Every Sunday, NEPA Creative turns the spotlight on some awesome creatives. This week, we have Elizabeth and Jahmeel Powers of Powers Performance Coaching!
Meet Elizabeth and Jahmeel Powers. Together, they train others in the art of acting with their co-founded performance coaching business, Powers Performance Coaching, as well as being adjunct professors of Theatre at King’s College in Wilkes-Barre.
Powers Performance Coaching offers Improvisational and Acting workshops to companies, schools and organizations to encourage team building, leadership, presentational, and communication skills. They also offer consultation services for acting/stage combat/voice/dialects for local productions and individual clients.
At Powers Performance Coaching, Elizabeth and Jahmeel value truth above all else. They believe that actors are “truth-tellers” — that the craft of acting asks us to be the best version of ourselves and exemplify how to live truthfully in all circumstances. Using methodology from a variety of acting practitioners of both screen and stage, they wish to help their audiences grow in their personal life journeys through empathy, listening, and connecting with others.
Elizabeth Guarnieri Powers, a Pittston native, is an international performer whose professional acting career in both theatre and film has taken her all over the East Coast including NYC, Baltimore, Shawnee on the Delaware, Maine, Virginia Beach, Boston, the Finger Lakes and Scotland. Elizabeth received her Master of Fine Arts in Acting from Regent University. She has performed in over 40 independent short films and TV spots. Some of her favorite stage roles include Medea (Medea), The Servant of Two Masters (Beatrice), She Loves Me (Ms. Ritter) Taming of the Shrew (Kate), Rhinoceros (Botard), The Seagull (Masha), Dracula (Margaret), and Hamlet (Ophelia).
Jahmeel Powers, originally hailing from Michigan, is a graduate of the Master of Fine Arts in Acting Program at Regent University. He’s performed in professional productions across the country in places such as: Maine, Michigan, Virginia, New York, and Scotland. Some of his favorite roles include: The Servant of Two Masters (Trufflaldino), Oklahoma! (Ali Hakim), Much Ado About Nothing (Dogberry), Medea (Creon), and Of Mice and Men (Crooks). Notable film credit includes Sterilized which won Jahmeel “Best Actor” awards at the 2019 Seven Cities Film Showcase, the VPA Filmmakers’ Showcase, and the 2018 Regent Film Showcase.
Internationally, Elizabeth and Jahmeel performed in the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018 in The Servant of Two Masters. Locally, they have performed in PATAsphere’s original production of Just a Penny (Scranton 2018 Fringe, F.M. Kirby Center), Gaslight Theatre’s production of Playroom: Home for the Holidays, Act Out’s production of Of Mice and Men, and Intrepidus Theatre Lab’s production of Medea.
Learn more about them by visiting www.powersperformancecoaching.weebly.com or following the Powers Performance Coaching Facebook page.
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