“Two quotes I recently read sum up Cindy’s teaching for me. “True leaders create more leaders, not followers”, and “the meaning of life is to give away your gifts”. Cindy Tanas role models these two approaches at her acting studio. As an acting teacher she empowers you to own your talent and your work and become your own teacher eventually, to listen and trust yourself so you can give yourself what you need to do your work. She gives you countless acting tools to use that if you don’t know how (like me when I started here). Cindy gives so much of herself to every acting student, in every acting class, and everyone in her class knows they are privileged to be receiving all that she gives as an acting teacher. So, they step up to bat. They’re able to go to places inside they haven’t been before, because of the safety and holding Cindy creates in class. I became an actor through the process of working in this space with this acting teacher and I am forever grateful for everything Cindy Tanas and her acting studio have given me and her continuing presence in my life as a teacher, guide, and wise one. I am indebted to her for her generosity to me and her support of my desire to fulfill my potential. I’m filled with love and respect for Cindy Tanas and her acting studio. After years of searching in a fog, I finally found the acting teacher who was right for me. Thank you for taking me in to your acting studio Cindy, it changed my life for the better. Thank you thank you thank you.”