Iris Klein teaches, coaches and directs in Los Angeles and holds workshops in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Iris Klein grew up in New Jersey, one suburb away from Manhattan. At five years old she watched her cousin, Jerome Robbins’ masterful, “West Side Story,” from the fifth row. At nine years old she heard Mànitas De Plata play flamenco guitar at Carnegie Hall which opened her ears to the music of the world. At twelve, Iris witnessed Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton read Shakespeare, poetry, and verse to each other in a ‘by invitation only,’ intimate theatre space. These shows are where she fell in love with the theatre.

She believes exposure to the arts at an early age is essential to expand our understanding of the human condition and open our hearts to passion and compassion. She attended New College of California in San Francisco and returned to NYC where she resided for the next ten years. The decade was filled with music on Bleeker Street, broadway, off-broadway, and just off-off. Iris worked on the NYC stages and on films in Manhattan where she worked with and watched the likes of Coppola, Scorsese, Lumet, and Benton create and direct. A few of those years were spent traveling the world with the Australian Broadcasting Commission, filming documentaries up and down the Amazon River and through a vast part of the world.

Iris moved to Los Angeles in 1980 to act and performed for playwright Eugene Ionesco and his wife to packed theatres under the direction of Paul Verdier in, Ionesco’s Tales, at Stages Theatre. She was directed by John Cassavetes in his play, A Woman of Mystery, starring Gena Rowlands, Woody Harrelson and Carol Kane at the Court Theatre. Cassavetes‘ artistic fearlessness continues to inspire and shape her. TV and film credits followed. Iris directed “Conversations in Black and White,” by Pamela Galvin in off broadway’s New York City Theatre. The Kleins’ co-wrote and co-directed with indie festival winner for ‘best direction,’ indie feature; “Three Janes,” starring Gail O’Grady, Erika Alexander, Stephanie Romanov, Michael Murphy, John Glover, and Louis Ferreira and with Brian White, Boris Kojoe, Billy Brown and Rickie Lee Jones.. The independent film shot in Los Angeles, Chicago and Las Vegas. The feature won the Diamond Halo Award for Best Direction at the Angel City Film Festival in Hollywood and was honored at the RiverRun International Film Festival in North Carolina.

 Iris Klein’s teachers include: Janet Alhanti (mother), Sanford Meisner, Stella Adler, John Cassavettes, Robert X. Modica and Joan Darling.

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Klein is available for private coaching, training, audition preparation, script breakdown, self tape auditions and Zoom.

Philosophy:

Acting Is An Art Form Of  Self Discovery.  Through  Each Other,  We Discover  Ourselves.  When We Know What Affects Us, The Character Can Live In Us.
Every Action Creates A Reaction Which Determines The Point Of View.  Acting Is What We Do About How We Feel.  Acting Is Doing.  Acting is Living Truthfully Under Imaginary Circumstances.  Through A Process Of Exercises That Teaches The Actor To Trust Their Instincts And Impulses, To Be Present and In The Moment, The Actor Learns To Focus And To  Listen And  Respond Truthfully, Developing A Heightened Awareness .  Utilizing Ones Experience,   Imagination,  Research And Intelligence, The Truth Is Revealed.

 

Clients include:                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 Aaron Cash / Aloe Blacc / Audrey Marie Anderson / Ashley Liao / Bianca Lawson / Billy Brown / Boris Kojoe / Brian White / Bridget Moynahan / Britt Lower / Charisma Carpenter / Chloe East / David McGinnis / Emma Roberts / Erika Alexander / Felicia Day / Gethin Anthony / Jackie Tohn / Jamie Alexander / Josh Brolin / Lisa Lampanelli / Lucy Lawless / MIchael Woods / Will Simmons / Monica Lacy / Morena Baccarin / Mia Maestro / Shannyn Sossaman / Theodore Melfi (Director) / Tiffany Haddish / Tommy Lee (Musician) / Vanessa Hudgens

 

Some current and classic shows:  

American Horror Story; Arrow; Blue Bloods; Buffy the Vampire Slayer; Criminal Minds;  CSI-New Orleans/NY/LA;  Grey’s Anatomy;   How to get away with Murder;   Mad Dogs;   NCIS/ New Orleans  Olive Kitteridge;   Scandal;     Queen Sugar;  Scream Queens;    Santa Clarita Diet;  Severance; Sleepy Hollow;    The Magicians;  The Strain;  The Unit;   Underground; Walking Dead…

 

Best of Yelp 2016,  2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021. 2022
Testimonials:    https://www.yelp.com/biz/iris-klein-los-angeles-2

 Best Director:   TRICKS (3 Janes) Angel Film Festival/ Los Angeles  Nomination:  TRICKS (3 Janes) River Run Film Festival/ North Carolina

Iris also paints and sculpts.  IrisKleinArt.com

Interview:  http://voyagela.com/interview/meet-iris-klein-iris-klein-koreatown/

 

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