Award-winning actor, writer, and storyteller helps performers, speakers, and creatives own the stage, screen, and mic.
Captivate your Audience
Group and Individual Writing & Performance Coach
for Storytellers, Solo Performers and Speakers
Steve Mize
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MFA in Acting & Playwriting
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Best Actor & Best Comedian Awards
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Lifetime Member of The Actors Studio
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National TV & Commercial Credits
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Toastmasters Award-Winner
I help writers, storytellers, and public speakers
develop compelling material and deliver it with confidence, clarity, and emotional impact
on stage, camera, and in the room using proven narrative, voice, and performance techniques.
Two decades of professional performing and writing experience in film, television, theater, voice and national speaking engagements.
Writers | Storytellers | Solo Performers | Public Speakers | Novelists | Memoirists | Actors
A strong story does more than unearth and reveal deep truths.
It's developed, massaged and structured to reveal the vast human tapestry of your life.
Then speak authentically and transparently to connect with your audience —
and trust you'll meet in the middle.
Discover
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Curated and Spontaneous prompts to jumpstart ideas
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Guidance tailored to your creative goals & pace
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Excavate your life to find golden stories
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Transform your personal stories into compelling material
Shape
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Shape raw ideas into clear, engaging stories
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Clarify your message
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Learn narrative structure (and how to adjust it)
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Use impactful words & phrases
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Write “off the page”
Deliver
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Performance techniques that engage any audience
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Perform with authority and authenticity
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Build presence, voice, and emotional connection
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Effortless memorization
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Deliver with Fun & Ease
SIGNATURE TOPICS INCLUDE
Craft stories that inspire, persuade, and excites an audience
Write for YOUR voice and the voice of your material
Discover, deepen and strengthen your personal narrative
Deliver stories with clarity, confidence and impact with ease
Develop raw material into structured emotional clarity
Develop voice, body, timing, and delivery that captivates
Build comfort with live-streamed webinars
A low-pressure, creative space to practice your craft, connect, and grow.
Tackling a novel, short story, personal essay, or upcoming show...
Bring your ideas, drafts, fears, experiments, rough outlines, doodles...
Polish dialogue, build characters, explore tone, play with structure...
Looking for motivation, brainstorming, or to ignite that spark...
You’ll leave with practical tools and fresh inspiration...
Powerful communication is about authentic connection
My Self-Taught Journey
When I finished graduate school in NYC, I knew that my education had just started. And to learn outside of books, I'd need to actively explore new opportunities. I taught myself guitar, I taught myself to paint and sculpt, I went Paris alone, with no place to stay, no French, and my tour guide was Hemingway's A Moveable Feast.
I was a flaneur. And I taught myself to write.
Now, I’m an actor, storyteller, and communication coach who has spent over two decades captivating audiences — Off-Broadway, film, television, and national speaking engagements as a certified Creativity Coach.
Along the way, I’ve earned two Best Actor awards in film, a Best Comedian Award for my acclaimed Off-Broadway solo show, and appeared in over forty national commercials and numerous primetime TV shows. I am also a professional voice actor, writer, and storyteller with more than thirty original works staged in Los Angeles.
I'm a Lifetime Member of The Actors Studio and hold a Masters (MFA) in Acting from the inaugural class of The Actors Studio at The New School University and a BA in Speech Communications from Texas A&M University.
My background combines techniques I've adopted from writing, acting, storytelling, and public speaking — giving me a uniquely creative
toolkit to help solo performers and speakers take raw ideas and
shape them into compelling, audience-ready material...
...and deliver with confidence, presence, and impact.
