Past Teachers
Philip Carlson
Former agent, author and career consultant.
Craig Carnelia
Broadway Composer. Three-time
Tony Award nominee. [Sweet Smell
of Success, Working, etc.]
Sam Gold
Director. Tony winner. [Fun Home, etc.]
Marin Ireland
Actor. Tony nominee. [Reasons to Be Pretty, Hell or High Water, Sneaky Pete]
Anne Kauffman
Director. Obie Winner
Dakin Matthews
Actor (True Grit, Waitress on Broadway) Director. Dramaturg (Drama Desk Award for adaptation of Henry IV)
Adam Rapp
Playwright, screenwriter, and film director. Pulitzer Prize finalist for Red Light Winter
Simone Reynolds
Casting Director, Career Consultant & Founder of Casting Director's Guild
Ted Sluberski
Esteemed On Camera teacher and coach
Guest Speakers
David Auburn
Playwright [Proof, etc.]
Emily Bergl
Actor & cabaret singer [Shameless, Desperate Housewives, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, etc.]
Adam Bock
Playwright [Drunken City, A Small Fire, etc.]
Michael Emerson
Actor. Emmy Award Winner. [Person of Interest, Lost, etc.]
Frankie Faison
Veteran actor. Tony Award winner for Fences. TV including The Wire, Luke Cage, Banshee, etc.
Santino Fontana
Actor. Tony winner. [Tootsie, Cinderella, Crazy Ex-Girfriend]
Amy Herzog
Playwright. Pulitzer Prize winner. [4000 Miles, etc.]
Jayne Houdyshell
Actor. Three-time Tony nominee. [Well, Follies, The Humans]
Judith Ivey
Actor. Two-time Tony award winner.
Cherry Jones
Actor. Two-time Tony Award winner & Five-time nominee. [24, Transparent)
Terry Kinney
Actor and Director. Steppenwold Theatre founder. [Oz, etc.)
Neil LaBute
Playwright and filmmaker. Reasons to Be Pretty [Tony nominated Best Play], The Shape of Things, etc. Films: In the Company of Men, Nurse Betty, etc.]
Florencia Lozano
Actor, TV (regular on Narcos). Extensive stage career. Labyrinth Theater.
Bruce Norris
Playwright. Pulitzer Prize and Tony winner. [Clybourne Park, etc.]
Larry Pine
Veteran actor. Obie Award winner. Broadway. TV: House of Cards, etc.
Carrie Preston
Actor. Emmy Award winner. [The Good Wife, True Blood, etc.]
Lois Smith
Esteemed actor. Tony nominee.
Sarah Steele
Actor [Humans on Broadway,
etc.]
Acclaimed film and stage actor and Academy Award winner.
Mark Wing-Davey
Director. Former head of NYU Grad Acting.