KARISSA BARBER
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  • Home
  • About
    • Bio
    • Accolades
  • Projects
    • Acting
      • Acting Resume
      • Acting Gallery
    • Directing
    • Intimacy Choreography
    • Playwright
      • MASTERWORK by Karissa Barber
      • Undesirable Island (in progress)
      • E120
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At this time, Karissa is not teaching live classes or taking personal acting coaching. Please check back at a later date for updates.

Acting Coaching

for children and adults

After years of performing on the stage and on the screen, Karissa Barber's practical experience takes learning out of the theoretical and into real life. Karissa offers private acting coaching for children through adults at her private home studio in south Lakeland, Florida. She also offers group classes, public speaking coaching and audition prep for incoming high school & college students applying for performing arts schools.
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Private Acting Coaching


What do I do with my hands?

Whether public speaking or acting for stage and film, one-on-one training helps to identify and change harmful habits, releasing you to feel confident, relaxed and equipped.

Acting games, exercises and techniques when paired with Karissa's years of experience as an emcee, acting teacher and actress give you freedom to perform in any situation.
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Private Acting Lesson Cost: In person $60 for 60 minutes/ Online $45 for 60 minutes
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Audition Prep


Monologue memorized and rehearsed.
​Now what?

From what to do in the hallway until the door closes on the way out, learn to stand out in auditions with more than just your monologue. 

Karissa has spend hours waiting to audition and can assist you to conquer jitters and better represent the hard work you've both put into their acting.
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Audition Prep Cost: $60 for 1 lesson/$100 for 2 lessons

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Group Classes


Do you learn better in groups?

Group classes offering valuable experience at an affordable price while building an acting community and practical tools for the theatre and screen.

Let Karissa use her years of experience acting in Central Florida to reinforce your natural talents, making you truly sparkle on and off stage.
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Group Class: 1 class | 5 weeks | $100

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Meet Karissa Barber

From singing opera at the Straz Center to being an emceeing around the US to performing in musical theatre classics to staring in British infomercials, Karissa's diverse background and MFA in directing & performance pedagogy makes her perfectly poised to train the next generation of actors. 

Her background in Montessori education gives her a unique focus on creating the right environment for students to reach their full potential. And she believes that environment is in the capable hands of the talented teachers within our public and private school theatre programs, with extra support from her acting coaching, audition prep and group classes.

Read more of Karissa's bio here.

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  • Home
  • About
    • Bio
    • Accolades
  • Projects
    • Acting
      • Acting Resume
      • Acting Gallery
    • Directing
    • Intimacy Choreography
    • Playwright
      • MASTERWORK by Karissa Barber
      • Undesirable Island (in progress)
      • E120