Gillien Goll
Acting
Biography
Gillien Goll is a talented actress who can portray serious roles as well as comedic roles. She has been compared to Lily Tomlin and Imogene Coca. Gillien has appeared on television, film and off-Broadway. Gillien Goll has been teaching acting for over twenty years – since 2001, at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy (AMDA), where she teaches Acting for Film & TV. She has also taught at Fordham University (Senior Audition), Piero Dusa Acting Conservatory (Monologues), Total Theatre Lab (Acting Technique, Scene and Monologue study), The Centaur Stage (Acting Technique, Scene and Monologue Study) Bob Collier’s (Commercials), and Berkley Productions (Voice-Overs). She was brought to Halifax, Nova Scotia, by ACTRA (the Canadian Film/Television Actors union) in Halifax, Nova Scotia to teach a workshop there, and served as on set acting coach/actors’ director for the web series “America 2049.” She continues to teach and coach privately. Students have appeared on Broadway, national tour, film, television, and commercials. She was a casting assistant on several TV pilots and cast an independent film for PBS. She also teaches public speaking and presentation techniques. As an actor, her TV credits include: The Onion, “Saturday Night Live,” “Sex & the City,” “The Sopranos,” “Chappelle's Show,” “Late Night with Conan O' Brien,” “100 Centre Street,” “All My Children,” TV pilot “Crisis Point,” “The Stephanie Miller Show,” and various commercials. Film credits: Hungry Years, Seize the Day, Looking Up, The Sun & the Moon, Family in the Way, She Devil. Theatre credits: The Circle Repertory, Manhattan Theatre Club, Lincoln Center, La MaMa, Theatre for the New City, as well as many off-off Broadway theatres. She appeared in Peculiar Works Project’s Obie Winning Off Stage: The West Village Fragments, and in Robert Heide’s one woman play, Hector. She is the Artistic Director of The Centaur Stage, a non-profit NYC theatre company (director, writer, actor, producer). She wrote a show that was optioned for Off-Broadway and was writer/story editor for Linda Yellen Productions (film/TV). Hosted nationally syndicated radio show, “Steppin’ Out.” She has an M.A .in Directing from Hunter College, where she studied with Harold Clurman & Lloyd Richards and a BA from Barnard College.
Known For
The story of New Jersey-based Italian-American mobster Tony Soprano and the difficulties he faces as he tries to balance the conflicting requirements of his home life and the criminal organization he heads. Those difficulties are often highlighted through his ongoing professional relationship with psychiatrist Jennifer Melfi. The show features Tony's family members and Mafia associates in prominent roles and story arcs, most notably his wife Carmela and his cousin and protégé Christopher Moltisanti.
The Sopranos
Based on the bestselling book by Candace Bushnell, Sex and the City tells the story of four best friends, all single and in their late thirties, as they pursue their careers and talk about their sex lives, all while trying to survive the New York social scene.
Sex and the City
100 Centre Street is an American legal drama created by Sidney Lumet and starring Alan Arkin, Val Avery, Bobby Cannavale, Joel de la Fuente and Paula Devicq.
100 Centre Street
Dave Chappelle's singular point of view is unleashed through a combination of laidback stand-up and street-smart sketches.
Chappelle's Show
E/R is an American television sitcom that aired in 1984 and 1985. Developed from the long running play of the same name created and produced by the Organic Theater Company under the direction of Stuart Gordon and conceived by Dr. Ronald Berman, the series was produced by Norman Lear and Embassy Television and lasted a single season. Shuko Akune and Bruce A. Young reprised their roles from the original Organic Theater Company production of the play. Steven Spielberg and Michael Crichton borrowed heavily from this show in the creation of their television drama similarly entitled ER.George Clooney, a regular on this show, would later appeared in the NBC's drama.
E/R
Tommy Wilhelm is a salesman. An honest, hard-working guy who has lost his job, his girlfriend, and left part of his sanity behind as he heads to New York to pick up the pieces of his life. He's always been able to sell, but caught in a downward spiral, he must, in addition, face the father who never really understood him, while trying to balance his newly precarious existence.
Seize the Day
Family secrets are revealed as three generations of a middle-class New York Jewish family come together in this story of good relations and bad relations.
Looking Up
After a sudden breakup, nutritionist Ellen embarks on a quixotic journey to find meaning outside the refuge of her diet-obsessed world.