Instrctor at Lone Star Actors Studio

Eleese Lester has been a working actress for the past twenty-five years with credits in both film and broadcast. She has worked opposite such stars as Dennis Hopper, Elizabeth Pena, Chuck Norris, Joshua Jackson, Jason Priestly, Mickey Rooney, Kyle Chandler and Adrian Pasdar. She has performed in such films as Lone Star, named as one of the ten best film of 1998 by New Yorker magazine, under the direction of legendary director John Sayles. Her most recent appearance has been on the NBC hit show, Friday Night Lights.
She has performed in hundreds of corporate training videos, national and local commercials and voiceovers for television and radio. She has been the national voice for Centerpoint Energy and Chef Boyardee as well as appearing more locally in commercials for St. Luke's Hospital, The Worksource and many others.

Ms Lester has been coaching film, commercial and voiceover actors since 1989. She taught for over 16 years at the prestigious Houston School of Film and Theatre and served on its board of directors and was Executive Director of the School from 1997-2004. She estimates that since 1989 she has worked with well over 3000 actors. Many are now working actors in Houston, New York and Los Angeles including Leven Rambin, teen star and two time Emmy nominee of the daytime soap opera All My Children. Lester credits her success as an acting coach to a love for the vulnerability and courage of actors and a desire to give them the tools that she wished she had in the beginning of her career.

Eleese Lester is also a sponsor of the Miss Texas pageant as well as the Miss Texas USA and Miss Texas Teen USA pageants for her work with young women such as Magen Ellis, Miss Texas USA 2007. She is also a proud member of WIFT, Women and Film and Television.

In 1995 Ms Lester created Authentic Communication, authentic-communication.com, a unique media-coaching firm in which she applies acting principles and communication skills to help serve the business community. She has become a top Houston media coach working with corporations like Compaq (HP) and Conoco as well as coaching business and civic leaders such as Harris County Commissioner Sylvia Garcia, former Miss Texas and film actress, Nicole O'Brien and FoxTV news anchor, Krystle Kaliszewski.
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Jim Conlan is a 40-year veteran of the broadcast media as a DJ, voice actor, announcer, and writer.
As the co-founder of Radio Works, Jim has a national reputation for writing and producing some of the most memorable radio commercials in the country. His voice has appeared in over a thousand radio and television commercials. He has directed hundreds of voice actors and announcers in Detroit , Houston, Los Angeles and New York .

Jim has conducted voice-acting classes in Houston since the early 90's, when he collaborated with Mercury Studio. Since then he has helped to develop many of the actors who are heard daily in the Houston media. He has also offered workshops through Pastorini-Bosby Talent and Leisure Learning Unlimited, covering everything from beginners to master classes and training both adults and children.

"I think the opportunity for people to earn income from their voices has never been greater. The challenge for each of us is first to recognize and develop our own unique voice, then to find as many ways as possible to market it. The saddest thing is when a talented person tries to be something they're not, or to be misled by bad direction. In those cases, there is as much to un-learn as there is to learn."
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Alyssia Dujmovich has been acting since childhood when she made her first film appearance in the Natalie Portman, Jean Reno film, “The Professional”. Over the past 14 years, she has had experience working in television, film, and theatre. She’s appeared on television with leading roles on NBC and the Sci-Fi Channel; she’s been seen onstage many times at the Alley Theatre and the Houston Grand Opera; and has recently completed filming a leading role in  “Spirit Camp”, a horror movie shot in Houston by accredited filmmaker and photographer Kerry Beyer.

Alyssia grew up in Houston and was active in theatre, film, and television throughout her childhood. She began by spending her summers in New York auditioning for everything she could from Nickelodeon shows to Broadway to films like “Interview with the Vampire”, “Little Giants”, and “Beautician and the Beast”. She’s continued acting and is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, with degrees in both Theatre and Public Relations.  Alyssia has been working closely behind the scenes as well. She’s had the privilege of working with some of Houston’s favorite and busiest casting directors in casting many commercials, which has helped give her new and broader perspectives of the audition process. She’s trained in New York as well as in Houston with some of the best actors and acting coaches available. Not only is she a previous student of Eleese Lester’s, but she has had extensive training in New York with Bob Luke, who has worked with actors on the Cosby Show, Ransom, Zathura, and most recently Enchanted starring Grey’s Anatomy’s Patrick Dempsey.

In addition to teaching kids workshops for LSAS, she’ll also be working on expanding the business through increased marketing efforts. She’s glad that she’ll be able to be a part of the studio in many creative ways and looks forward to helping foster excitement, creativity, and professionalism in young actors.
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Alison Coriell has trained with and performed almost all the major improv theater in the country including: The Pit, Improv Olympic, Second City, Upright Citizens Brigade, Comedy Sports and Theater Sports.

She has been teaching and directing improv for the past five years. She has written and has worked as a script doctor for multiple sketch reviews in both Chicago and New York. Alison has her BFA from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and last summer completed the acting residency at Steppenwolf in Chicago. She was recently seen as Jo in Stages Repertory production of American Brat.

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Celeste Roberts has been a working actress for the past fifteen years with credits in film, commercial, industrial, voiceover and theater.   She recently completed filming on Gary the Tennis Player starring Seann William Scott and directed by Danny Leiner.   Locally she is a company member at Main Street Theater where she has performed in numerous productions that include the recent hit Intimate Apparel, The Women, James Joyce’s The Dead, Experiment with an Air Pump, Uncle Vanya, An Ideal Husband, and Ouroboros.  She performs with the Houston Shakespeare Festival and has played Kate in Taming of the Shrew, Celia in As You Like It, Tamora in Titus Andronicus, and Ceres in The Tempest.   Celeste has also performed locally at Theater LaB, Stages Theatre, and The Ensemble Theater.  Ms. Roberts is a member of the national Actor’s Equity League.

Currently, Celeste is the featured female narrator for Hewlett Packard’s website.  Additionally, she performs in local television and radio commercials that include Reliant Energy, Academy, Fiesta, and Murphy’s Deli.  Ms. Roberts also does voiceover for anime features produced by ADV films.  Her industrial credits include Shell, BP, Randall’s, Prisma Energy, Exxon-Mobile, Centerpoint Energy, BMC Software, Romar Consulting and Compaq. 

Ms. Roberts holds a BA in English Literature from the University of Houston.  She has studied with casting director Michael Shurtleff (author of Audition) and Alley Theatre actor James Black.  Originally a native of New Orleans, Celeste is proud to call Houston home for the past eighteen years and thoroughly enjoys her local acting career.
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