Gratitude
"Dov is one of my favorite coaches to work with. His work is playful, fearless, masculine and feminine and everything in between. His awareness that there are millions of possibilities for a character makes the search for the right choice deep, challenging, and always fun."
— Zoë Kravitz
"I have worked with Dov on countless auditions over the 4 years I’ve known him. In the past 3 years he has become the only audition coach I go to. He’s extremely gifted at freeing me up and getting me thinking about working on the material for the fun and excitement of finding it. He helps me let go of the unhelpful thinking about how to mold myself into something I’m not to get the job. I always come to him stressed out saying things like, “I’m totally wrong for this” or “this isn’t in my wheelhouse.” And I always change my mind by the end of our session. By making me forget about GETTING the job and instead focus on the fun of finding my own personal way into the work, we craft something together that gives me confidence. Through conscientious personal discussion, he helps me stop trying to play the character, and instead find the person inside me who is that character. So that I am just being, instead of acting. I leave armed with my own unique take on it, that I know no one else is walking in with because it’s ME. Dov is special in this regard. I believe he has the power to help people, not just with their auditions but with their confidence in themselves as actors and artists in general. He’s the best!”
— Sarah Steele
“Working with Dov has deepened my connection and belief in myself as an artist and sparked new curiosity in me about my life. His approach of embodied acting has enriched my experience of creating characters, my sense of empathy and connection to those characters and also to the actors I’m working with”
— Ryan McDonald
“Dov has a unique and indispensable gift to create a space where he attends and attunes with genuine care and attention. He’s the epitome of patience and kindness. In my work with him I continue to find my hard edges, softening, my heart, opening and my vulnerability, empowering.
In our collaboration, play is revealed as innate and learning to create from a place of peace has been profoundly healing. The borders between artistry and humanity, have started to disappear and despite his insistence on my slowing down (awareness see!) I can’t wait to see where we go next.”
— Gopal Divan
“I love Dov’s approach to acting—guiding performers to connect with and harness their authenticity and intuition to uncover the character from the inside out. Dov’s emotional intelligence invites a lot of depth into the practice and his grounding in therapeutic work fosters trust and safety. Working with Dov has not only been instructive for me as an artist, but genuinely nurturing for me as person.”
— A.J. Bond
"Dov is devoted to deepening performances beyond good or bad. He is about the process. His understanding of human psychology and spirituality and his ability to apply that to his craft is something quite unique and unparalleled to anyone else of his generation."
— Aaron Himelstein