Ken Wilder - Meisner Technique, Scene Study
Is an actor, director and teacher who received his MFA in Theater Arts from Mason Gross School of the Arts under the guidance of William Esper and Maggie Flanigan. Ken has been coaching actors for years, helping actors prepare for auditions in commercials, television and film. He's been making a living as an actor for over six years with appearances in over twenty-five commercials and over thirty appearances in episodic television such as Las Vegas, The West Wing, CSI, Desperate Housewives, Without A Trace and House M.D., to name a few.
Alex (Sandy) Egan - Meisner Technique
Alex Egan is graduate of Occidental College where he received his bachelor's degree in Theater. He completed an internship at New York's famed Circle Repertory Company and completed the two-year Meisner program with William Esper at the Willam Esper Studio. He has appeared in many Los Angeles area productions at theaters including the Odyssey Theater Ensemble and South Coast Repertory. He was a member of The Groundlings Sunday Company and with Acme Comedy Company. He also received a Master's degree in Social Work from the University of Southern California.
Zina Camblin - Technique Series
Zina Camblin recently completed a residency at The Juilliard School under Marsha Norman and Christopher Durang, as a part of the Juilliard Playwrighting Fellowship. While at Juilliard, she received the Lecomte du Nouy Prize for playwrighting. Her most recent play, a comedic two-hander titled, And Her Hair Went With Her, was selected as part of Lincoln Centers Directors Lab play reading series and enjoyed a successful reading as a part of the Lab. Zina is a native of Cincinnati and received her MFA in Acting from UC San Diego where she was also a recipient of a San Diego Playbill Award for Best Actress. As an actor, she appeared at the LaJolla Playhouse in The Colored Museum, Bash, and Thoroughly Modern Millie. Off Broadway credits include, I Think I Like Girls, and Kate Crackernuts. She was also featured in a television pilot for Disney. She is currently living in Los Angeles and working on a development project with NBC. More info available on her website: www.andherhair.com
Damona Resnick - On-Camera Audition Technique
Damona Resnick is currently the executive in charge of NBC’s Talent Diversity Initiative. She is also responsible for creating programs, events, scholarships, internships, and mentoring programs to promote and sustain on-camera diversity for NBC. She also serves as a casting executive overseeing the casting process on various NBC series and pilots. She has worked in casting for Paramount, CBS and Chemin Bernard, working on such shows as Becker, JAG, Girlfriends, Moesha and Frasier.
Robert Duncan - On Camera, Meisner Intensive
Mr. Duncan is a professional actor and filmmaker. He also teaches the fundamentals of the Meisner Technique in the School of Film and Video - Character Animation Dept. at California Institute of the Arts (CalArts). He has lectured at Columbia University and at New York University’s SCPS film program on “directing actors for camera. Robert graduated from the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York City where he studied under Sanford Meisner. he was a member of circle repertory’s theatre lab and also worked as an actor in the director’s unit of the actors studio. He performed many stage roles throughout the U.S. and Canada and has been seen in a number of television guest star roles. He apprenticed as understudy to John Malkovich in Burn This at the Mark Taper Forum and was given a Los Angeles Dramalogue Critics Award for best dramatic actor for his work in Judevine. Robert acted the role of live-action reference for John Smith in Disney’s Pocahontas.
Richard Robichaux: Meisner Technique
Richard Robicaux has performed in theatres across the United States including the Mark Taper Forum, Yale Repertory Theatre, the Shakespeare Theatre in Washington, DC. In New York, he starred in the off-Broadway smash hit, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: Abridged and has worked on several premieres, both here and in London. Other credits include works at the Sundance Film Festival, Tribeca Film Festival and numerous roles on television including several national commercials. As a teaching artist, Richard has worked with many of the top training programs in the country including the Juilliard School, Yale School of Drama, and New York Conservatory. He has coached actors for film, television and theatre both in Los Angeles and New York and is a frequent guest speaker at thespian festivals and universities across the country. Richard received his MFA from Rutgers University where he studied under acclaimed acting teachers William Esper and Maggie Flanigan.
Tina Morasco: Voice Over Technique
Tina Morasco brings a unique blend of industry and artistry to her voiceover instruction having been an agent at ICM VOICEOVER - NY and then having received her MFA in Acting from Bill Esper's Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University. Since graduation in 1999, Tina has been in Los Angeles working steadily in television, film and of course...voiceover acting and coaching. Voiceover clients include: Florida Orange Juice, Epson Printers, Mission Tortillas, Suzuki, Lincoln-Mercury, Cranium, Legoland and the San Diego Zoo, among many others.
Jordana Oberman: Technique Series
Jordana is an Actor, Producer, and Teacher. She received her Master's Degree in Performance Studies from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts where she studied under Anna Deavere Smith and Richard Schechner. She has been working professionally in New York City and Los Angeles for the past 8 years as an actor on the Stage and in Film and Television. Recently Ms. Oberman received the New York honor for Best Actress from the esteemed "Spotlight On" awards. Teaching with Roundabout Theatre Company in New York City, South Coast Repertory Theatre and the Elizabeth Mestnik Acting School in Los Angeles she has inspired artists all over the country within the craft and business of Acting. Also, the VP of Development of the independent film company, Apple Cart Productions.
Elizabeth Mestnik - Studio Founder and Director: The Meisner Technique, Master Class, Beginning Acting, and Scene Study
Elizabeth Mestnik is an award winning, actress, director and teacher, who has coached such renowned actors as Ed Asner, Fred Savage, and Sharif Atkins in both New York City and Los Angeles and is on the referral coaching lists of numerous agents and managers. Her directing credits have garnered critical acclaim. The L.A. Times called her direction “dazzling” and “magical”. – She will be featured in Wrestling with Angels, the upcoming documentary on Tony Kushner by Academy Award winning documentarians Frieda Lee Mock and Terry Sanders.
She received her MFA in Acting from Rutgers University under the tutelage of William Esper, Sandy Meisner’s associate at the Neighborhood Playhouse for over 17 years, and New York’s leading Meisner teacher. Mr. Esper highly recommended her as a teacher saying, “Elizabeth is a first rate and versatile teacher, compelling, intelligent and dedicated, with a clear method that leads others to bring their ideas to light. I cannot say enough good things about her.” She has taught at Rutgers University and Chapman University as well as various private studios before starting her own studio in February of 2001. Her students have worked in theater, film and television, including performances on ER, Law and Order, Six Feet Under, 4400, Everybody Loves Raymond, Arrested Development, The Office, Medium, 24, According to Jim, Still Standing, 40 Year Old Virgin, Dr. Doolittle 2, X-Men, Broadway, off-Broadway, West Coast Ensemble, Cincinnati Playhouse, The El Portal, The Tiffany Theater, The Pasadena Playhouse, Taper Too!, Shakespeare Orange County and many others.
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