Marcy Schacter
Marcy Schacter, considered a maverick in the area of effective communications, sales and marketing, has founded several businesses over the course of her career and has been described by many as a "true visionary entrepreneur" with infectious enthusiasm and an out of the box thinker.
Her career began in retail sales as young teenager and led to her being the youngest manager at the Vancouver Le Chateau family run business for several years until she went off to pursue a college degree in Theatre arts in Montreal. Her pursuit of acting brought out new skills in different forms of communication from dance, musical performance, mask and theatre presentations. She also became fascinated with improvisational work and the art of comedy and character development. She later studied Comedy and improvisation at Toronto's Second City and Vancouver Theatre sports when she later moved back to her home town and eventually began her own improvisational theatre classes and troupe of players.
Vancouver in the early 80's was most impacted by Marcy's launching a series of highly successful programs in the personal development arena with the westcoast franchise of the Actors Institute (locations in New York, L,A, and London) after she began offering the Mastery Workshops of Self Expression. Over the next several years the curriculum of programs expanded ten fold and this platform allowed Marcy to sharpen her skills in negotiations, consultative selling, communications and she became an accomplished workshop presenter and facilitator. But as she was also responsible for every aspect of running these diverse new programs the areas of her expertise grew rapidly as she performed a roles in sales, promotions, media and advertising campaigns, PR, administration design and marketing of additional course curriculums. She successfully marketed and sold a large number of these programs working in a cold market that literally exploded within over the next five years to a loyal community of some 2500 alumni. Many of her workshop attendees still claim to this day that those programs had a profound impact on their careers and their lives.
After selling the company in 1987 she went on to pursue her goals as a playwright and director and once again founded two companies with a strong focus in the entertainment industry and became one of the largest film and training schools in BC. and also ran a non-profit theatre group in Vancouver and Whistler.
Her education includes a Theatre Arts program from Langara College Studio 58 and Dawson College along with multiple acting, directing and script writing workshops and intensives. With hert Westocast Actors studio she formed another company called Xtreme Entertainment which was contracted to do weekly Children's theatre showcases for Intrawest Corp. in Whistler, BC. As ongoing performances and workshops kept her busy over the next few years, she found time to write her first few feature film scripts and from one spec script she managed to get hired by Freedom Four Films in Vancouver to write a romantic comedy based on a true story and thus began Marcy's love for storytelling in a new medium. She has continud to teach personal development through acting, improvisation and entertainment industry courses at several BC schools and organizations over the years including the Vancouver Film School, Charles Stuart Modeling agency and the Westcoast Actors Studio.
After over 15 years working as an actor, playwright and director of theatre and improvisation comedy shows she ventured further into screenwriting and in 2005 founded FTX West Film and TV Expo with producer Rob Neilson. There she was instrumental once again in impacting the entertainment industry landscape and after a number of years of back breaking effort she penned several more screenplays and closed the company to pursue other business ventures. One of her scripts for TV was optioned and led to other writing assignments. During this time period she also produced writers retreats and special screenwriting workshops working with scriptwriters and authors such as Ellen Sandler ( Executive producer "Everybody Loves Raymond", "Coach") and Dara Marks, author of "Inside Story" who is also rated as the number one Hollywood script analyst by "Creative Screenwriting Magazine" each year.
Marcy is currently pitching a couple of original spec scripts for television while building a Social business with Evolv Health on a part time basis.
Marcy Schacter, considered a maverick in the area of effective communications, sales and marketing, has founded several businesses over the course of her career and has been described by many as a "true visionary entrepreneur" with infectious enthusiasm and an out of the box thinker.
Her career began in retail sales as young teenager and led to her being the youngest manager at the Vancouver Le Chateau family run business for several years until she went off to pursue a college degree in Theatre arts in Montreal. Her pursuit of acting brought out new skills in different forms of communication from dance, musical performance, mask and theatre presentations. She also became fascinated with improvisational work and the art of comedy and character development. She later studied Comedy and improvisation at Toronto's Second City and Vancouver Theatre sports when she later moved back to her home town and eventually began her own improvisational theatre classes and troupe of players.
Vancouver in the early 80's was most impacted by Marcy's launching a series of highly successful programs in the personal development arena with the westcoast franchise of the Actors Institute (locations in New York, L,A, and London) after she began offering the Mastery Workshops of Self Expression. Over the next several years the curriculum of programs expanded ten fold and this platform allowed Marcy to sharpen her skills in negotiations, consultative selling, communications and she became an accomplished workshop presenter and facilitator. But as she was also responsible for every aspect of running these diverse new programs the areas of her expertise grew rapidly as she performed a roles in sales, promotions, media and advertising campaigns, PR, administration design and marketing of additional course curriculums. She successfully marketed and sold a large number of these programs working in a cold market that literally exploded within over the next five years to a loyal community of some 2500 alumni. Many of her workshop attendees still claim to this day that those programs had a profound impact on their careers and their lives.
After selling the company in 1987 she went on to pursue her goals as a playwright and director and once again founded two companies with a strong focus in the entertainment industry and became one of the largest film and training schools in BC. and also ran a non-profit theatre group in Vancouver and Whistler.
Her education includes a Theatre Arts program from Langara College Studio 58 and Dawson College along with multiple acting, directing and script writing workshops and intensives. With hert Westocast Actors studio she formed another company called Xtreme Entertainment which was contracted to do weekly Children's theatre showcases for Intrawest Corp. in Whistler, BC. As ongoing performances and workshops kept her busy over the next few years, she found time to write her first few feature film scripts and from one spec script she managed to get hired by Freedom Four Films in Vancouver to write a romantic comedy based on a true story and thus began Marcy's love for storytelling in a new medium. She has continud to teach personal development through acting, improvisation and entertainment industry courses at several BC schools and organizations over the years including the Vancouver Film School, Charles Stuart Modeling agency and the Westcoast Actors Studio.
After over 15 years working as an actor, playwright and director of theatre and improvisation comedy shows she ventured further into screenwriting and in 2005 founded FTX West Film and TV Expo with producer Rob Neilson. There she was instrumental once again in impacting the entertainment industry landscape and after a number of years of back breaking effort she penned several more screenplays and closed the company to pursue other business ventures. One of her scripts for TV was optioned and led to other writing assignments. During this time period she also produced writers retreats and special screenwriting workshops working with scriptwriters and authors such as Ellen Sandler ( Executive producer "Everybody Loves Raymond", "Coach") and Dara Marks, author of "Inside Story" who is also rated as the number one Hollywood script analyst by "Creative Screenwriting Magazine" each year.
Marcy is currently pitching a couple of original spec scripts for television while building a Social business with Evolv Health on a part time basis.
Building your Dream Map
Flexible Communication i identifying with different personality types
In this program you will learn new skills of communicating to the 4 different peronsality types that exist and creare instant rapport. In a matter of of a couple of hours you will have new tools at your disposal that...
