Acting & Drama Instruction
For youth and adult learners — foundational technique, improvisation, and stage presence for belonging, self-respect and courage.
Drama & Performance
Embodied learning for students, performers, and teams
I teach and coach drama, acting, and performance — for students building social-emotional skills, adults developing confidence and self-expression, and organizations looking to bring embodied, experiential learning to their teams. My approach blends professional theatre training with trauma-informed group facilitation experience from clinical and educational settings.
What I Offer
Drama-Based SEL Programs
Social-emotional learning curricula for schools, built around arts-based engagement.
Team Performance Workshops
Communication, presentation, creativity, conflict-resolution and presence-building sessions for organizations and teams.
Group Facilitation
Facilitating hope, resilience, kindness and mindfulness for mental health and community settings, drawing on clinical facilitation experience.
In Action
What Clients & Students Say
Dear Nikolai. Thank you for responding to my request in helping me to determine where to go from here and now. For taking the time over several months to gently guide me, help articulate and clarify my goals. For asking the right questions for self-reflection and pushing me to work on myself. Yes, there is no doubt that you helped me change my life, pushed me to change. It was after your coaching sessions that I decided to let everything go in Russia and went to India without a return ticket. I had some plans, I was planning to find something specific here. I found something completely different. Without expecting it, I was able to realize my diverse abilities, knowledge and skills, and found a new use for my talents. I realized that it is important to understand a vocation not through the head, but through the heart. It is a call. And you can hear it when your heart is open. You can be quiet, stand still for a while, listen to nature and feel or fantasize about what you can share with the community. Or you can get in tune with nature and your surroundings, and then the principle of synchronicity begins to work, where people come to you for your talents through a line of interconnections. You just find yourself in the right place at the right time and tell other about yourself, or friends tell about you to the right people. Thank you again for your coaching sessions. You really helped me realize my self-value and express myself creatively.