We are located in the Decatur neighborhood of Atlanta. We have been in business for over 5 years and have deep ties within Atlanta’s entertainment industry. Our passion is teaching the craft of acting and empowering actors to be the strongest and happiest versions of themselves.
Natalia Livingston
“Natalia’s real life experience is invaluable. She can provide a bridge between Atlanta (or any town) and Hollywood in a way most people can’t. She lives to tell the tale.”
Alex Yarosh, Head of Talent, The Gersh Agency
Natalia is an Emmy Award Winning Actress, Television Producer, and Founder/Owner of Actor Boutique. A contract player on ABC’s General Hospital, she starred in over 900 episodes. She also starred in over 50 episodes of NBC’s Days of Our Lives, motion pictures, tv movies for Lifetime and other networks, and national commercials. Natalia was recently nominated for her second Emmy Award in a new category – Outstanding Supporting Actress – New Approach in a Drama Series.
In addition to her television and film work, Natalia has a long list of stage credits ranging from Chekhov to original works from LA’s most notable theaters. Natalia resides in Atlanta and Los Angeles where she has expanded her professional portfolio to include producing for major television networks. Natalia pitched and produced her own television concept/show at National Geographic Channel and co-executive produced the Gasoline Films and PBS documentary “The Man Who Ate New Orleans.” Most recently, Natalia produced a documentary with Writers Without Margins, members of The Kennedy Family, James Wahlburg of the famous Wahlburg brothers, and Oscar Award Winning Director Larry Schiller.
Natalia is a celebrity guest on The View, CNN, The Tyra Banks Show, Access Hollywood, Entertainment Tonight, among many others. Her career has been reported in Marie Claire, Good Housekeeping, Hollywood Reporter, and dozens of front-page covers for ABC Soaps and Soap Opera Digest.
Natalia is a Georgia native who received her early training at North Carolina School of the Arts and Emory University. In Los Angeles, she studied with master acting teachers Bobby Lyons (Parker Posey, Ray Liotta), Steve Helgoth, Ivana Chubbuck (Halle Berry, Charlize Theron), Margie Haber (Heather Locklear, Colin Egglesfield), Warner Loughlin (Amy Adams), and Candy Kanieki. Natalia is a Guest Lecturer at Emory University’s Goizueta Business School in the field of Entrepreneurship in Entertainment and Arts Management. Natalia’s charity involvement has included Mother Teresa’s Home for the Dying and Children’s Orphanage in Calcutta, India. Natalia is represented by People Store and The Cartel Management Company.
Rick Hearst
Actor Boutique is thrilled to have Rick Hearst join our adult division. Rick has created countless roles from the ground up and is a 3 time Emmy Award Winning and multiple Emmy Nominated Actor who has the unique perspective of having been on both sides of the ladder of success. Rick holds the distinction of having worked on all 3 major television networks, both primetime and daytime, as a series regular as well as numerous guest stars.
Rick was formally trained on scholarship at The University of Texas at Austin in their B.F.A. Acting Program and the prestigious Circle In The Square Theatre’s Acting Conservatory in New York City where he was exposed to an incredible cross section of acting philosophies including Stanislavski, Meisner, Uta Hagen, and Strasberg to name a few. While there, Rick worked closely with instructors and industry professionals working at top tiers of the theatrical world. Drawing on years of applying these techniques in his own career, Rick was able to find in himself the blend of his own process that incorporated philosophy and practicality. He believes acting is the ability of an individual to identify and bring to life the truth in a character. He uses this belief to guide aspiring and veteran actors to discover their own organic, authentic, and unique process to create full, complex, and engaging characters.
As a working actor for over 30 years in the film and television industry, Rick knows the everyday challenges that make the difference between success and failure in the “business” of acting. Rick has been in “the trenches” of the day-to-day work demands required of the actor as well as experienced the rewards of celebrity. Rick’s intimate experience within the mediums of film, television, and stage and being able to create success in each has given him the ability to share with his students the nuances and key elements that will separate them from the pack.