Corey Parker
Corey Parker is a Master Teacher and a professional acting coach who has worked for 24 years in Los Angeles, New York, Atlanta and Nashville. He has coached on set for Marvel, and coaches actors on Zoom in London, Sydney, Barcelona, Dublin and Singapore. His actors have won Tony Awards, SAG Awards and Emmy Awards. He has taught at Duke University, Rhodes College and the University of Memphis. His teen actors have been accepted to NYU - Tisch, Yale, RADA and USC, among others. Corey’s work as an actor has been acknowledged by the New York Times, Time Magazine and the Los Angeles Times. He is a lifetime member of the Actors Studio and the Ensemble Studio Theater. A SAG actor since 1979 and a teacher since 2000, Corey draws from his many years in front of the camera as well as his considerable time spent onstage in New York and Los Angeles; Corey’s work also draws from his decades of training from some of the greatest teachers in American acting. Corey knows there are many ways to approach acting and that acting does adhere to basic natural laws. Each actor’s own nature provides them with a truly unique instrument. Working with each actor’s authentic instrument is at the core of Corey’s work.
For Corey, teaching the actor means empowering the actor with tools, and developing a practice for making creative choices, and problem solving - in auditions and on the set. Corey’s lifetime worth of professional experience allows him to support and bring confidence to actors at all stages of their work.
Evidence of Corey’s coaching can be seen on Broadway, on TV, and on film. Most recently Corey has coached on projects with directors Adil El Arbi, Bilall Fallah, and Academy Award winner Roland Joffe. He has taught acting workshops with casting director Seth Caskey, casting director Risa Bramon Garcia and casting director Brett Goldstein.
Corey's clients can be seen on:
Sana Amanat
Executive Producer of Marvel Studio’s “Ms. Marvel” and “Marvel Rising: Secret Warriors.”
“Corey is an excellent coach and mentor, guiding his students with patience and encouragement. He excels at working with actors new to the craft and training them to get camera-ready quickly. He tunes his coaching to the specificity of the student, giving guidance based on their individual needs versus a generic playbook. From dealing with dialogue memorization to interacting with directors, Corey understands how to prepare his students and clients with the skills they need to become confident and talented performers.”
Some of Corey's clients...
Credits
As a coach, Corey has worked with Tony Award winner Annaleigh Ashford, Screen Actors Guild Award winner Patrick Dempsey, Golden Globe and Emmy nominee Sherilyn Fenn, Aaron Tveit, MC Lyte, director Victoria Mahoney, Gabriel Mann, Naomi Campbell, Jennifer Missoni, model Tyson Beckford, Rachel Roberts, Scoot McNairy, Rah Digga, Tarek Bishara, Max Burkholder,and Pokey LaFarge.
Corey has coached actors on...
Ms. Marvel (Disney+)
Happy Face (Paramount +)
BPositive (CBS)
Shining Vale (Starz)
The Undoing (HBO)
Magnum P.I. (CBS)
American Crime Story (FX)
Sun Records (CMT)
Bluff City Law (NBC)
S.W.A.T (CBS)
Law & Order (NBC)
Masters of Sex (Showtime)
Chicago Med (NBC)
Blue Bloods (CBS)
Wim Wenders’ Don’t Come Knockin’
Gideon Raff’s Now and Then (AppleTV+)
The English (Amazon Prime Video)
Our Kind of People (Fox)
This Is Us (NBC)
Welcome to Chippendales (HULU)
Treason (Netflix)
2004 Broadway production of Raisin in the Sun
2014 Broadway production You Can't Take it With You
2015 Broadway production of Sylvia
2016 Cherry Lane Theater Pass Over
2023 Broadway Production Sweeney Todd
Corey has coached speakers at TedGLOBAL.
CoreY has taught acting at…
BGB Studio in Los Angeles 2014 -2024
HB Studio in New York
Susan Batson's Black Nexxus Studio -
NYC & Hollywood
Lesly Kahn's Studio in Hollywood
Michael Howard Studios in New York
Ruskin Studios in Los Angeles
New Collective LA in Los Angeles
Operafest in Martha's Vineyard
Indie Memphis Youth Film Program - Memphis
Indie Memphis Shoot ‘N Splice - Memphis
Rhodes College 2008- 2014
Duke University 2023
St. Mary's School- Memphis
Christian Brothers University
Playhouse on the Square
IndieActing Studio
High School of the Visual Performing
Arts - Los Angeles
University of Memphis 2016, 2022, 2023
Crosstown Arts, Memphis
Speaker/Producer of ”Documentaries on Acting” Series, Malco’s Studio in The Square Theater (2019)
His teen students have been accepted at
the following schools…
What Corey's peers are saying...
Susan Batson, acting coach to Nicole Kidman, Zoe Kravitz, O’Shea Jackson Jr., Juliette Binoche, Chris Rock, Zac Ephron, Common, Liv Tyler and Oprah Winfrey. Author of “Truth”.
Ivana Chubbuck, acting coach to Charlize Theron, Brad Pitt, Jim Carrey, Halle Berry, Jessica Biel, Travis Fimmel. Author of best selling "Power of the Actor."
Casting Director: “Masters of Sex,” “Seal Team,” “The Affair,” “CSI: New York,” “The Joy Luck Club,” “Wall Street,” “Fatal Attraction,” “Born on the Fourth of July,” “Speed,” “Flirting With Disaster.” Co Founder of BGB Studio, Los Angeles.