ABOUT GIA FORAKIS
OTOA™ & CLP™ Founder & Master Teacher/Coach
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Gia Forakis
Gia Forakis
Founder & Master Teacher:
Founder & Master Teacher:
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Theater Artist, Playwright, Producer and Theater Director:
Gia brings 20 years of teaching and coaching to her practice.
Gia brings 20 years of teaching and coaching to her practice.
Creative Life Practice
Creative Life Practice
is the Practice of Creating our Lives
is the Practice of Creating our Lives
Using the Creative Process.
Using the Creative Process.
About Gia
About Gia
Gia Forakis is the Founder and Master Teacher of One-Thought-One-Action (OTOA)™, and the Founder and Master Teacher of Creative Life Practice (CLP)™.
She holds an MFA from Yale School of Drama (where she developed the OTOA technique), and a BFA from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.
Gia also holds a Certificate in Radical Compassion and a Teaching Certificate in Mindfulness Meditation.
In addition to being recognized for CLP and OTOA, Gia is well known as a theater artist, playwright, producer, and recognized as a professional freelance theater director, working locally out of NYC, as well as nationally and internationally.
She is the Artistic Director of Gia Forakis & Company (GF&CO) a company dedicated to the development and application of OTOA as a tool for experimentation and education through art, ritual, and performance.
Gia is a member of SDC (Stage Directors and Choreographers Society). She has had the great good fortune to direct plays and teach OTOA and CLP across the United States, and around the globe.
She has been nominated for the prestigious Zelda Fichandler Award, and received a nomination for a New York Innovative Theater Award for Outstanding Theater Direction, and a BroadwayWorld Award nomination for Best Director of a Play. She has received a Mary Jean Parson's Award (for directing studies) and a Paulette Goddard Award (for acting).
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Gia explains the origins of CLP and how OTOA grew from a Performance Technique into Creative Life Practice
Gia explains the origins of CLP and how OTOA grew from a Performance Technique into Creative Life Practice
As a theater maker, director and playwright, I developed and founded the One-Thought-One-Action (OTOA)™ performance technique over 20 years ago while in graduate school at Yale School of Drama.
As a theater maker, director and playwright, I developed and founded the One-Thought-One-Action (OTOA)™ performance technique over 20 years ago while in graduate school at Yale School of Drama.
Over time it became clear to me that the same principles used in the OTOA performance technique that bring clarity and enrichment to the staged event, are equally as valuable when applied to our lives off the stage.
Over time it became clear to me that the same principles used in the OTOA performance technique that bring clarity and enrichment to the staged event, are equally as valuable when applied to our lives off the stage.
By combining OTOA's incremental focus with the 6 Aspects of the creative process I discovered a more vivid and dynamic sense of self, greater clarity of thought and action, more clearly defined objectives, a sense of purpose, and a more unified view of my life.
By combining OTOA's incremental focus with the 6 Aspects of the creative process I discovered a more vivid and dynamic sense of self, greater clarity of thought and action, more clearly defined objectives, a sense of purpose, and a more unified view of my life.
CLP is my invitation for you to approach your own life with wisdom, curiosity, and an open heart.
CLP is my invitation for you to approach your own life with wisdom, curiosity, and an open heart.
Thank you for your interest and for embarking on the practice of creating your life.
Thank you for your interest and for embarking on the practice of creating your life.
- Gia Forakis,
OTOA & CLP Founder, Master Teacher & Coach
Brooklyn, NY, USA
Tinos, GREECE, 2025
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