Meet your Coaches

  • Jacob Leaf is a Producer and Director living in Chicago, although you can often find him Media Directing for Chef Rick Bayless at Frontera Grill and Topolobampo. Jacob is currently the Managing Producer of Candle House Collective where he has also directed the award-winning productions of CLAWS and Collect Call, among many others. Jacob’s passion is in enabling artists to do their work with passion, dedication, focus, and clarity. When he's not working, Jacob is working, and when he's not working, he is rock climbing or revising newly written scripts.

    • Shakespeare

    • Contemporary Play Analysis

    • Relaxation-Based Movement Technique

    • Expedited Auditions + Callback Prep

    • Long-Term Career Development

    • BA (Theatre) + MT Cert, Northwestern University

    • Producer, Director Candlehouse Collective

    • 5 yrs. individually coaching

  • Shraman Ghosh is a music director, pianist, and actor in Chicago, with contributions towards shows such as Once (Writers Theatre), Steadfast Tin Soldier (Lookingglass Theatre Co.), and ShakeSings! (Chicago Shakespeare Theatre). He has also coached song acting and voice as a freelance artist, helping numerous friends and clients successfully prepare for auditions and self-tapes. He also climbs rocks for fun. So yeah. He’s a professional.

    • Contemporary Song Acting

    • Voice Acting

    • Vocal technique and contemporary stylings

    • BA (Theatre) + MT Cert, Northwestern University

    • Music Director at various Chicago theaters

    • Professional Accompanist at Northwestern University

    • 4 yrs Individual Coaching

What are we?

Leaf and G are your investment in yourself and your artistic practice.

We meet you where you are in your development as an artist, an auditioner, a working actor; whether you come in with full, methodological understanding or just your instincts, we use what you can already do to get you closer to getting what you want.

We expand and organize everything you bring to the table into a method tailored to you. Informed by years of coaching and the collective experience of two people who have served as Producer, Director, Music Director, Casting Director, and Actor, Leaf and G leave you with the skills you need to nail your auditions, and become a better artist.

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FAQs

  • In our apartment! Our laid-back atmosphere is far more conducive to working effectively than sterile, contrived playing spaces. (Sadly,) There are no pets, so the allergy-prone need not worry.

  • Coaching sessions last for one hour, one-on-one, working on whatever material you bring in. For your first session, it is suggested that two relevant audition materials are brought with the knowledge that only one may be addressed. As coachings occur more regularly, the rate of the work will change.

  • They may! The rates for house calls are $115-150/hour depending on distance and are scheduled at each coach’s convenience.