Experienced tutor in Acting in Kansas City, Heidi offers private lessons tailored to your needs.

Heidi is a great coach and mentor. She is very honest, direct, and kind. With Heidi, it is more than just words, it is physicality, breath, tone, and structure. She is very detailed and will not hesitate to tell you what she thinks. She knows how to push you in all the right ways so you get results. I love working with Heidi.

Heidi is very personable, and she knows how to communicate with actors in a way that they will understand. I felt very comfortable around her, which is very important when working on something as personal as acting. She gave me the knowledge and confidence I needed for some very important auditions in my life, and I would love to work with her again in the future.

The freedom to bring your own self to the table, and the freedom to play, while also maintaining the integrity of the characters and their stories. Each moment is full of heart and passion, and brave, honest story telling.

Heidi has a lot of passion for the work she does and working with her is a very collaborative process.

Heidi is a brave, intuitive, visionary director. She will challenge you and champion you throughout the process. She is particularly gifted in utilizing physical movement to create structures that help actors access their character's situation. She is also gifted in forging community. With Heidi on your side, you will settle for nothing less than your best work... and you will have a lot of fun. Heidi's a blast to work with.

The freedom to bring your own self to the table, and the freedom to play, while also maintaining the integrity of the characters and their stories. Each moment is full of heart and passion, and brave, honest story telling.

The environment that Heidi Van creates in her rehearsals makes for a safe place to explore and make choices. Her directing and design vision is always inspiring, but she is also very collaborative and gracious towards her cast and team. It's clear by the quality of work she produces how much effort and care she puts into each project, and she was always very kind and approachable with questions and insights. It was a privilege and a joy to work in the supportive and passionate environment she helped cultivate, and I would love to work with Heidi again!

I really enjoy how well Heidi connected to me as an actor. She knows first hand the process an actor goes through and she is able to articulate direction that taps right into what the actor is feeling. She is thorough with her coaching and direction. Heidi creates an environment that allows actors to explore and create free of judgment.

I've had two wonderfully unique experiences working with Heidi! In PROJECT DAWN, the cast had the challenge of taking on multiple characters and she added amazing insight. Being an incredible actor herself, she guided us through a heavy script and provided us with ideas and inspiration all the way that made it much less daunting. It became quite empowering with Heidi at the helm! During DEATH BY SHAKESPEARE, the piece was performed in a nontraditional space. Heidi knew how to transform the venue and use every inch of it to accommodate the script. That was one of the most fulfilling and exciting performing experiences I have ever had. Heidi is a true treasure!

Heidi helped me immensely. Her fun personality and attention to detail helped me unleash new nuances of my pieces I hadn’t yet consider. She also helped me a lot with making strong physical choices and becoming confident in my body. Besides her masterful attention to technique, she is also an extremely kind and thoughtful person. After my lesson, I not only gained so many new skills, I gained a dear friend!

Heidi is a fantastic physical theater artist/actor. She challenges her actors to relate their thoughts into their bodies, and have their tactics and objectives engaged physically.

Heidi Van is absolutely incredible to work with! She has such a unique way of looking at a character's physicality and how it relates to what they are going through. She encourages you to look at who you are playing from an unparalleled point of view which opens you to a mass of new and engaging acting choices.

Heidi is a non-stop force of creativity. She unceasingly pushes and encourages her actors. She makes everyone excited to be in theater. And she loves what she does more than anything. Working with her is a truly unique opportunity.