Team Lighthouse
The Lighthouse Acting Studio was founded in 2018 with the intent of providing an alternative training space for professional actors in Toronto.
We take great pride in tailored coaching and assign material to assist each individual actor in creative and technical growth session to session.
Our coaches pull from their first hand experiences and training as actors to help support what each student might need to blossom and grow in their craft onstage and on-screen.
Angela Besharah
Owner & Head Coach
A graduate of the UC Drama Program at the University of Toronto, Angela’s been working in the film, television, theatre and voice industry for over two decades. As an actor, she’s appeared on a variety of networks & streamers including CBS, Netflix, Apple Studios, FOX, Sony, Amazon Prime, Paramount+, Hallmark, AMC, BBC America, Syfy, CW, FX, OutTV, CityTV, CBC & more.
Recent acting credits include : Doc (Fox), Settle Down (OutTV) , The Pradeeps of Pittsburg (Amazon), Accused (Sony), Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (Paramount+), Circuit Breakers (Apple TV), Orphan Black: Echoes (AMC), Mrs. America (FX), The Kennedys (History), Copper (BBC America), Bitten, Lost Girl (SyFy), Luckiest Girl Alive (Netflix) and more.
Also a director, Angela has 13 plays - 7 original works - under her belt along with directing 7 short films. She’s been coaching actors privately for self-tapes , auditions and set prep through her first business, Inside Light Studio, for over a decade. She’s also taken headshots & production stills, designed lights & sound, stage managed .. you get the picture. :)
She is a member of The Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television - CSAs, Television Academy - Emmys, WIFT, TIFF and ACTRA/Equity. Angela has worked as a professor and guest director at George Brown College.
AKB // @insidelight
Camera
Tia is a graduate from George Brown Theatre School and originally started working with Angela to help adjust her performance style to the screen. She’s recently moved behind the camera at Lighthouse to further deepen her on-screen acting and filmmaking eye. In her free time, Tia’s a writer for both stage and screen and is currently working on the post-production for a web miniseries that she created and shot last year.
@tiabaum
Tia Baum
Izad Etemadi
Coach
Izad Etemadi is a CSA nominated actor/writer/producer based out of Toronto whose work spans both stage and screen. An alumnus of the Canadian Film Centre’s CBC Actors’ Conservatory, he was named one of the Top 10 Toronto Theatre Artists of 2024. With over 8 years of experience working in casting for Film/TV and commercials, he has experienced all sides of the audition room. He is a professor at the George Brown College Acting For Media program and has been a guest instructor at the Canadian College of Performing Arts, Randolph and the University of Toronto. As a writer Izad has his own TV projects in development/production and tours his award-winning comedy shows nationally. Comedy is one of his biggest passions, and he loves helping actors find their comedic voices.
@izadetemadi
Camera
Justin is an actor and artist based out of Toronto and he is excited to be joining The Lighthouse team. Select film/TV credits include; 6 Guns for Hire, The Expanse, Murdoch Mysteries, Wynona Earp, Reign, Forsaken, Hell on Wheels, Heartland and Passchendaele. Select Theatre credits include: The Fight or Flight Response (Verb Theatre), King Kirby, Polygraph (Sage Theatre), Fritters in Kandahar, Time Present, The Invention of Music (Lunchbox Theatre), Medea (Chromatic Theatre), The General (Quest Theatre), The Bone House (Apparitions Theatre), Of Mice and Men (Theatre Calgary/CanStage), Richard the III, Twelfth Night (The Shakespeare Company).
@jmcarrierephoto
Justin Michael Carriere
Carmen Kruk
Coach
Carmen is an actor and coach based in Toronto. She holds an MFA from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama and has also studied at the University of Toronto, Canada’s National Voice Intensive, and improv at Second City Toronto. As a coach, she loves being able to customize her approach to meet each actor where they are, and is committed to creating spaces where actors feel free to take risks and (re)connect with the joy of acting.
@carmenkruk
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NEW STUDENTS :
Please send Headshot / Resume (pic/short blurb if new to the industy) to TheLighthouseActingStudio@gmail.com
RETURNING STUDENTS :
Contact us at TLHActingStudio@gmail.com with your preferred class/time and if there’s still space arrange payment.