Let It Go Acting Studio
About
Nicoleta Petcu
Acting coach for film.
She was trained by Bernard Hiller and Ivana Chubbuck in Europe and the US.
Nicoleta Petcu has founded Let It Go Acting Studio in 2015 and it is to this day the only film acting studio in
Romania using methods from the US and UK.
Nicoleta has an acting career that includes projects like the danish series DNA, feature film Borat 2, Lectii de viata series, Check-in (TV/web series) pilot, Las fierbinti series.
As a producer she has worked on - Grindcore, The poison child by Mick Davis, 48 hour film project - Knock knock, This is '88, the SF project - 115, Check-in - pilot.
She has trained actors for both TV(Umbre-HBO, Atletico Textila, Triplusec, Profu’, Las Fierbinti and Lectii de viata & Vlad-ProTv, Sacrificiul-Antena 1) and feature films(Moon Hotel Kabul, Un pas in urma serafimilor, What happened to Monday, Caini, Dragon Heart 4 and The Princess Switch) and this made her known for her methods. She has also worked as a coach with some of the cast from the Romanian stage musical Mamma Mia.
Nicoleta has been "on set acting coach" for Antena 1 production - "Iubire cu parfum de lavanda" where she coached all the cast throughout the series.
She also coached actors for projects like Spies among friends series, feature film Yellow Tie , Netflix's Subteran, Antena 1's Ana, Pro tv's Camera de justitie, Cei trimisi, feature film Libertate by Tudor Giurgiu, feature film Mammalia by Seb Mihailescu, feature film Tati full time by Letitia Rosculet and more.
Many projects with actors trained by Nicoleta have been in various festivals like TIFF, Berlinale, Sarajevo or Cannes, to name a few and up for various distinctions like Spies among friends' nomination for the BAFTAs, Libertate's 3 Gopo distinctions just to name a few.
About
Caroline Gombe
Teaching & Pedagogical Work
• Caroline is a fully-certified acting teacher in the State of New York since 2014. 
• Her teaching experience spans more than nine years (as of the date source) working in New York public and private schools. 
• Earlier in her career, she taught acting (and even drums) in middle‐school after‐school programs in the Bronx, directing end‐of‐year theatre shows. 
• She also teaches film acting and has been involved with the New York Film Academy (NYFA) summer camps.
Caroline Gombé is an internationally working actress, filmmaker, and educator with credits across film, TV, and theatre in the US and Europe. Her screen work includes Special Needs (2023), Vedic Nights (2020), What Happened to Monday? (2016), Club Dead and Janie Charismanic (Hulu 2016), Digital Physics (Amazon 2016), and a recurring role in Nickelodeon’s Alien Dawn (2013). In 2022 she appeared in the Metropolitan Opera’s acclaimed production Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk.
In 2023, after completing a directing program at NYFA, she wrote, produced, directed, and edited the short film Special Needs (post-production).
Caroline holds an MA in Acting from UCONN and a BFA from UNATC Romania. Her theatre work spans Connecticut Repertory Theatre, The Blind Trip Project (NYC), the world premiere of Train to 2010 at the Tony Award–winning Crossroads Theatre, and Ruined at Unicorn Theatre, where she became one of the few international members of Actors’ Equity.
Since 2014 she has also worked as a teaching artist, teaching acting for film at NYFA Summer Camp and in NYC public schools, covering acting technique, scene study, voice & movement, improv, audition technique, self-taping, and more.
Born in Romania with Central African Republic roots, Caroline was the first Black actress admitted to UNATC and later joined the National Theatre of Romania, performing in Chicago, The Crucible, Biloxi Blues, The Cherry Orchard, as well as various Romanian film, TV, and commercial projects.
Known for her linguistic and accent versatility, she has performed in African, Eastern European, French, and Yiddish dialects. She is fluent in Romanian, speaks French, and has beginner Spanish.
A trained dancer and singer, she previously worked at Toma Caragiu Theatre and collaborated with renowned choreographer Dianne McIntyre.