Jennifer Wigmore: AACE Conference & The Art Of Coaching

Are you an acting coach but can’t find a community to guide you? Are you an acting educator who wants to update your teaching skills and knowledge?

In this week’s episode, Actor/Painter/Teacher/Activist, Jennifer Wigmore takes us on a journey on how AACE was established to create a community amongst acting coaches and educators in Canada. AACE members share best practices and create standards for performers and workers in the entertainment industry.

Together we can make acting training safer and more empowering for everyone!

In this episode:

How an unfortunate casting experience evolved into Jennifer’s green light to quit acting.
How pursuing another artistic passion lead Jen to discover all creative endeavours are drawn from the same well.
Just because you’re a good actor doesn’t mean you’re a good teacher; sometimes your acting experience does not correlate into good teaching skills.
The conversations about what we need to know as acting coaches and educators have changed so much that everyone needs to update their knowledge about how to create respect based classrooms and how not to hurt people.

by Chelsea Johnson | Cue to Cue

A little about Jennifer:

Jennifer is a multidisciplinary artist in acting, writing, and visual art, and has worked for over twenty years as a professional artist. She has performed in theatre’s across Canada including The Arts Club, Citadel Theatre, Tarragon Theatre, Theatre Center, Canadian Stage Company and the Stratford Festival. Jennifer has also appeared in numerous television series and films including; Dream Scenario, Christmas as the Drive In, The Winter Palace, Y: The Last Man, Malory Towers, Adult Adoption, Happy Place, Designated Survivor, Anne with an E, Impulse, Killjoys, Suits, Kart Racer, Little Men, and I Was a Sixth Grade Alien. She has just been cast as Chief April Anderson in the highly anticipated series Cross, based on James Pattersons novels, starring Aldis Hodge. She also narrated Todd Babiak’s novel, The Spirits Up. She completed her BFA and MFA at OCAD University and continues to work as an acting coach and educator as well as a painting instructor. In addition to being a core member of the activist group Got Your Back, Jennifer is also a coordinator and steering committee member for AACE – The Association of Acting Coaches and Educators. Jennifer is also currently writing her first play called Measure2

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