Voice · Acting · Audition · Performance Coaching
Private coaching in Long Beach, California, online worldwide, and through detailed video performance reviews—for singers and actors who want stronger technique, clearer choices, and rapid, practical progress.
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Choose How We Work
Long Beach, California
Work face to face in Long Beach with immediate feedback, live accompaniment, detailed adjustments, and the focused energy of being in the same room.
Ideal for vocal development, acting through song, audition preparation, repertoire work, pianistic collaboration, and performers who respond best to an in-person process.
Flexible · No Commute
Train from home with flexible scheduling and no driving. Online sessions are focused, personal, and especially useful for audition deadlines, ongoing technique, song interpretation, and performers outside Southern California.
You receive the same individualized coaching, adapted thoughtfully for the camera, microphone, room, and technology you already have.
Submit · Review · Apply
Submit a rehearsal, self-tape, song, monologue, or complete performance and receive extensive, time-stamped feedback you can revisit as you practice.
I examine vocal choices, acting, storytelling, physical life, musical details, camera communication, and the moments most likely to create rapid improvement.
Rapid Results
Rapid progress does not come from throwing more exercises at a performer. It comes from accurate diagnosis, a clear priority, and tools that create an audible or visible change you can repeat on your own.
We separate the central issue from the symptoms—whether it is breath coordination, registration, pitch, tension, unclear intention, unfocused storytelling, or audition strategy.
You receive a manageable adjustment that can change the work now, not a mountain of abstract information you may understand six months from now.
Technique is immediately connected to the lyric, text, character, music, audience, and circumstances so the improvement survives outside the exercise.
We define what success feels and sounds like, then give you a process for recreating it independently in rehearsal, auditions, and performance.
Auditions and Artistic Goals
Prescreens, repertoire and monologue selection, acting through song, interview preparation, audition cuts, slates, self-tapes, and a plan for presenting the most truthful and compelling version of you.
Preparation for competitive arts programs such as Orange County School of the Arts (OCSA), including material choice, vocal and acting fundamentals, confidence, communication, and age-appropriate storytelling.
Audition coaching for professional productions, community and regional theatre, callbacks, cold reads, self-tapes, musical cuts, monologues, and the practical demands of walking into the room prepared.
Breath, registration, resonance, pitch, range, healthy belt and mix, text analysis, objectives, relationships, listening, physical life, emotional specificity, confidence, and acting through song.
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About David
David Jayden Anthony is a musical theatre writer, director, educator, pianist, arranger, and voice and acting coach. His perspective has been shaped by more than two decades of theatrical work, Berklee training, graduate study, and years spent helping performers connect vocal technique with truthful storytelling.
Because he works across music, text, performance, direction, and technology, a session can address more than a single symptom. The goal is not to make every artist work the same way. It is to find the combination of technique, imagination, analysis, and communication that unlocks the person in front of him.
Frequently Asked Questions
In-person coaching is offered in Long Beach, California. The new student interest form is the best way to ask about current availability, location details, scheduling, and the type of session that fits your goals.
Yes. Online coaching is available to singers and actors beyond Long Beach and throughout the United States and internationally where scheduling allows. It offers flexible time slots, no commute, and the same individualized focus.
You submit a video of a song, monologue, self-tape, audition cut, rehearsal, or performance. David studies the work and provides extensive, specific feedback—often organized around moments in the recording—so you can apply the notes on your own schedule and revisit them while practicing.
Yes. Coaching can address material selection, singing and acting fundamentals, audition cuts, confidence, presentation, interviews, and the specific challenge of communicating authentically at a young age. Admission decisions always belong to the school; coaching is designed to help the student present prepared, truthful work.
Yes. College audition coaching may include prescreens, song and monologue selection, acting through song, self-tapes, slates, interviews, audition cuts, and planning. Beginning early allows time to build technique and select material rather than simply polishing at the last minute.
Yes. Students range from beginners learning to match pitch to working professionals preparing auditions and performances. Coaching is adjusted to the experience, material, deadline, and professional goals of the individual performer.
It can be any of the three—and often all three. Musical theatre requires vocal coordination, musical understanding, text analysis, acting, and communication to work together. Commercial singers and actors who do not sing are also welcome; the session follows the performer’s needs.
It means identifying the highest-impact issue, choosing a practical adjustment, testing whether it works, and helping you repeat the improvement independently. It does not mean promising identical timelines or bypassing the consistent work required for lasting technique.
Bring your goals, material if you have it, accompaniment or tracks when relevant, and any audition requirements or deadlines. If you are unsure what to prepare, explain that in the interest form and David can suggest a useful starting point.
Choose in-person coaching if you value being in the room together, online coaching if flexibility and avoiding the commute matter most, and video review if you want extensive written or recorded feedback you can study asynchronously. If you are uncertain, describe your goal in the form and David will recommend a format.
Visit MusicalTheatreMastery.com for additional training, articles, tools, exercises, and information. This page is the direct path to working privately with David; Musical Theatre Mastery is the broader learning resource.
New Student Interest Form
Share your experience, goals, preferred coaching format, location, and any upcoming audition or performance deadline. I’ll follow up with the most useful next step and current availability.
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