Founder & Master Teacher:

• One-Thought-One-Action (OTOA)™

• Creative Life Practice (CLP)™

• Performance Technique & Training (PTT)™

• OTOA CLP Private Coaching

Gia has been teaching, coaching , and practicing OTOA for over 16 years.

Gia Forakis is the Founder and Master Teacher of One-Thought-One-Action (OTOA)™. She is also a theater artist, recognized as a professional freelance stage director, working locally out of NYC, regionally, and internationally, with well regarded credits as a playwright, performer, producer, educator, visual artist, and Creative Life Practice private coach.

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.

She holds an MFA from Yale School of Drama in Directing, and a BFA from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, Graduate Acting. Since receiving her Masters Degree in 2004, her primary focuses have been in the development and application of OTOA, and as a professional Theater Artist.

Gia is a member of SDC (Stage Directors and Choreographers Society). She has had the great good fortune to direct plays and teach OTOA across the United States, and around the globe.

Gia has been nominated for the prestigious Zelda Fichandler Award, and received a New York Innovative Theater Award nomination for Outstanding Theater Direction. She has received a Mary Jean Parson's Award (for directing studies) and a Paulette Goddard Award (for acting). www.GiaForakis.com

During the last 16-18 years that I have been continuing to develop, teach , and practice One-Thought-One-Action (OTOA) as a performance technique, along the way it became clear to me that the same OTOA-principles that bring clarity and enrichment to the staged event are equally as meaningful when applied to individual growth.

By applying these same principles that I was teaching in OTOA Performance Technique & Training, and using the same skills necessary to prepare the dramaturgy and direction of a theater project, to to the daily practice in my own life, I discovered personal, professional, and creative benefits with wide ranging results.

Essentially, what I was doing was creating my life as if it were any other art, theater, or creative project. And it was through studying my own process, that I saw the benefits of how I could bring the tools used in all creative goals, and the principles of OTOA's incremental thought and action into a wider range of application that would benefit both artists and NON-artists alike.

It was with this intention that I developed the curriculum of OTOA Creative Life Practice (CLP).

What OTOA Creative Life Practice offers is an approach for untangling professional, personal or creative roadblocks. It offers a set of tools and principles for clarifying goals & objectives while also creating the practice of your . OTOA CLP expands our vision & our realms of possibility. It’s a fundamental support system designed to chart a more unified and fulfilling path forward in every field and for any endeavor

- Gia Forakis,

OTOA Founder & Master Teacher

Brooklyn, (Updated ) 2022