Acting - Drama Therapy Workshop
Scene and Monologue Study * Learn to Act While
Developing Poise, Self-confidence and Mastery Over Stage Fright

225 West End Avenue #67
New York, NY 10023
(Serving New York - New Jersey - Connecticut)

Acting - Drama Therapy Center of NY

(Charles di Cagno [center] is seen here with Dr. Manuel Zane and his wife.)

THE INSTRUCTOR is producer/writer/director/actor Charles di Cagno, whose original one-act, and full length plays have been performed off-Broadway for the past 15 years. He has also produced and appeared in major Benefits for Covenant House and The New York Times Neediest Case Fund.

Over the course of the past 25 years, he has studied with some of the most influential and well known drama teachers in the field, including Stella Adler (Marlon Brando's and Robert DeNiro's teacher), William Hickey and Michael Beckett, among others.

He has a B.A. in Speech, an M.S. from Pace University and is a CTM and Mentor with Toastmasters International (where he has won several 1st Place Area comedy speech contests), as well as a graduate of the Dale Carnegie School for Public Speaking.

He is the Center supervisor and group leader for Public Speaking and Social Anxiety in Manhattan, and director of Social Phobia and Public Speaking Anxiety at The White Plains Hospital Phobia Clinic. He trained directly under Dr. Manuel Zane (Your Phobia), founder of the world renowned Phobia Clinic at White Plains Hospital and considered one of the leading experts in phobia therapy.