Gil Zabarsky

Successful stage and screen audition and performance coaching for 100+ clients, including Camila Mendes, Danny Ramirez, Rachel Sennott, Coral Peña, Sinclair Daniel, Francesca Reale, Sea Shimooka, Dimitri Abold, Lizzy Cappuccino, Chelsea Frei, Katerina Eichenberger, Julia Terranova, Stephen Gray, Abigail Arader, Connor Gray Hillman, Veronica Taylor, Ashley Chiu, and Clara Pierson. Coaching has resulted in successful auditions, callbacks, and, in some cases, bookings for The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (Lionsgate Films), Wednesday (Netflix), An Enemy of The People (Broadway), Let's Call Her Patty (Lincoln Center), Severance (Apple TV+), Avatar: The Last Airbender (Netflix), Girl Haunts Boy (HBO), Your Own Personal Exegesis (Lincoln Center), School Spirits (Paramount Plus), Lifted (A24), New Amsterdam (NBC), Steal Away (Realm), Woman of the Hour (Netflix), I'm Revolting (Atlantic Theater Company), Gossip Girl (HBO Max), The Stockholm Syndrome (Lifetime), and The 99ers (Netflix), to name a few.

Member in good standing of the Writer's Guild of America. Extensive writing experience in three areas: screenwriting, copywriting, and magazine article writing. Screenwriting: Wrote two feature scripts now owned by Disney (HUGH MANN & CARVED), sold two scripts to Fox Searchlight (TENURED & HUGH MANN), developed a pilot for Netflix Canada (MY COUSIN GENIE), wrote two Mars Candy commercial campaigns (SCIENCE FAIR SANTA for M&Ms and BEAR GIRL for Snickers), and wrote three commissioned pilots (SEEING RED for Burn Later Productions, IT'S A HIT! for The Orchard, and UNTITLED INTERNSHIP PILOT for Next Vanilla). Work has premiered at Tribeca Film Festival twice and on Hulu, and been featured on ABC, Netflix, Amazon Prime, Funny or Die, United Airlines flights, Freeform, and FX. Copywriting: Super Bowl ad writer's room for Sugar23, Washington D.C.'s Bridge District Ad Campaign for Revolver New York, Brand Realization for Red Reel, Actor's Reels from Scratch. Magazine article writing: "Space as a Muse" and "Where the Land Leads" for Austin Home.

Taught several screenwriting and on-screen performance based courses, with an emphasis on integrating performance beyond narrative storytelling in order to showcase a performer's abilities: Legit Audition Technique, Create Your Own Material (writing, filming, and editing a short film from scratch over the course of a semester), Advanced Script to Screen (fundamentals of screenwriting and video editing), and tasked with writing and directing two year-long student productions per year, an hour-long pilot and a feature-length film. Screenwriting courses emphasized carrying an idea from its initial stages(figuring out what you want to say and why, crafting a differentiated concept, thesis statement, and logline), through the crafting of the script (feature, short, and pilot forms, utilizing the 8 -sequence narrative structure, understanding the hero's journey and the core fundamentals of effective storytelling), and effectively completing your script (understanding your market, defining your goals, classifying your script effectively, polishing off your work to make it market-ready).

Provided customer service and support, educated customers about Apple's products and services, and facilitated interactions on the sales floor (at the time, referred to as the Red Zone). Extensive ongoing training required to solidify knowledge of all of Apple's products and services, and to effectively collaborate with the Family Room (Genius Bar) to facilitate customer hand-offs and find next-step solutions.