Juliette Binoche whom she coached for the Academy Award winning role in the ENGLISH PATIENT. Vernice was recently selected as a fellow at SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL LA and has done a practicum with City at Peace Venice, as well as Unusual Suspects LA, both groups who work with urban children and young adults. Vernice attended the University of Oregon and graduated from Goddard College in Vermont. Vernice is the first woman to graduate from Ringling Bros. College of Clowns. A graduate of the Marcel Marceau School in Paris and a private student of Etienne Decroux for many years, Vernice worked in street theatre, taught and directed pieces in mime, directed animated shorts, and wrote lyrics for an album “Between You and Me”. Vernice created “Basic Skills through Art” programs for the Montessori schools in Paris. She learned various acting methods and taught at the Blanche Salant Actor’s Studio in Paris. Vernice also gives workshops in Paris on auditioning/casting skills and lectures on motivation, perception and transformation. Vernice’s work as a writer and photographer appears in many European magazines. As a painter with several exhibitions of her work in the US and France (including the Musée de Luxembourg), she helps clients develop their “voice” by extensive drawing and painting.

Patricia Zraidi

Creator/President...Pat has an extensive background in international business, commerce, and administration. Embracing the inherent entrepreneurial energy of the current world economy, Pat has demonstrated both her loyalty and her desire for change and development throughout her career. Since obtaining her BS in Business Management Summa Cum Laude from Sacred Heart University in Connecticut, Pat has made her mark on business wherever she has roamed. From beginning in a small accounting firm in 1977 Pat moved on to Omega Engineering, an engineering corporation with a major international portfolio. At Omega, Pat moved all the way to the top of the international credit and collections department before moving on. Pat’s move to Paris presented her with exciting new challenges. In Paris, Pat has worked with MESSAGE, a non-profit organization which provides a social and support network for Anglophone parents living in the Paris region, as Treasurer and a senior member of the Board of Directors. She also launched her own business venture, La Parisienne Business Centre, in 2003. A response to the changing business environment which has seen the repeated reshaping of borders and parameters, La Parisienne addresses the abstraction of the current workplace by providing administrative and professional services from afar.