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Melissa Bruder(I)

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Melissa Bruder
Melissa is a dialogue/dialect coach based in Sydney, Australia, where she has worked in the film and TV industry for over 20 years. She teaches professional-level acting (Practical Aesthetics technique.) She is a founding member of New York's Atlantic Theater Company/Atlantic Acting School, a native New Yorker, graduate of NYU and the Stella Adler Conservatory, and co-author of A Practical Handbook for the Actor.
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    La Brea (2021)
    La Brea
    5.8
    TV Series
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    Clickbait (2021)
    Clickbait
    7.2
    TV Mini Series
    • Additional Crew
    The Straits (2012)
    The Straits
    7.1
    TV Mini Series
    • Additional Crew
    Sam Trammell and Aden Young in Reckoning (2019)
    Reckoning
    6.6
    TV Mini Series
    • Additional Crew

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    • William McInnes, Olivia Swann, Tuuli Narkle, Todd Lasance, Sean Sagar, and Mavournee Hazel in NCIS: Sydney (2023)
      NCIS: Sydney
      6.2
      TV Series
      • dialect & dialogue coach
      • dialect and dialogue coach
      • 2023
    • La Brea (2021)
      La Brea
      5.8
      TV Series
      • dialect & acting coach
      • 2021–2023
    • Clickbait (2021)
      Clickbait
      7.2
      TV Mini Series
      • dialect and dialogue coach
      • 2021
    • Sam Trammell and Aden Young in Reckoning (2019)
      Reckoning
      6.6
      TV Mini Series
      • dialogue coach
      • 2019–2020
    • The Unlisted (2019)
      The Unlisted
      6.6
      TV Series
      • vocal coach
      • 2019
    • Peter Allen: Not the Boy Next Door (2015)
      Peter Allen: Not the Boy Next Door
      7.9
      TV Mini Series
      • dialect coach
      • 2015
    • Russell Crowe in The Water Diviner (2014)
      The Water Diviner
      7.0
      • dialogue coach (uncredited)
      • 2014
    • Camp (2013)
      Camp
      7.2
      TV Series
      • dialect coach
      • 2013
    • The Straits (2012)
      The Straits
      7.1
      TV Mini Series
      • dramaturg
      • 2012
    • My Place (2009)
      My Place
      7.6
      TV Series
      • dramaturg
      • 2009–2011
    • Killer Elite (2011)
      Killer Elite
      6.4
      • dialect coach (uncredited)
      • 2011
    • Rachel Hurd-Wood, Caitlin Stasey, Lincoln Lewis, Phoebe Tonkin, Deniz Akdeniz, Ashleigh Cummings, and Chris Pang in Tomorrow, When the War Began (2010)
      Tomorrow, When the War Began
      6.1
      • dramaturg
      • 2010

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    • Don Ameche and Joe Mantegna in Things Change (1988)
      Things Change
      7.0
      • Manicurist
      • 1988

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      [Book] A Practical Handbook for the Actor. By Melissa Bruder, Lee Michael Cohn, Madeleine Olnek, Nathaniel Pollack, Robert Previto, and Scott Zigler. New York: Vintage Books, 1986.

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      Co-author of the book, A Practical Handbook for the Actor, which describes an acting technique developed by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Mamet and Oscar-nominated actor William H. Macy.

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