Liberate Your Work.
Reclaim Your Power.
Find Your Play.
A community for actresses.
We help you show up to auditions as yourself,
not a performance of yourself,
and book more work because of it.
Together.
Because you didn’t get into this business to suffer through it.
A creative home for actresses who want less pressure, more play, deeper work, and awesome women who'll cheer them on every step of the way.
Built and held by Aliyah O'Brien and Priscilla Faia, two working actresses with 35+ combined years, 4 series regular roles, and 95+ IMDb credits between them.
Aliyah is an ICF-certified somatic empowerment coach, and Priscilla is an acting coach like no other, the kind who gets you out of your head and into truthful, instinctive work.
They created the space they needed and never had.
Real Talk.
You didn't become an actress to spend your life wondering if you're enough.
Or to obsess over every self-tape.
Or to twist yourself into whatever you think casting wants.
You became an actress because you loved to play.
Because telling stories made you feel alive.
Because stepping into someone else's shoes somehow brought you closer to yourself.
But sometimes, this industry has a way of pulling you out of your instincts.
You start second-guessing instead of trusting.
Comparing instead of creating.
Performing instead of playing.
And before you know it, the thing you once loved starts to feel heavy.
Here's what we've learned after years in this business:
The answer isn't to work harder.
The answer isn't another acting technique.
The answer isn't hustling until you burn yourself out.
It's creating the conditions where your best work can actually happen.
A regulated nervous system.
A creative process you trust.
Women in your corner who remind you that you're not crazy …and you're definitely not alone.
Because what most of us don't need is more pressure.
We need more joy.
More truth.
More courage.
More play.
The kind of play that makes you forget you're trying to "get it right."
The kind that reminds you why you fell in love with acting in the first place.
Welcome to The Liberated Actress Playground
This is where you come home to the part of you that started it all. The girl who loved to pretend, to imagine, to take up space, to feel everything.
A global community of actresses learning that a regulated nervous system and trusted instincts are the real technique, the kind that gets real results in work and life.
Member Love
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"I could talk about the Liberated Actress Playground all day long. What Aliyah and Priscilla have created here goes way beyond just a class or a meeting space or a community. I found LAP at a hard time in my career, and it was like a port in a storm. From my very first meeting, I saw I wasn't alone, my feelings had value, and my story mattered. I was given a safe space to be open and vulnerable with other actresses I admired and respected, who echoed the same feelings back to me. Each time I engage with this group, I feel empowered, supported, and filled up with the juiciest energy that sends me into whatever I'm navigating with more confidence and self worth. This community has become my lifeline when things get hard, and the growth I've seen in myself, personally and creatively, is immeasurable. LAP is a tool I wish I'd had my whole career. If you're seeking a way to grow, explore, connect, or get back in touch with the artist you know yourself to be, I cannot recommend it enough. If you're scared or unsure, I get it. But trust me, take the leap. We'll catch you.”
Crystal Balint, Actress
Midnight Mass, The Bletchley Circle: San Francisco, Supergirl
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"This is the community I was dreaming of creating, and Priscilla and Aliyah built it more beautifully than I ever could have. It's non-negotiable for me every month, like paying my hydro bill. Working with Priscilla, I leave every session feeling full, creative, and excited to send my audition to my agent. Working with Aliyah has been life-changing, she's held space while I've had download after download about how I actually want to live my life. I leave feeling more aligned, more honest, more like myself. Real connection, real support, a true cheerleading squad. LAP has made me show up fully in my life and feel less alone in this industry than I ever have. This space feels like home.”
Luvia Petersen, Actress
Continuum, Ghost Wars, Riverdale
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"This is a beautiful magical online playground to shake it all off and play. Without judgement or expectation. Where we can talk to each other as humans first. Not just actors. I love that we can come together to dance and meditate and also do actor things like work on auditions or help each other out with a self tape. Without the pressure of needing to be better or get anything right or impress anyone. I love that it’s not just about “the work”. Yes, the work is supported and nurtured, but the human is supported and nurtured first."
Jordana Largy - Actress
Monster Trucks, The Good Doctor Chesapeake Shores
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"The Liberated Actresses Playground is an incredible opportunity to work (and play!) with Aliyah and Priscilla - two of the most open-hearted, joy-seeking, generous humans I know...and who are even MORE magical together. If you're craving community with kind, passionate women, L.A.P. is a place you will feel lit up and supported. Thank you, Aliyah and Priscilla, for creating this safe, loving space for actresses to be seen and heard. To laugh, cry, and always end with a virtual dance party."
Alison Wandzura, Actress
Van Helsing, Godzilla, The Good Doctor
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“The first month of this experience has already been transformative. Aliyah & Priscilla have really cultivated this extremely safe space for actors to get back to themselves. It’s brought me back to why I wanted to do this whole thing (acting) in the first place.”
Katrina Reynolds, Actress
Fire Country, Family Law, Firefly Lane, Batwoman
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“It feels pretty cool to re-figure out what makes something “mine” and what I bring to the table, rather than being stuck in a headspace of “never enough-ness”. But for the first time in FOREVER I feel like I’ve actually been given some tools to help me do that!!! And got to witness it in action with Priscilla’s spotlight coaching.”
Holly Hawkins, Actress
Balestra, Iron City
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“I’m just happy to be here. There’s so much to learn and so much life to live and this feels like a really safe place to do that. I got way too far into no pain no gain #grindset and now I get to rediscover play! Being here is like discovering that there’s this mysterious secret to life...talking about things…with other women. I had to lie down after our first zoom call because I was like “Oh! There’s a hole in my heart! Nice!”
Laura Cegarra, Actress
Earrings
What you’ll find inside:
This is the heart of the Playground, a private, intentional space where actresses connect beyond the noise of social media.
What happens here:
Honest conversations about the craft and the business without comparison or competition.
A space to share wins, ask for feedback, or get support on tough days.
Twice-monthly Coffee & Cards and Cocktails & Cards gatherings, our favorite kind of alive. We check in on each other, share wins, challenges, and whatever's on our minds and hearts, then pull an oracle card and do a little meditation to tune in. A chance to align with your intuition and your highest self, plus it's so dang fun.
Opportunities to collaborate on self-tapes, creative projects, and workshops.
Weekly discussion threads and community challenges that keep you creatively inspired.
Laughter, tears, and real transformation.
Every one of them starts in the same place: you.
Some months that looks like sharpening your audition game. Other months we're elbow-deep in your nervous system, figuring out why your body braces before a self-tape. Sometimes it's the relationship pattern you keep bringing to set, and to life. It's never really separate. It's all the same you, getting freer, babe.
What happens here:
Live workshops with Aliyah and Priscilla, working through craft, mindset, nervous system, and relationships together, no script, real transformation in real time.
Guest interviews with industry professionals : actors, coaches, and healers who understand the artistic journey from the inside out.
Every session recorded and saved to the Vault, so you're never stuck choosing between showing up live and showing up for your life.
The Vault
Coaching & Courses
Everything you've ever needed, right when you need it.
The ever-expanding digital library of resources, replays, meditations, and tools designed to help you reconnect with yourself and your art.
What you’ll find inside:
Video lessons & replays from past workshops and guest sessions.
Guided practices in breathwork, embodiment, and nervous system regulation.
Resource PDFs & audio meditations to support your creative process anywhere, anytime
Where craft meets your next level.
Structured, transformational course experiences for the actress who's ready to take her craft, and her sense of self, deeper.
What we offer:
The Aligned Actor: Acting From the Inside Out (included free with every membership, a $155 value) - our signature 4-week self-paced course for actresses who crave deeper connection to self while crafting truthful, grounded performances.
Self-Tape Sorcery: Making Magic in the Ring Light Era - transform your self-tapes from routine to riveting, bringing life, truth, and spontaneity into the frame, from wherever you are.
CEO of Your Career: Leading Your Reps with Authority & Alignment - step into your power as the creative leader of your own career. Redefine what it means to be “represented,” build aligned relationships with your agents and managers, and lead with clarity, confidence, and self-trust.
Coaching with Our Founders - exclusive access to private 1:1 sessions with Aliyah & Priscilla, at a special discounted rate as a member.
Deep Dive Workshops
Community
Your Membership
Everything you need to reconnect with your craft, your instincts, and yourself, all in one place.
Monthly Deep Dive Workshops with our founders and special guests, craft, mindset, nervous system, relationships, all of it.
Twice-monthly Coffee & Cards and Cocktails & Cards gatherings, real connection, real vulnerability, real intuition building, real fun.
Full access to the Vault, resources, meditations, and every workshop recorded, from “Less Acting, More Truth” to “The Industry Isn't Fair, Now What?”, yours to revisit anytime.
The Aligned Actor Course, included free, a $155 value.
A community of amazing actresses in your corner, cheering you on.
One price. The whole toolkit.
And if it's not for you?
We'll refund you in full within your first 30 days, no questions asked.
$55 usd/ MONTH
Meet the Team
Priscilla Faia
Founder
Aliyah O’Brien
Founder
Upcoming Events
In The Media
YVR Screen Scene Podcast
Sabrina is joined in the podcast studio by two powerhouse actresses who are uplifting women in film via their new project, the Liberated Actresses Playground: Aliyah O’Brien and Priscilla Faia. In this rambunctious and at times emotional conversation (facilitated by vodka soda and the “airport drinking” paradigm), Aliyah and Priscilla discuss what it means to be a liberated actress, how their friendship has helped them navigate this sometimes unfriendly industry, and why women are stronger when we stand together
Booked & Busy Podcast
Aliyah O'Brien and Priscilla Faia talk about their creative journeys, their beautiful bond and the birth of their new venture, The Liberated Actress Playground. We talk all about finding freedom and play as actors, the beauty of balance and the importance of community. The Liberated Actress Playground (aka the L.A.P) was born out of the need for a safe space for artists and the holistic approach to life and acting, encouraging women to embrace their journeys and live fully!!
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