Marc Durso, the FRECouncil Acting Coach of the Year 2005, is a graduate of the Burt Reynolds Institute, where he studied with Tony Award winners and Broadway stars Julie Harris, Leonard Frye, Tom Troupe, Alan Arkin, Jerry Herman and Charles Nelson Reilly. Marc Durso, Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers Associate and a member of Actors' Equity Association, has assisted Broadway directors Alan Arkin, Tony Stevens, Tony Award winner Ann Reinking and Tony Award winner Charles Nelson Reilly. He has also directed/associate directed NY and LA premieres starring Tony Award winners Uta Hagen and Fritz Weaver as well as for legendary Master Teacher, Sanford Meisner and written for a CBS animated series, CADILLACS & DINOSAURS, with head writer, Steven de Souza, writer of the blockbuster films, DIE HARD and BEVERLY HILLS COP.
Marc assisted Impresario James A. Doolittle in presenting the Baryshnikov, Kirov, Joffrey, American Ballet Theatre and Radio City ROCKETTES dance companies at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles developing budgets for multi-million dollar productions. He has coached actors for Film/TV in Los Angeles, Miami, Denver, Chicago, Orlando and taught Acting and Directing as guest faculty at The Musical Theatre Project, the Ford Festival of One Act Plays-Heidelberg, Germany, where he received the Award for Excellence, and E.T.A.'s International Thespian Festival held at the University of Nebraska. He assisted the Cayman National Cultural Foundation on the country's first live televised theatrical production.
He coaches actors for Film and TV in the South Florida Entertainment Market where his was the Rehearsal Coach for the Miami Telenovela OCEAN AVENUE, on-location acting coach for Sandals/Beaches Resorts campaigns in the Turks & Caicos Islands