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With over 30 years of experience in the entertainment industry, Adam understands how to navigate the profession for all levels of talent. Get a jump on your career and creative practice today.
Tools for the Career Actor
Study the Craft of Acting with Veteran Actor, Writer, Producer and Director Adam Paul
(How I Met Your Mother, Hollywood Residential, and more)
With over 30 years of experience in front of and behind the camera, Adam Paul offers a unique perspective on the process, practice and profession of acting.
About Adam Paul
"No matter what else you do as an actor - tell a good story"

As a director and writer, Adam Paul has worked on multiple seasons of CBS's Emmy Award winning "The Inspectors”, created and starred in the Starz comedy "Hollywood Residential," and co-wrote, produced and directed "Full Nelson," a wrestling comedy web series with over 5 million views.
As an actor, Paul is best known for playing Mitch, ‘The Naked Man’ on the CBS comedy “How I Met Your Mother.” He also appears in numerous TV programs, films, and commercials, including “The Informant!“ “One for the Money” and “Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron.”
As a Webby Award winning commercial director and writer, Paul has shot spots for VW, MasterCard, Lenovo, Caterpillar and many more.
Adam was classically trained as an actor at the American Conservatory Theater, where he earned his Masters Degree in 1992. He is an adjunct professor of acting at the University Nevada Las Vegas in the Film and Theatre Departments.
Adam's background in theater, improvisation, comedy and the classics provide a broad foundation that informs his filmmaking: Tell a good story.


- Adam's PhilosophyLuck Favors the Prepared - And Preparation Requires Disciplined, Focused Work.
The creative training at which we work so hard to develop a technique is really the foundation to the rest of our careers. Foundations need maintenance and continual care to ensure they're stable, strong and reliable.
The career we spend the majority of our time pursuing often feels completely unrelated to the creative work we're striving for. Hustling, networking, assembling marketing materials, and generally building our 'brand' or 'business' hardly seems like the art that inspired us in the first place.
But these career efforts need to be integrated with our creative skillsets in order for them to be truly effective. They need to be an effortless extension of the craft we love.
I've developed an overarching framework for creative professionals I call StoryTeamGo intended to align the seemingly endless and byzantine avenues of a professional creative career. This informs all of my teaching, but is especially useful in the real world. Check out the basics at the link above.
If you're looking to start or accelerate your career as a performer in the entertainment industry, I think you'll get a lot from what I teach.
I look forward to working with you!

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FAQs
Who Is This For?
My classes, private coaching sessions and career consultation sessions are for actors who are serious about pursuing a career on camera. In order to study with me currently, I require clients to have a minimum of some measure of training and/or some level of professional credits.
(I will offer a beginning acting course in the near future for adults (18+) who want to understand what acting is all about.)
Once per year, I offer The Career Actor Masterclass for trained actors just starting their professional careers or working actors looking to improve their experience in the professional arena. This class focuses on career nuts and bolts.
What Will We Do In Class?
Private Sessions are tailored to individual actors' needs and goals.
Audition technique classes will involve self-taping assignments (including the basics of lighting and framing), live session drills, cold reading techniques and quick analysis techniques. Industry guests will join some classes pending availability.
Script Analysis classes provide in-depth tools to break a script down into it's component parts for the benefit of the actor. It involves close-reading skills as well as performance skills to put these tools into practice.
The Two Week Voice Over Intensive is 4 two-hour classes over two weeks during which students will learn the essential tools to perform and audition the major categories of voice over work: Commercials, Animation, Video Games and Audiobook Narration. Students will also receive guidance on equipment essentials and setting up a home studio and best practices for pay-to-play voice over audition sites.
What Does Career Consultation Entail?
Career Consultation starts with a free 20 minute call to determine your needs, goals and ability. From there, we’ll determine the best approach to building, starting and maintaining your career, or, if you’re already a working actor, how to best level up, find new representation, create a project of your own, etc.
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How Much?
Class and Private Session Rates (subject to change) are:
- Group Classes - $75/class (for 6 class packages)
- Private Coaching - $120/hr
- Audition Coaching - $35-$105
- Career Consultation - $120/hr
Payment plans are available with non-refundable depositWhat Do I Need to Bring to Class?
- Current classes are offered remotely, via Zoom. Students will need a stable internet connection, a quiet space in which to perform, and, of course, a web camera connected to a computer.
- Voice Over classes require an external microphone (USB connections are acceptable) and recording software of some kind (Garage Band, Audacity, Twisted Wave, etc.)
- Your brain.
- Something to write with and on.
- A printer from which to print audition sides and scripts.
Where Is Class Held?
Current classes and coaching sessions are held over Zoom.
In person sessions will be offered as soon as possible.
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