Her primary focus is adapting the techniques of the great master teachers (Konstantin Stanislavski, the Method/Lee Strasberg, Sanford Meisner etc.
Highlights of her career include starring in Joyce Carol Oates' I Stand Before You Naked at the American Palace Theater, and as Paul Sorvino's wife in All the King's Men.
Among Templeton's directorial credits are the one-man shows, "The F Train" and "The Idiots Guide to Life", and the off Broadway play, "The Rise of Dorothy Hale."
According to Templeton, this kind of work not only develops the actor's camera technique, but also reinforces basic theatre training.
Templeton believes that when truth is projected onto the screen and magnified a hundred times for the actor to watch, he can very quickly make adjustments.