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Elisa Eliot is an acting coach and industry coach in Santa Monica, Los Angeles and Palo Alto in the San Francisco Bay Area of California. I offer private acting lessons, group acting classes, industry consultation and on-set coaching, to beginners, professionals, children and adults.

My studio in Los Angeles is easily accessible from Santa Monica, Hollywood, Beverly Hills, Malibu, Orange County, Pacific Palisades, Brentwood, Glendale, Culver City and Manhattan Beach.

My studio in the San Francisco Bay Area is easily accessible from Palo Alto, Los Altos, Menlo Park, Atherton, Mountain View, Santa Clara, Cupertino, San Mateo and Redwood City.


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