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Eugenie Bondurant is the founder of Spoken-True, an on-camera training program that enables actors, business professionals, and singers to convey their messages in a believable, clear and succinct way.
Eugenie has had a dynamic career as an on-camera coach, and a SAG/AFTRA actress for screen, television and commercials. She brought her on-camera acting program to Tampa from Los Angeles where she taught for 12 years. Along with teaching privately, she created the On-Camera Acting Program at the Patel Conservatory in 2004, where she continues to teach. Eugenie is a certified Meisner-Acting teacher, having completed studies with Larry Silverberg. She has been able to integrate her Spoken-True methodology with the Meisner Acting Technique to create a unique approach to performing. Her students have gone on to principal roles in film, television, commercials and have enrolled in prestigious theatre programs around the country.
After graduating from the University of Alabama, her career began as a photography and runway model that spanned a decade of work in America and in Europe, where she was embraced by famed fashion illustrator Eduard Erlikh as his inspirational muse. This was the platform from which she landed her first role, "Luna" in the Jackie Collins' NBC miniseries Lady Boss, for which she received rave reviews as a “Ninja Twiggy.” Some of Eugenie’s film and TV credits include Fight Club with Brad Pitt and Edward Norton; Space Truckers with Dennis Hopper; The Brooke Ellison Story, directed by Christopher Reeve; Elvis, the CBS miniseries; transvestite "Lucille" on Arli$$ with Robert Wuhl; “Ursula” on Something Wilder with Gene Wilder and Alice Cooper; a legendary appearance on Saturday Night Live with Madonna and Mike Myers; and most recently the independent film, Patsy, and Elliot Rocket, with Sharon Stone.
Personal tidbits:
- “You are beyond a singer—you are a song stylist! You take every song and make it your own.” – Amy Blake
- Along with Eugenie’s acting and coaching, you can see her performing (telling stories) as a cabaret artist in the American Songbook Series with her husband, Paul Wilborn.
- When not working, you’ll probably find her in grungy jeans and a stained t-shirt holding her cordless drill as she continues renovations on her 1920 St. Petersburg Queen Anne home.
Visit her website for more information on Eugenie and The American Songbook Series.