Belton, Texas - Tara Coet Felmly, UMHB performance studies alumna and owner of T Coet Talent, will conduct a workshop at the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor on Monday, December 8, at 11:00 a.m. The workshop will be held in Brindley Auditorium, York Science Hall on campus. Tara works in the entertainment business daily as a talent agent, who represents actors for commercials, voice over, television, and film. Her actors have had principal roles in nationally known projects including, "The Great Debaters," "W," "Kings of Appletown," "Prison Break," "Friday Night Lights," "Major Movie Star"... and countless others.
Tara Coet Felmly comes regularly to UMHB. Through one of her workshops at UMHB she "discovered" UMHB student Will Johnson. Johnson has worked in the role of Thomas in "Friday Night Lights" and has played Scott in the soon to be released "Bandslam" that stars Vanessa Hudgens and Alyson Mychalka. He is currently employed by the Disney Corp. as a performer. Felmly is also currently developing Marianna Lugo Cancel, another UMHB performance studies alumna, who is a bilingual talent.
At the December 8 workshop, Felmly will speak about how to break in to the entertainment business as an unknown actor.
This workshop is free and open to the public. For further information about the workshop or the performance studies program at UMHB, contact Dr. Diane Howard. The performance studies program provides training for students in film, television, radio and platform presentations. The performance studies program is in the Department of Communication and Media Studies and in the College of Humanities at UMHB.
