Meet your coaches
Mikaela Lily Davies / actor, writer, director, coach (AACE)
Mikaela Lily Davies is an actor, coach, director and creator. She is a graduate of the CBC Canadian Film Centre's Acting Conservatory, has performed in eight shows with Soulpepper Theatre and spent four seasons at The Stratford Festival (“Davies is doing the best acting work on view at Stratford this year.” -The Chicago Tribune.) Mikaela is the inaugural recipient of the Jon Kaplan Canadian Stage Performer Award, she holds a Sterling nomination for Outstanding Comedic Performance for the titular role Miss Bennet at The Citadel Theatre and a META nomination for Outstanding Supporting Performance for her work as Bess in The Last Wife at The Centaur. She is a two time finalist for the Cayle Chernin Media Award and has worked as a dramaturg across Canada. Mikaela has been coaching actors successfully on their film/tv auditions for the past decade, helping them book projects for NBC/Global, Hulu, Netflix, Warner Brothers, Lionsgate Television, Oprah Winfrey Network, Prime Video, MGM, CBC, Lifetime and many others. She boasts one of the highest booking rates in Toronto. She has taught text analysis at the Canadian Film Centre, acting on camera at Armstrong Studios and currently runs her own coaching business as well as LEVEL UP with one of her favourite people, Kimberly-Sue Murray.
Founding Member of Level Up Auditions
Kimberly-Sue Murray / actor, filmmaker, audition coach (AACE)
Actor Kimberly-Sue Murray (CFC, 2011) is best known for her recurring roles in the hit TV show SHADOWHUNTERS (Netflix), the vampire drama V-WARS (Netflix) and THE BOYS (Amazon). Her stellar performance in XYZ Films’ TRADER, a single-room/single-actor psychological thriller, earned her an award for Best Lead Performance in a Feature Film (HIFF 2022) and a ACTRA Award nomination. Her most recent theatrical release, DIE ALONE, starring Carrie-Anne Moss and Frank Grillo (Sitges’ Midnight X-Treme Audience Award) hit Paramount+/Crave last Fall. Murray also starred in series’ such as THE MADNESS (NETFLIX), TITANS (HBO Max), and TRANSPLANT (NBC), to name a few.
Murray's performance as Gamora in 2021’s MARVEL'S GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY Video Game (Eidos-Montréal) also received rave reviews winning BEST ENSEMBLE CAST PERFORMANCE at the G.A.N.G. Awards (2021).
Upcoming projects include a leading role in indie feature FOREIGN TONGUE directed by Boris Mojsovski, a recurring in the Netflix series FINDING HER EDGE, and supporting role in LOVE IS THE MONSTER by horror director Alex Noyer (Sound of Violence, SXSW Film Fest).
Murray is a prolific creator, writing and starring in the award winning short films, SHE CAME KNOCKING (Best Short, CFF17 & Brian Linehan Actors Award, 2018), PURL (2018) and WEREWOMAN, a viral web series pilot that garnered over 1 million views worldwide.
Since 2012, Murray has helped hundreds of actors book work and rekindle their love for auditioning with her business KSM Self-Tapes & Audition Coaching. She now runs LEVEL UP with best friend and actor Mikaela Lily Davies.
Founding Member of Level Up Auditions
Alex Weiner / actor, filmmaker, audition coach
Alex Weiner is a BAFTA-nominated actor best known for his portrayal of Rocket Raccoon in the AAA video game Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy. Alex provided full performance capture and voiceover for the role and his performance was met with critical acclaim, garnering him BAFTA, CGN, and DICE nominations as well as ACTRA and GANG Awards wins.
Over his varied career, Alex has appeared in such productions as Spike TV’s Blue Mountain State, Canadian Stage’s Five Faces for Evelyn Frost, Bravo’s Carter, Kim Nguyen’s The Hummingbird Project, and Ramiro Belanger’s ClydeCynic, where his performance as the titular Clyde Nelson was received with wide acclaim, the film winning numerous awards world-wide.
In 2017 Alex starred in the TV pilot Fugazi, co-created with long-time collaborator Jesse Camacho. Alex's portrayal of Jimmy Basso earned him a 2019 ACTRA award nomination for Best Actor. In 2020, Alex and Jesse co-founded Camacho Weiner Inc, a film company focused on screenplays and story, and are currently in development for their upcoming series Oscar's Oscar, which was accepted under the Bell Fund Development Grant in 2023.
Alex is currently working on numerous confidential AAA video game projects set to be released in 2025/26. You can also see him in Nick Butler's upcoming sophomore feature film, The Legacy of Cloudy Falls.