Deana Barone --
LIVING HER STORY
I started out as a professional actor--
Off-Broadway, indies, commercials etc.-- at first to the horror of my family, and eventually with their support (it took a lot of work and effort for us to get there!)
Soon, I felt the pull to create my own material -- with themes that personally interested me, and people who talked like real humans and felt complex emotions.
I began to write --
stories, poetry, plays, short films, pilots. I still needed the audience connection and thus fell into storytelling, performance art, comedy, and solo shows. For three years, I created and co-produced/curated/hosted "The Trunk Show," a multi-genre storytelling show. That led to facilitating storytelling workshops, creative playshops, guest teaching at colleges, audition coaching, directing and developing others' shows, and creative coaching for all types, including innovators at DirecTV. Check out The TellTale Company.
A bunch of my plays have been produced and my acting, creations and curated pieces have had lovely notices and awards from critics and audiences. Check out my performance website.
On the side, I developed an educational coaching/tutoring business --
and found it as fulfilling as the rest of it. Working with younger people was incredible. I specialized in standardized tests, and then branched out into college apps and meta-education.
Check out Tutoring Works.
Transformation occurs when we harness the powers of our conscious and unconscious minds as they function in concert with our bodies. So...
I work as a certified Life & Spiritual Coach, EFT Facilitator, Meditation Teacher, and Reiki & Chakra healing practitioner. I am currently at the School of the Sacred Wild, apprenticing as an herbalist.
If you couldn't tell, learning new stuff gets me going. Lights me up. Activates my everything.
My biggest and best co-creation--
the little human I grew in my womb, has also led me to learn & grow in ways I would have never been able to predict.
So, it's a lot. I am a multi-passion, multi-interest, multi-multi person. In a "Live Your Story" cocoon.
Through all of it, I've shrunk quite a bit from social media, Instagram, YouTube -- because I just love the in-person connection. But if there wasn't a time before, there sure is one now: The time to embrace online-everything, especially learning and transformation. I mean, I'm educating myself that way! So I am offering e-courses, e-books, and Zoom coaching. I've been at it now since Covid struck, and I find the virtual connection incredible too.
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Talita Von Furstenberg
student, fashion designer, philanthropist, princess
Deana Barone... helped me every step of the way with my college applications. My essays even became fun because I was writing about things I was passionate about, in my own words...And -- I got into all my top choices!...I love love love working with Deana on anything creative...She helps make ideas become reality! Her speciality is storytelling and captivating an audience.
Michael Sorvino
Actor, Director, Producer
If you have a problem or issue you are dealing with — any problem or issue at all — you owe it to yourself to talk to Deana Barone...Nobody does it better...And nobody feeds your spirit, especially if it is a voracious one, like Deana Barone..
Claire Titelman
Comedian (Chelsea Lately), Actor, Writer, Performance Coach
Deana Barone is a wonderful acting coach who has helped me countless times. She coached me on multiple tv auditions that I’ve booked, as well as helped me prepare for a film, and gave great feedback on my standup sets. She’s extremely intelligent and intuitive. She loves the work and takes it and her students seriously. She gives a lot, expects a lot, and pushes her students to do their best work. No doubt her skills in acting, writing and directing play a part in her being a great acting coach. And she’s nice to be around!
Rasika Mathur
Comedian (Wild N Out), Actress, Writer, Podcaster
The woman who helped doula the storyteller I am today, the magnificent Deana Barone -- 6 years I’ve known this fabulous woman! I took a storytelling workshop with her and by 20 minutes in, I thought to myself, “I’m going to work with her one day.” By lunchtime of that workshop, we were already talking about it. She went on to direct many iterations of my one woman show, a hilarious and Herculean effort which won a Fringe Festival Scholarship 2 years ago, as Hey Hollywood My Hustle Has ADHD. Deana Barone you’ve been an amazing influence on my stagework, rehearsal process and writing and I can’t thank you enough.
Michael Patrick Dugan
Author, Cartoonist, Graphic Designer
Deana Barone helped me find the essence of what I needed to say or do. This sounds very vague, but if you read it again: she helped me get past whatever was blocking me... to find the very ESSENCE of what I needed to say. That is a potent thing. I empowered myself... and that was precisely her intent: help me create tools for my own success.
