Coaches

Gregory Franklin

GREGORY FRANKLIN ’91 (Artistic Director, Team Coach/LA) has been a teacher and a coach since 1977 remaining active in the industry as an award-winning actor and entertainer. As Artistic Director for PAG, he holds over two decades of experience in the entertainment industry including: commercials, interactive videos, industrials, television and film as well as theatre, concert dance and music. His recent credits include the recurring role of Thomas Brunton on the ABC pilot episodic, Elementary; the evil scientist in the feature film, Little Heroes III for Animal Planet; and the spot hero for national commercials for Buick and Miller Lite. He has held positions as a producer, director, resident director, music director and choreographer.

Natalie Marston

NATALIE ELIZABETH MARSTON ’96 (Coach/LA) started her career at the age of six. Natalie’s commercials have ranged from such well-known products as Mattel and Disney to Pillsbury and Chevrolet. In television, Natalie has been seen in co-starring, guest appearances on Smart Guy, Two of a Kind, The Amanda Show, and series regular roles in a television pilot with Wally Amos (also known as “Famous Amos” of Famous Amos Cookies), What Do Kids Know? quiz team, and The Agency, in the role of Diane Haisley with Will Patton. In film, she is in Magnolia with Tom Cruise, Time Share in the lead role of Daphne with Timothy Dalton, and in Beethoven’s 4th in the role of Haley.

Coke Morgan

COKE MORGAN ’96 (Coach/NY) has years of professional experience in film, television, plays, musicals and opera. He’s performed regional theater in California, Tennessee and Alabama; Opera in New York City, California, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Italy and Germany; Film and Television work in Los Angeles and New York City. The performers he has coached have appeared throughout the world in film, television, plays, musicals and opera.

Danni Wheeler

DANNI WHEELER ’93 (Coach/LA) has been working in the film/television industry since her multiple appearences as “young Victoria” on daytime’s Another World. She has guest/co-starred on several shows including Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Diagnosis Murder, Sisters and Unsolved Mysteries. Her leading roles in film include Psycho Beach Party, Showtime’s original Confessions of a Sorority Girl with Alyssa Milano, the made for television movie Without Warning, and The Phantom Eye, an AMC origianl movie. Danni’s experience also includes national commercials for Pizza Hut, Isuzu, Ritz Crackers and Lotus Software as well as many roles in plays and musicals on the west coast. A member of PAG for 13 years, she began coaching for PAG/New York in 2002 and currently coaches in Los Angeles.

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