PAMA

The Professional Academy of Modeling and Acting

Celebrating our 22^nd year!

Founder Marie Hewett

Owner Gayle Cochran

The Professional Academy of Modeling and Acting (better known as PAMA) is a modeling school and full-service modeling and acting talent agency located in Huntsville, Alabama.

PAMA Inc. was founded in August of 1989 by Marie Hewett, a former model, ladies apparel buyer, merchandise manager, and fashion coordinator. She worked in the fashion industry for many years.

Gayle Cochran, with over a decade of modeling and acting experience, joined Marie as a partner in early 2004 and became the sole owner in 2009. Gayle and her associates strive to maintain professionalism in the modeling and acting fields, while searching for and promoting new talent.

PAMA’s contacts are invaluable to anyone seeking a career in modeling and acting. The agency has the expertise to help you accomplish your goals, be it self-improvement, pageant preparation, or a professional modeling or acting career.

Models and Actors with previous training or experience will be accepted into the agency by audition.

For the inexperienced model, PAMA offers six-week long workshops for teens/adults, which cover basic and advanced runway modeling, social graces, poise, skin care, makeup, hair, photography, TV commercials, and professional ethics.

We also offer preschool and preteen workshops for children starting at the age of four. In addition, private classes are available by appointment.

The PAMA Pledge Once accepted into our agency, you will be part of the PAMA family and as such will be treated like family:
	Safety	PAMA pledges to protect you and your children. PAMA will use only first names on our website to ensure that predators, identity thieves, and others who would do harm do not have easy access to you or your family. PAMA will never do business through social media sites such as Facebook which could leave you and your family vulnerable in numerous ways. Let’s all just use Facebook for fun!
	Security	PAMA’s computers and accounting systems are protected and exceed the industry leading TrustKeeper standards. PAMA protects your Personally Identifiable Information (PII) and credit data to the same information assurance standards used on Redstone Arsenal.
	Ethics & Morality	PAMA will never ask you to do anything outside of your personal beliefs or ethical standards, nor will PAMA put you in contact with strangers or persons with questionable ethical or moral standards. PAMA has a zero tolerance pornography policy. PAMA does not subscribe to the “some nudity is art” philosophy that some other agencies and photographers subscribe to. PAMA will attempt to place and book our talents only with known reputable businesses and organizations with similar ethical and moral standards.
	Self Image	PAMA pledges to operate in a manner that promotes a positive self image. PAMA will emphasize the importance of exercise and healthy eating habits, but PAMA will never recommend dangerous diets or extreme exercise regimens to get a model to their “ideal weight.” Modeling is not about weight, it’s about proportions. Unlike other regions, Huntsville is a highly commercial market where height and weight are not significant factors in getting work.
	Work	PAMA pledges to make every attempt possible to get you work. Over the last four years, payments to our talents for acting in commercials and other videos, posing for print work in newspapers, magazines, and billboards etc., have accounted for over 40% of our expenditures, higher than rent, utilities, and profit combined!
	Fun	PAMA pledges to make our workshops, photo shoots, and fashion shows safe and fun experiences. If you are not having fun, we’re doing something wrong!