Adria Dawn private coaches actors, and has taught at and toured colleges teaching on-camera acting, auditioning, and self management. She currently teaches at Tarleton/Dawn Productions, Acting Studio Chicago and The Performer's School. She was formerly on the faculty of Columbia College Chicago. She has taught on-camera acting workshops across the United States and Europe.

Working with talent of all ages and levels, Adria has taught workshops or spoken at SAG-AFTRA Chicago, Franklin Arts Center, University of Michigan, DePaul University, Loyola University, Columbia College Chicago, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, New Trier High School, Chicago High School for the Arts, Chicago Screenwriters Network, Camp Hollywood in Portland, Oregon, Southside School, Champaign, IL, Chicago Acting in Film, The Chicago Artists Coalition, Deerfield High School, Gray Talent Group, The Illinois High School Theatre Festival and The Actor’s Centre in London, England. 

At Tarleton/Dawn Productions, Adria offers personalized coaching on an individual basis as well as on-camera classes. Whether it’s helping an actor audition at his/her fullest potential, one on one ongoing acting classes, or group classes, emphasis is on creating focused, personalized performances. 

*Upcoming Class at Tarleton/Dawn Productions: 

Reel Acting: Taking Training Out of the Classroom, and Onto the Set / Winter 2018

At Acting Studio Chicago, Adria is going into her fourth year as an on-camera acting instructor. Currently she teaches On-Camera level 2 for Actors and Small Roles for Actors. 

At The Performer’s School, Adria has taught on-camera acting workshops as well as a yearly five week filmmaking class working with younger talent to make films for social change. Topics have included bullying, social exclusion, cyber bullying, peer pressure, drug and alcohol abuse, etc. These films are a made through Revealing Media Group, a partnership between Tarleton/Dawn Productions and The Performer's School. RMG just finished their sixth film and all of them have found distribution. Adria is the teacher, writer, co-director and producer of this series.

As an actor, Adria spent many years working in LA and continues to work in Chicago. One of her career highlights includes working on TV mogul Ryan Murphy’s cult hit Popular (18 episodes) for which she was nominated as “Gutsiest Woman on Television,” by Jane Magazine.