Entertainment Career Coaching

How do you balance your art and the business of your art?

DO YOU WANT CREATIVE AND
CAREER SUCCESS?

Hi, I’m Shawn Tolleson Award-Winning Director, Writer, Producer and Entertainment Career Coach

SHAWN TOLLESON’S

CAREER IN NUMBERS

Shawn is a multi-award-winning director, writer and producer. As a career coach, her clients’ credits include Avengers: Endgame, 20th Century Women, Her, Fear The Walking Dead, This Is Us, Zoo, The 100, Mad Men, Criminal Minds, Glee, Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., NCIS: LA, The Bad Seed, Grey’s Anatomy, Star Trek: Picard, Mayans M.C., UnREAL, Empire, regional theatres such as The Geffen Playhouse, the Mark Taper Forum, Guthrie Theatre, Pasadena Playhouse, Arena Stage, ACT Seattle, networks and streamers such as Netflix, Hulu, Lifetime, Amazon, CBS, HBO, FX, the Hollywood Bowl, Broadway, Off-Broadway, and more.

Feature Films Written, Directed and/or Produced

Awards and Fellowships as a Writer/Director

Years Career Coaching Experience

Satisfied Clients: Actors, Writers, Directors, Composers, Playwrights, Designers and more

Commercials, Music Videos and short form projects produced and/or production managed

Original Projects Sold

Film festivals played

THIS IS...

HOW TO START ACCOMPLISHING YOUR
BIG CREATIVE AND CAREER GOALS TODAY!

DIGITAL

You can access entertainment career coaching from anywhere in the world, at any time. It’s convenient. It’s available right now. No more procrastination.

EXPERIENCE

Learn from a multi-award-winning director, writer, and producer with 15 years of career coaching experience and more than 4000 satisfied creative clients.

PEOPLE

Powerful Group Coaching Calls. Private Facebook Group. Network and get support from a community of like-minded peers (and future colleagues!)

THAT ACTUALLY WORKS

I’ve combined the best tools I have from over 15 years of coaching actors into THRIVE.

Get step-by-step guidance
Learn the business of “Show Business”
Join a community of like-minded peers (and future colleagues!)
Utilize the right tools for success

Want to get coaching right now? Exactly where you’re at? Join THRIVE and your next group coaching call to get coached by Shawn. Don’t waste time, hemming and hawing, wondering if your strategy is the right one. Get specific and strategic feedback to help you get into powerful action and create results

MORE AMAZING ENTERTAINMENT CAREER COACHING PROGRAMS

TO BREAKTHROUGH IN YOUR ACTING, WRITING, DIRECTING (+ MORE) CAREER

YOUR CAREER QUICK
START

HOW TO OPEN DOORS & PITCH YOURSELF

THE 35 DAY GET REPPED CHALLENGE

THE DAY JOB/PASSION JOB SOLUTION

ACTORS, ARTISTS & MORE

WHAT CLIENTS SAY ABOUT
MY ENTERTAINMENT CAREER COACHING

Patrick G.

Actor - Hundreds of credits over a 60 year career on Broadway, film and television including classics Three Days of the Condor, Gettysburg, Gods and Generals, and hits such as Avengers: Endgame, Westworld, Sleepy Hollow, to name just a few.

MORE AMAZING ENTERTAINMENT CAREER COACHING RESULTS

CLIENT REVIEWS

PRESTON J.

Actor - NCIS, True Blood, Cousins for Life, Stitchers, General Hospital

When I get stuck in my career I take one of Shawn’s programs to get back on track. I recently completed one, and I am more excited and motivated about my career than in the 5 years I’ve been in L.A. With Shawn’s guidance, I was able to narrow down my goals, get focused, and now I finally have direction with my career. Shawn helped me create a map of what I am going to achieve and HOW I will accomplish it. Everything you learn in these workshops you can take with you for the REST OF YOUR CAREER!

SUZANNE F.

Actor - Fresh Off the Boat, Mason Family Vacation, Grace and Frankie, Criminal Minds, Grey’s Anatomy

Shawn Tolleson’s programs are a wonderfully effective way to create a rapid, powerful surge in your career. My goals have never been clearer nor more attainable, and the best part has been the immediate results. Shawn’s way of shifting attitude and focus from stymied and stuck to productive and triumphant is absolutely uncanny. I wouldn’t have thought it would work so potently had I not experienced it first hand. I recommend working with Shawn to any actor, writer, director, producer — anyone with a creative mission who wants to take their professional career to the highest level. Of course, you have to put in the work – but the work is made CLEAR and eminently achievable. Her programs will show you where you need to be and how to get there, faster than you think possible. And it’s fun.

AUBREY H.

Actor - The Man in the High Castle, NCIS: New Orleans, NCIS, The Wire, True Blood, Classic Stage Company, South Coast Repertory Theatre, Royal Shakespeare Company, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Round House Theatre, The Old Globe

Shawn, I use my Hit Lists every week, and revisit my Breakthrough goals on a regular basis, such valuable tools for which I’m so super grateful! I just voiced all the male characters for a new 3D undersea adventure game for the iPad called Super Fugu directed & animated by the Academy Award winning animator of Avatar, Andy Jones. I also workshopped a world-premiere play by Paula Vogel (Pulitzer Prize winning author of How I Learned to Drive) called Don Juan Comes Back from Iraq at the Wilma Theater in Philadelphia.