Marcia Bennett has been a professional actress for 39 years with memberships in American and Canadian Actor’s Equity, as well as ACTRA and SAG.  Marcia has a BA (Drama) from University of Evansville, IN and an MA (Theatre) from University of Missouri in Columbia.  She began coaching actors for auditions and scene study 15 years ago, and has taught at Armstrong for seven years.  Marcia’s ability to work well with actors as young as 6 and up to 60 stems from her own life experience, having begun acting at the age of 9.  Her training, love of language, innate curiosity and appreciation of the writer’s intention ensure that no actor leaves a session confused about the script.  Her style of teaching is passionate and caring.  Marcia has a proven ability to help actors dig deep for truth and bring their own personal stamp of creativity and authenticity to auditions and performances.  She’s worked as a dramaturge for playwrights and been an advisor to screenwriters.  She served as on-set coach for Radio Free Roscoe, The Zack Files, Red Sneakers, Snow, Kit Kittredge: American Girl, and My Louisiana Sky.  On stage, Marcia has appeared in leading roles across Canada.  This past summer she played “Nat” in Rabbit Hole in the Toronto Fringe.  Her performance as “Julia”, the title role in Madre (Aluna Theatre at Theatre Passe Muraille) earned her a 2008 Dora Nomination.  Marcia’s film and television work is extensive. Most recently:  Breakout Kings (A & E) “The Bag Man”, Warehouse 13 (SyFy) “Trials”, the controversial film, The Woman (Lucky McKee) which premiered at Sundance earlier this year and Things Are A Changin’ (Jason Jeffrey).  Marcia played the recurring role of the feisty “Rose” in Happy Town as well as the popular “May Silverstone” in the first season of award winning Slings and Arrows.  Marcia takes great pleasure in working with young actors, helping them to succeed by merging their instinctive abilities with informed choices, so that they feel confident when auditioning.  She has an excellent imagination and a keen eye for the truth.