ABOUT MAGALY
Magaly Colimon is a powerhouse performer and visionary creative—a Haitian-American actress, acting coach, playwright, director, and producer with a passion for storytelling that empowers and transforms. With an MFA in Acting from Yale School of Drama, Magaly brings depth, authenticity, and emotional intelligence to every role she embodies and every artist she mentors.
As the Producing Artistic Director and Founder of Conch Shell Productions, she champions bold new works by Caribbean diaspora artists that challenge the status quo and spark social change. Her extensive performance credits span stage and screen, including standout appearances on Law & Order: SVU, Blue Bloods, Grand Army, and more.
Magaly also shares her expertise as a teaching artist at HB Studio and through private coaching, guiding emerging actors to discover their voices and bring truth to the work. Whether performing, directing, or teaching, Magaly brings fierce imagination, compassion, and a commitment to excellence—awakening both audiences and artists, one story at a time.
private acting COACH
Magaly's goal is to provide clients with insights and guidance that will release them from habitual self-use patterns and free them to realize authentic moments in performance so that they may bring audition scenes to life in unique and specific ways.
Teaching approaches: Michael Chekov, Uta Hagan, Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement, Chakra Balancing, Improvisation, Breathwork and more
reviews
Clark Jackson - Actor
Magaly brought a powerful sense of immediacy in helping me prep for a TV series regular audition. Her use of Feldenkrais, elemental dynamics, Stanislovsky, psychological gesture, and modulating between theatricality and working on-camera all combined to move me in exciting directions in discovering moment-to-moment character choices, overcoming physical tension, and being more fully present.
Magaly has great intuition as an acting coach, and can sense if something isn't working and will readily discard an approach if it's not useful. In just 90 minutes of working together she helped me discover a journey for my character that moved me beyond my habitual choices and opened up my instrument so I could go into an audition that same day much more confident and ready to play.
I highly recommend Magaly as an acting coach if you're ready to transform and move beyond your comfort zones!
received several awards for my performances.
Nehanda Loiseau Julot
As a first time writer, I took a big risk the evening of Saturday, June 18, 2011. Never hearing my words spoken out loud before, Magaly refuted every ounce of fear and doubt I had in my work. Her words were penetrating and filled with emotional truth. A powerhouse actress, months later people still ask me who was that woman? I received feedback from people who didn't know me or the story, but they knew a passionate, fiery actor when they saw one. That actor was Magaly. I thank her for molding herself into my character that night, lifting her voice from the page, giving it as a gift to everyone in the room that night.
Edward O'Blenis
It was so fun to work with Magaly during the shooting of the show BN4Real. I admire her unrelenting drive and energy on such a huge endeavor and her strict attention to detail. She made sure than when we walked off you had the feeling of having had a fun, rewarding and accomplished day. I hope to work for her again and again.
Amber Leone Murphy
Magaly is a fabulous inspiration to many, including myself! She always has new creative ways to solve any problem you may bring to her with great enthusiasm. I hardly ever use the word extraordinary, but that encompasses her work ethic and the essence of who she is! Magaly is fun, challenging and wonderfully smart, it is always such a pleasure to work with her!
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