Eric has taught acting, improvisation, collaboration, presentation, and communication skills to hundreds of students and clients.

Eric has worked with individual artists, served as faculty at prestigious acting studios, managed training programs, led workshops for Fortune 500 companies and brands, advised student organizations, and developed one-of-a-kind intensives and programs at renowned academic institutions.

He’s coached a wide range of actors, including well-known film and television stars, series regulars, Broadway veterans, graduate and undergrad students, and teens. He’s consulted and coached athletes, musicians, speakers, and public figures in interview skills, multi-media presentation techniques, and public speaking.

Eric's work as a teacher and trainer extends beyond the performing arts - he taught researchers, faculty, and graduate students science communication skills at UC San Diego anfd studied science communication at the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science in Stony Brook, NY.

For over a decade in Los Angeles, Eric taught scene study classes, improv, and offered private acting, audition, on-set, interview and public speaking coaching to a wide range of clients across numerous industries, ranging from entertainment to higher education and research. Eric was a member of the teaching faculty at Steppenwolf Classes West, taught at the annual Steppenwolf West Summer Intensive, and was a certified instructor and faculty member at Warner Loughlin Studios. Additionally, he was a faculty member at iO West (the L.A. branch of Chicago’s Improv Olympic Theater) from 2005 until the theatre’s closing in 2018, and was the Training Center Director from 2005-2009.

Eric taught undergraduate acting as a Guest Artist (and worked as a Guest Director) at the University of California at San Diego; he’s taught as an adjunct faculty member at The Art of Acting Studio conservatory program, developed and led the scene study classes at AK Studios, taught comedy for television and film at The Australian Film & Television Academy, and guest taught workshops at The Magnet (NYC), The PIT (Chapel Hill, NC), California State University's Summer Arts program (Fresno & Monterey, CA), and led workshops at numerous theaters, comedy and improv festivals and conferences in the US and Canada.

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