Do you need self-condifence, personal empowerment, or a competitive edge as you take your next step?
Our modules teach you how to successfully pursue your dreams!
Online Programs

EXCEL Academy is a training center that has served Arkansas since 1986. We teach our students effective skills & techniques to be successful in any industry, important business information, how to market themselves.
Through specialized acting & modeling classes, we provide amazing, life-changing opportunities for local, regional, national & international representation in the entertainment industry.

Our founder, Melissa Moody, has over 45 years of experience working in the modeling and entertainment industries. Melissa started EXCEL in 1986 to share her knowledge and then 14+ years of experience with aspiring models and actors.
Melissa has written an international award winning curriculum that has been updated every 6 months with real-time industry information. We have had the privilege of teaching our students’ children and even grandchildren.
Our owner and director of the revamped programs offered by EXCEL, Summer Moody, was raised in the entertainment industry. She uses her 30 years of experience to assist aspiring actors develop their gift, build their confidence and connect them with top industry professionals in the major US markets.
Summer and Melissa have specifically crafted the modules to help each student develop the confidence and skills to not only succeed, but EXCEL in life no matter what dreams they choose to pursue.

“Many daughters have done nobly, but you EXCEL them all. Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but a woman who reveres the Lord, she will be praised.”
Proverbs 31:29-30