ABOUT
WHAT WE DO
We Coach You To Your Best
In this industry it is not enough to just be a great actor. It is imperative that you become a well rounded artist and business person to control your brand and create your own lane so that you have control over your career.
Actors In Control provides our clients with industry guidance, personal development, and acting coaching to sharpen your skills as an actor while mastering the art of auditing. Our curated team of professional managers, agents, and actors come together in our masterclasses to share the business of acting so you not only advance your opportunities to do what you love but also get paid for doing it.
As professional actors, we pride ourselves on helping our clients gain increased confidence in their craft while building a brand that will promote a promising career.
Our Services
Private Coaching
We are classically trained working professional actors that know how to help you fine-tune your acting skills. Our coaching techniques mentor you into continuously providing your best performance.
Career Guidance
Our career masterclasses provide our clients with opportunities to hear from our curated team of industry professionals that include both managers and agents to provide career guidance.
Self-Tapes
Self-tapes are now the new standard for the entertainment industry. We know what it takes to craft the art of the audition, which is vital for a successful acting career. We coach you into a successful audition tapes.
Project Development
In today’s industry it often isn’t enough to just be an actor. There are plenty opportunities to be had, but with so much competition its easy to fall between the cracks. We help to guide you in creating those opportunities for yourself.
ABOUT THE FOUNDER
IAN VERDUN
Los Angeles native Ian Verdun is a graduate of the California Institute of the Arts and the British American Drama Academy. Best known for his breakout role as Xander McClure on Freeform’s sci-fi thriller “Siren”, he knows what it takes to stay relevant in the ever changing and unpredictable entertainment industry. His performances have been described as “brimming with grit and honesty” by Backstage, “quirkily charming” by Variety, and “finely nuanced” by LA Weekly. Ian has also been hailed by Stage Scene LA as the “brightest stage discovery of 2011”.
Ian continues to cut his teeth on the stages of New York and Los Angeles, along with writing and producing several plays himself. After appearing on ABC’s “Last Resort”, TNT’s “Hawthorne” and FOX’s “Lucifer”, Ian threw his energy into his own television creation, “Life’s A Drag”. Following years of experiencing the lackluster opportunities for diverse entertainers, “Life’s A Drag” went on to win a number of awards in the burgeoning web festival circuit, including a special award for recognition in diversity.
His current project in development is a new comic book series titled “The Burden”, which is his childhood dream come true. Curating a team of artists he is working to bring a dark new Universe with diverse characters to life and is paving a path to create his own IP. The development of “The Burden” reignited his passion for helping fellow thespians and he decided in March 2023 to restructure his original 2013 dream for Actors In Control, which was originally designed to help actors with website branding and exposure. Today the Verdun’s dream for Actors In Control has been expanded into acting classes, coaching, and masterclasses designed to help actors build their confidence and hone their craft, while providing audition coaching and self-tapes, as well as industry guidance, and project development for client’s individual projects as well.
With an ever increasing volatile entertainment industry, AIC is giving actors an opportunity to create their own lane for their careers rather than being dependent on one audition at a time.
Ian can next be seen in 20th Century Fox’s sci-fi release, “The Creator”, which stars John David Washington and Allison Janney and is Director Gareth Edwards’ latest project since 2016’s genre redefining epic, “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story”.
HIGHLIGHTS
- Featured in Rolling Out Magazine
- Featured in Essence Magazine
- Cast in ABC's 2008 Diversity Showcase in New York
HIGHLIGHTS
- Taught acting in the School of Film/Video at CalArts
- Professional Stunt Actor
- Produces & DJs Dance Music
ON THE TEAM
ALANNA BLAIR
Alanna Blair (they/them and he/him) specializes in the unexpected.
You may have seen Blair going in for the kill on Lucifer’s Partners ‘Til the End (2021) and The Blacklist’s The Kazanjian Brothers (No. 156/157) (2020), and teaching a painful lesson in New Amsterdam’s Pilot (2018). Dig deeper and you’ll find characters like a reptilian bassist (Lower East Asides (2020)), a volatile recovering addict (Spring Street (2017)), and an industry con artist inspired by Marie Castaldo (Even Just (2020)). Blair co-wrote and performed in the thriller Prime Matter (2018), it eerily portrays life mid-evacuation of New York City infected with an airborne contagion.
Blair’s stunt career began with doubling, and has progressed to action acting and stunt driving.
Stage projects include “Above Us”, a devised two-character rooftop drama (New York Fringe Festival), and “The Waste Land” (Edinburgh Fringe Festival).
An BFA Alumni of CalArts, Blair has taught acting in the School of Film/Video.
Additional training includes the Michael D. Cohen Acting Studio, Apartment 929 with Clark Middleton in New York, The Studio with Brad Calcaterra, and The Barrow Group with Seth Barrish and Lee Brock.
Blair produces and djs dance music as TGR, and supplies vocals and bass guitar in the bands Just Fabulous, Sumpumps, and Sababa
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