What Her Students Say

“Cindy Tanas Actors Studio just doesn’t share lessons with you on how to become a better actor. Learning the craft of acting is just one benefit of what participating in the acting classes at Cindy’s studio offers. Cindy creates a safe space within her studio walls and invites you to join her on a creative journey. Due to the non-judgemental environment Cindy Tanas cultivates, I learned how to open up and be completely vulnerable. Being in this shared safe place allowed me to confront, reveal, and explore aspects of myself that I suppressed or just did not know were there within me. Cindy Tanas is committed to developing and nurturing actors. She invests in every acting student that walks through her doors. Cindy taps into the truth that connects us, and wants to speak through us, but has been blocked or censored along our way. She has not given up or skipped steps with me when I had an acting block. Instead she took the time to work with me, helped me identify where I was at, and enabled me to move to the next step. I’m not going to lie, its hard work, but well worth it. When you work with Cindy Tanas, her commitment to truth, continual care, and boundless passion come shining through. Cindy talks with you, not at you. Rather than telling you to achieve a result, she invites you to share yourself with the class. In her acting class, I have learned about opening my heart up to a stranger and finding the humanity in everyday moments. I have learned how to listen, really listen. Not only to my surroundings and others, but to myself and my thoughts, feelings, and impulses. I discovered the confidence that here and now I am enough. I know why people are so passionate about the arts now, I know why people can’t stop once they have the acting bug. There is an ineffable magic that underlies the process of acting. The creative process that Cindy Tanas Actors Studio offers brings that magic.”

“I don’t know that I’ll ever find a teacher who will impact me as much as Cindy Tanas has. Cindy and her acting studio have inspired so much growth in me that I can’t quite wrap my head around it. She teaches from a place of such understanding, love, empathy, and drive. She truly wants all of her acting students to succeed, not so they will provide a great performance, but so that they will be healing and expressing themselves fully (which conveniently provides for a great performance). The environment she creates in the acting studio is one of such safety, so students are encouraged to be fully and utterly themselves. My ego takes a back seat and my soul feels at home enough to come out and play. I have matured astronomically at Cindy’s actor’s studio, both emotionally, intellectually, kinaesthetically, and in other ways I couldn’t put into words. The more I learn acting here, the more I find I don’t know, which is an exciting and daunting fact. I look forward to coming back to the studio whenever possible, much like coming back home! There is no better place for an artist, or in fact for a human being.”

“The Actors Instrument class has been an incredible experience for me. Every in person acting class has been an opportunity to explore who I am, face it, and embrace it. I know how to “get out of my head” and “into my body”. I’ve learned to listen with my whole body…and I now apply it to my everyday life. Thank you Cindy.”

“Online acting teacher Cindy Tanas has an uncanny ability to make an online acting class feel as though you are right there with her in the classroom. She knows how to make you feel safe so you can be vulnerable. I’ve attended her classes at the studio and I feel I am gaining just as much of her wisdom, generosity and unparalleled teaching style from her online acting classes. Cindy gives, really gives. I was skeptical about taking an online acting class, but with Cindy’s approach it just works differently from other classes I’ve tried online. Thank you Cindy, for your commitment to quality and your dedication to integrity.”

“Cindy Tanas has been a constant source of inspiration to me both in my acting/filmmaking career as well as in my personal and other business life in the over 10-years. I have been lucky enough to train with her. Her teaching and training has been so profoundly grounded and at the same time expanding, exciting and enlightening. I have grown in confidence both as an actor and as a human being. I have taken on bigger roles and gone to places that I never knew I could go or reach — willing to take the risks knowing I had the tools, skills and craft. Cindy has guided me along this path in both acting classes and private coaching…and I have been the better for it. She is priceless, one-of-a-kind acting teacher & human. She brings the goods every single time and with compassion, love and zero ego. I highly recommend her and her Toronto Studio to anybody looking to be better actors, or people.”

“The most outstanding thing about Cindy's method is her immaculate preparation…Each aspect of her teaching revolves around her leadership in setting an example to her students…and she demands the same from the people she mentors…even beyond the attention to detail to each and every aspect of the craft of acting…Cindy is instinctive and intuitive…she is sensitive to individual character traits…and like any good coach knows how to caress and cajole…to challenge and demand…all in the name of pulling to the surface every ounce of a person's abilities…everyone who works with her leaves her classes feeling like they ran a marathon…exhausted yet exhilarated as the creative endorphins continue to flow long after the lights in the studio have dimmed…My experience has been transformative…and while exaggeration may be naturally occurring in the DNA of the cadaver known as the "tale"…there is no one that I have known who can interpret a tale and an actor's ability to deliver it better than Cindy Tanas…”