Katie Cappiello & Charlotte Arnoux

Teaches at GoodCapp Arts

​Katie Cappiello is an award-winning theater creator and acting teacher specializing in Method-based technique training. With a drama degree from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, Katie has spent over 13 years sharing her love for theater and acting with young people worldwide, while also writing, directing and producing critically-acclaimed plays that shed light on pressing social issues. Katie has been honored by the National Women’s Hall of Fame and named one of New York’s New Abolitionists along side Meryl Streep, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and Senator John Lewis. In 2015, Katie was invited to The White House and The US Department of State to speak about the power of theater arts as a tool for policy and cultural change. In 2016, Katie launched GoodCapp Arts, a theater arts production company and training studio for young artists.

Katie is recognized by leading talent agencies and casting directors as one of the top youth acting coaches in the country. She has guided hundreds of kids and teens to countless professional successes including roles in award-winning Broadway productions, hit TV series, and blockbuster films such Mary Poppins, School of Rock, The Sound of Music, Chaplin: The Musical, The Lion King, Matilda, Billy Eliot, The Americans, Shameless, Orange is the New Black, The Good Wife, Grey’s Anatomy, Law & Order Special Victims Unit, Dark Knight Rises, Lullaby, New Year’s Eve andThe Switch. 

Katie also prepares young actors for performing arts school auditions. Her students have been accepted to LaGuardia High School, Professional Performing Arts Middle/High School, Frank Sinatra High School, The Professional Children’s School, New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, Wagner, Yale, Boston University, Juilliard, Carnegie Mellon, UCLA, USC, CalArts, Syracuse, Ithaca, Northwestern, Emerson, Rutgers, The New School, Muhlenberg College, SUNY Purchase, SUNY New Paltz, and Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London.

Charlotte Arnoux hails from Marseille, in the south of France. She is a stage and screen actress, writer, producer and teacher, with a particular penchant for New Works. Her recent credits include Word Play as part of the Midtown International Theater Festival and the Radioactive Festival; Splat Goes Your Day at the Sam French OOB Festival;The 24 Hour Plays: Nationals; the Coffee Catchups webseries; and the award-winning independent short film Absolute Threshold. Her work with Katie began as an internship in 2009 and has flourished into a passion and career. Her involvement in Katie’s unparalleled and glass-ceiling-breaking work is her proudest accomplishment in the theater.