Coaching Client Responses

"What I like most about working with David Diamond is that he has an organized process for first helping me to know my own mind and heart, and then partnering with me in formulating strategies for my career advancement. David is seasoned, mature and quite knowledgeable. His insights, guidance and suggestions were competent, welcomed and quite useful. Pursuing dreams can be a lonely road. Working with David Diamond, I had excellent company."
Benny Sato Ambush
January 4, 2004

Thank you for all of your calm, great listening and for helping to propel me further! I hope to see you soon and work with you again soon!!
Best regards,
Caitlin Barton

With David's insightful, humorous and thought-provoking coaching, I was able to gain valuable insight into what I want to do and how to go about it. And I made wonderful contacts and friends in the group.
Ann Duddy

"Prior to working with David my efforts at being an actor were haphazard. I did not fully believe in my ability or in my dream's possibility. When David became my career coach the structure of my thoughts began to change, then my actions followed suit. My acting career had been traveling on square wheels, and together he and I chiseled, filed, and sanded them down to round. (Presently we are spinning gossamer for a pair of wings.) He has helped me uncover the truth about what I want and what I need to do to get it, and he has helped me believe that I am capable and my dream viable."
     - Wendi Black

"David Diamond has supportively and skillfully invited my courage to stand behind my work and offered concrete steps to put that courage into action. I am deeply appreciative."
     - H M M Playwright/Director

"David has helped me to consider and verbalize what it is I most want to achieve for my career and life. He is able to challenge my thought process and push me into action while being sincere and extremely supportive."
     - Anonymous

"I want to say thank you so much for the wonderful inspiration and direction you've offered - so many incredible things have been materializing lately, and a lot has to with the focus and direction you've given me. It has been so helpful to write down my goals and get excited about things and the new perspectives you have given me."
     - Jennifer Garam

"I find myself looking forward to my talks with David. I get a lot off my chest, and he listens patiently, then cuts through it all, putting everything in perspective, reminding me of the big picture, and offering clear, sensible, practical, encouraging advice."
     - Rob Urbinati, Playwright/Director
  

Directing Your Directing Career
A Workshop Presented by David Diamond.

Faculty Responses to the Workshop

"My students at Columbia thought the Workshop was great. They want more, more, more!"
     - Anne Bogart, Head of Directing Program, Columbia University, NYC

"David Diamond's workshop for student directors entering the profession is invaluable. The presentation is beautifully organized, thorough and appropriate."
     - Gregory Lehane, Head, Directing, Carnegie Mellon University

"Your workshop was an invaluable experience for students and faculty alike."
     - Susan Shaughnessy, Head of Performance Area, Univ. of Oklahoma

"We all found it informative, thorough and engaging. The students were overwhelmingly positive about the experience."
     - Michael Bloom, Program Coordinator for Directing, University of Texas at Austin
  

Student Responses

"The information was practical, realistic and comprehensive."

"His presentation of the data was systematic and thorough."

"He was amiable, considerate, honest and thoroughly knowledgeable."

"Great! It should be much longer."

"Very useful."

"This workshop was a watershed experience for us. You have clearly defined areas in a directing career that we can use to improve our careers."

"Your honesty and wealth of information was invaluable."

"It will be something I will draw upon for years to come."

"Total delight."

"Excellent."