Bob Krakower Acting Coach / Acting Classes – Bob Krakower is recognized as one of the top acting teachers and coaches in the business. Sought after by studios, networks, theatre companies and actors, he works out of home bases in New York and Los Angeles, while maintaining a busy schedule of coaching on set for film and television around the country.

“He is a master at understanding people and situations.
That not only makes him great at helping you break down
a scene, it also makes him a great teacher in that he
understands different people have different ways of learning.”

Rooney Mara

Rooney Mara - Academy Award Nominee - Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, Carol Social Network,
Nightmare Alley, Women Talking, Brideshead Revisited, La Cocina, Her

“He has completely changed the way I look at every script,
whether it’s film, TV or theatre. And on top of all that,
he happens to be one of the greatest people you will every meet.”

Aaron Tveit - Tony Award Winner – Moulin Rouge!
Broadway – Next To Normal, Catch Me If You Can, Hairspray
Film/TV - Les Miserables, Graceland, Grease Live!, American Horror Story, Schmigadoon!

Aaron Tveit

“No one in this business cares more about actors than he does.
I am a better actor for having worked with him.
I’m so proud to call him my teacher and my friend.”

Nikki James - Tony Award Winner – Book of Mormon
The Public Theatre - Twelfth Night, Julius Caesar, A Bright Room Called Day
TV – Severance, The Good Wife, Modern Love, Proven Innocent, BrainDead, The Good Fight
Director – The Bite, The Good Fight

Nikki James

“He has a savant-like ability to key into an individual actor’s
process, and to help them recognize their own strengths,
weaknesses, habits, potentials… with results that can
really be transformational. He does it all in a refreshingly
down to earth and non-invasive way.”

Kathleen Chopin - Emmy Award Winner for Casting – Game Change, John Adams
Casting Director - Zoolander, Tower Heist, Recount, World War Z, Bull

Kathleen Chopin

“Bob is simply the best teacher of the craft that I have ever come
across. The detail work that he employs incomparable. The care
that he takes with actors is unmatched. To put simply, I am ten
times a better actor today because of having worked with him.”

Glenn Davis - Artistic Director – Steppenwolf Theatre; Artistic Associate – The Young Vic/London
Partner – Cast Iron Entertainment
Broadway – Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo; National Theatre/London - Downstate
Steppenwolf – King James, The Brother/Sister Plays, The Christians

Glenn Davis

“I insist all my clients that need to work on their craft.
Run not walk to Bob's class.
The results are remarkable.”

Rhonda Price - Partner - The Gersh Agency

Rhonda Price

“This guy is the real deal.”

Chazz Palminteri - Academy Award Nominee – Bullets Over Broadway
A Bronx Tale, Godfather of Harlem, The Usual Suspects, Analyze This

Chazz Palminteri

“This guy loves actors.
And he is a better teacher than anyone working today.
End of story. There isn’t anyone better.”

Michael Lembeck - Emmy Award Winner – Friends
Murphy Brown, One Day At A Time, The Santa Clause, Mad About You, Everybody Loves
Raymond, The In-Laws

Michael Lembeck

Jessica Hecht - Broadway – A View From The Bridge, Fiddler on the Roof, The Price
Friends, Dan In Real Life, Breaking Bad, Person of Interest, Red Oaks, The Sinner

“His ability to make me feel I can fulfill any material
-- be it "A Streetcar Named Desire" or a scene from "Seinfeld"
-- is unparalleled.”

Jessica Hecht

“He has an incredible ability to understand the intention of
the writer and an ease in articulating the most effective way
to bring those words to life. I continue seeking his insight on
all my projects and credit him with much of my success to
this point. He's one of the best in the business.”

Josh Duhamel - Daytime Emmy Award Winner – All My Children
The Thing About Pam , Transformers, Unsolved: The Murders of Tupac & Notorious B.I.G.

Josh Duhamel

“As an acting coach, Bob has proven, time and again, to be an
essential piece to the production puzzle."

Joe Davola - Awesomeness TV, One Tree Hill, Smallville, What I Like About You, All That

Joe Davola

A couple of years ago I was working on a network show. They had asked for an acting coach because they were having a problem getting a performance out of one of their leads. I had my own monitor to watch, their craft services were famously first rate, so … All good, no bad.

Day 1 on set. I get my coffee (excellent!) and my snacks (very good!) and as they start shooting, I go over to my monitor. Take one and cut. The Lead listens as the director says, …”you’re really in love – you need to have more joy in your lover’s presence.”

The Lead’s eyes close …. which is on-set behavior for, “Oh God, I know that, I’m already doing that. I don’t know what else to do. I really want to please you, but clearly at this point, I’m going to be fired.” The Lead’s eyes and mouth finally open and out come the words, ‘I Got It.’

Take two: The Lead don’t got it.

The Executive Producer walks over to me and says, ‘you see what a big problem this is, can you help?’

I nod. It is, after all, what they are paying me to do. Here comes The Lead, and while continuing to drink my coffee (Excellent!) and eat my snacks (so good!), we share a meaningful look. The Lead comes close and we whisper together. Both of us laugh really hard, The Lead nods to me and ten seconds later, goes back to set. Aaaaand action. The Lead plays the scene exactly the same way except..? For what it took us ten seconds to discuss. Aaaaand cut.

They love it! Relief all around – “Moving on!,” says the First Assistant Director. And as everyone starts hustling to set up for the next scene, the execs come over to me, wanting to know what we spent only ten seconds discussing. “Well,” I say, sipping my coffee and eating my snacks, “suffice it say …”

“We tell stories in pictures.”