About AWG
Acting with Grace is a space for truth, transformation and creative embodiment. It's where acting, singing, and self- inquiry meet- a practice of coming home to your voice, your body, and your humanity.
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Founded by interdisciplinary artist and teacher Julianna Grace Pirillo, Acting with Grace blends craft and consciousness: a synthesis of vocal training, emotional honesty and somatic healing.
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Through workshops and private coaching, students learn not just how to perform- but how to inhabit themselves fully and bring more of their authentic expressiveness through to their work. ​
"You don't need to be fixed, you need to be heard."
TESTIMONIALS
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Alice B.
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"Last night I had a Vocal Yoga session with Julianna and I've woken up this morning with no anxiety! I feel relaxation in my body and voice feels inhabited. Julianna embodies a lifetime of experience in the craft and attunement to voice. Her sensitivity and perception is mind- blowing and with deep holding through gentleness I was taken into new realms of self. I' m feeling the confidence I was needing to do my show tomorrow. Thank you Julianna."
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Claire W.
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"A great voice and a big heart show up when she facilitates. I love the way she makes sure everyone would be included."
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Trudy
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"Life changing."
About Me
I came to this work through my own lifelong search for voice. Growing up in an artistic household filled with music and imagination, I found freedom in singing, acting, and dance. But I also faced silence, self-doubt, and the weight of trauma and illness. For many years, my voice felt like both a refuge and a struggle.
My path took me through professional training in acting, singing, and movement across Europe and the US- but the true breakthroughs came when I began weaving artistry with healing. Acting with Grace was born from this integration. It is the philosophy and practice that continues to heal me, and now it is the space I hold for others to discover their voices, not only as sound, but as sovereignty, creativity, and truth.
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My approach is informed by decades of study across disciplines:
Notable Schools & Programs
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Arts Ed Tring, RADA, The Royal College of Music
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The Actors Centre, The Actor’s Temple, Howard Fine Studio
Influential Teachers & Modalities
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Acting: Vicky Jones, Gary Condes, Simon Furness, Bathsheba Garnett (Simplicity Acting), Larry Moss
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Singing: Veronica Veysey- Campbell, Judith Sheridan, Janelle Destefano
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Movement & Yoga: Eunice Laurel (Yoga Ballet Fusion), Amir Jaan (Kundalini Yoga), Heather Lyle (Vocal Yoga)
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Personal Development: Jamie Catto (Transforming Shadows), Candace Van Dell (Inner Work), Tihane Mujic (Creative Coaching)​
Certifications
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NATS-certified Vocal Yoga Teacher
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Graduate of Jamie Catto’s School for the Insanely Gifted (somatic parts work & facilitation)
Approach
Everyone has a story held in their nervous system, in their tone, in the way their breath moves through their body. In this work, we listen to the body as the first instrument.
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I guide clients through processes that integrate voice, emotion, and embodiment- helping them to regulate, express and create with clarity and depth.
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Sessions are structured yet adaptive, intuitive in nature, trauma- informed, and designed to meet you where you are. I encourage curiosity over judgment, and self acceptance. Every moment has something to offer.
This is an inclusive and nurturing environment where I emphasize students to discover things for themselves through my guidance, the exercises, reflection, and through sharing their experience and listening to others' experiences.
Methodology
The Acting with Grace methodology draws from four primary areas:
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Vocal Yoga- Understanding the voice as a whole body instrument, developing interoception by connecting to your breath, body and sound through movement based tension release and vocal alignment exercises.
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Shadow Work- Exploring your Inner voices- the unconscious material that shapes voice and expression, transforming repression into creative freedom and self reclamation.
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Simplicity Acting- Stripping away affected performance habits, to return to truth, stillness, and presence- here we practice the art of being and becoming, discovering and allowing character to emerge organically rather than curatively.
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Singing Technique- Bridging classical and contemporary methods with somatic awareness to build an instrument that is both disciplined, alive, versatile and fully yours.
OFFERINGS
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Vocal
Sovereignty
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Find your voice, your personal freedom and power through inner voice, emotional integration and embodied sound.
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Inner Voice Series- shadow work- based workshops exploring identity, emotion and creative truth.
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Voice as the Body- a suite of four workshops: Vocal yoga I & II, Vocal habits, hygiene & daily routines, and Shadow work voice integration.
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1: 1 Deep Dive Somatic Parts work- Working with blocks, triggers, beliefs and unmet needs, un-blending narratives and reintegrating parts of you you've abandoned or not heard from in a while to work for you not against you.
Artist
Expression
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For actors, singers, creatives (everyone is creative), ready to deepen, refine and gain more ownership of their craft and amplify authentic expression.
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Simplicity Acting Workshop- A 3- 5 day acting intensive, working on scenes in pairs live in a group setting. This class integrates vocal sovereignty with voice and thought connection to text and is a continuation of Bathsheba Garnet's pivotal work in discovering character, relationship and circumstance through deep full body listening and being with what is wanting to be seen and heard.
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How To Approach A song- How to work with text, musical phrasing, and world building through vocal line embodiment, consonant, vowel and resonance placement, language and story.
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Vocal Performance Masterclass- An opportunity to bring a song and your questions for hot spot coaching infront of a group.
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1:1s in Acting, Singing, Creative projects and Artist Development. ​