Host Buzz Mauro has 30 years' experience as a professional actor and acting teacher, with a specialty in applying acting techniques to "real life." He is one of the founders and Directors of The Theatre Lab School of the Dramatic Arts in Washington, DC and the author, with Deb Gottesman, of "Taking Center Stage: Masterful Public Speaking Using Acting Skills You Never Knew You Had." His coaching clients include presenters at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Geographic, the Better Business Bureau, the Inter-American Development Bank, and many other organizations, as well as individual speakers from preachers to a Miss USA.