Gayla Goehl Acting Coach - The Playground Los Angeles

Gayla started teaching while still in college
earning her B.A. in Theater Arts from Western
Illinois University, where she also holds a minor in
Vocal Performance. While in New York she
started private coaching and teaching. Upon
moving to Los Angeles, Gayla was Lead Teacher
at CenterStage, LA where she conducted classes
in Advanced Scene Study, Script Analysis,

A member of SAG, AFTRA and AEA she has performed in over one
hundred and forty theatrical productions including creating lead roles in
Off-Broadway World Premiere productions (One More Time, Critical Care),
Chicago World Premiere productions (The Problem is Men, The Problem is
Woman, Lysistrata 2411 AD), Los Angeles World Premiere productions
(Twisted, The Tale of The Scorpion) as well as in Regional theater
(Medea, Antigone, Song of Singapore, Kiss Me Kate, Showboat, Music
Man). She has appeared in six films (The Sequence, All About Us), TV
shows (House M.D., Charmed), forty-five commercials (Prilosec Otc,
K-Mart, Olive Garden, Gillette), twenty voice-over campaigns (Pacifcare,
Inside Edition, TGIFridays), twenty filmed industrials (The FBI, Wal-Mart,

GAYLA GOEHL
Assistant Director/ Acting Teacher/ Private Coach

Audition Preparation, Cold Reading, Improvisation, and Relaxation &
Concentration Skills. While there she also established, developed and
taught beginning and advanced classes in Commercial Techniques and
Auditioning For Pilot Season. Additionally, Gayla currently teaches both
On-Camera Audition Techniques and On-Camera Commercial
Techniques at the prestigious Hollywood acting school Stella Adler.

Pepsi-Cola) and nine jingles (CBS “The Early Show”, Middas). Gayla was the first on-air face of The TV Guide Channel where she served as host/correspondent &
producer, interviewing over four hundred celebrities for Music News and The Insider segments as well as covering some of Hollywood’s most prestigious red carpet
events.

Gayla’s students appear in such various projects as FILMS: Monster House, Lower Learning, Without A Paddle: Nature’s Calling, Final Destination 4: Death Trip 3D,
Drillbit Taylor, High School Musical, High School Musical 2, Zoom, The Gold Retrievers: Legend of the Los Treasure, Legally Blondes, Side Effects, All You Need,
Clarksville, 21 Grams, Down To You. TELEVISION: Zeke & Luther, Jonas, True Jackson VP, Cold Case, ER, CSI, House M.D., Medium, Lincoln Heights, The Secret Life
of the American Teenager, Monk, Hannah Montana, ICarly, Suite Life On Deck, Everybody Hates Chris, The JumpArounds, The Suite Life of Zack and Cody, Ned’s
Declassified, Zoey 101, Boston Public, Mad TV COMMERCIALS: Pespi, Diet Coke, Kraft, Gillette, Burger King, Mattel, Hasbro, Sprint, Wrigley’s, K-Mart, TJ-Maxx, Sears,
Home Depot, Arby’s, KFC, Del Monte, Motorola, AAA, Carpis Sun, Reebox, RCCL, Old Navy, The Gap, Limited Too, Drivetime Insurance, AT&T, Bank One, Mervyn’s,
Always, McDonalds, Olive Garden.