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Patricia Stark and Risa Tanania

Teaches at Actors Connection New York

Patricia Stark brings her extensive experience hosting and anchoring over 25 different television shows to her Media Training and Public Speaking coaching. A communications expert, her New York based training company specializes in media, public speaking, & both on-air & business interview skills. Specializing in clients that include on-air guest experts, Television Hosts, News Anchors, Performers, CEO's Financial Experts, Authors, Medical Professionals, Sales Executives and many of the 80% of American's who fear public speaking. Patricia also just spent weeks coaching a team of hosts from TLC to successfully master their live coverage of the Royal Wedding. With over 20 years of first hand experience Patricia is one of the only media trainers in the country who has worked in front of the camera in every form of media including: Broadcast & Cable Television, Public Broadcasting, Dramatic Television, Educational Reality Television, Live News, over 2000 Fortune 500 Corporate Training Videos, Television Commercials, Web, Radio, Ground and Satellite Media Tours, Direct Response, On-Location, and In Studio & Live Call-in programming. Patricia is certified in Eclectic Cognitive Behavior Therapy to further help clients overcome the fear of public speaking and address performance anxieties. Risa Tanania is a casting director and development producer for all things reality. She got her start at the University of Iowa with a Masters in Inter-Media Studies and a focus on feminist documentary and left soon after for television production in New York. She has cast (hosts, actors and striking every day people) and developed shows for major networks such as FOX, Bravo, MTV, Lifetime and STYLE. She believes reality TV is not just a guilty pleasure, but rather a space for great stories to be told. Through her new development company, The House That Casting Built, Risa hopes to achieve her proudest moment; when television (her first love), accurately reflects its true audience...with all cultures, colors and communities equally represented. 

Until then, she will be working tirelessly to get there.

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