Alumni

Since it's inception in 1983, The Acting Studio, Inc. has trained many actors in it's acting program who have gone on to achieve impressive professional careers in film, theatre and television. Several have even won prestigious awards for acting. The following comprises only a partial listing representative of some of the alumni from the studio acting program:

Julianna Margulies (Emmy Award Winner) - IMDB - IBDB
 
  Awards

1995 Primetime Emmy Award Winner: Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series (ER)
The 62nd Annual Golden Globe Awards (2005) Nominee: Best Actress in a Mini-Series or Made for TV Movie    
Lucille Lortel Award: Ten Unknowns

  Film/TV

Canterbury’s Law, The Lost Room, Chlorine, Beautiful Ohio, Snakes On A Plane, The Sopranos, The Darwin Awards, Slingshot, Scrubs, The Grid, Hitler: The Rise Of Evil, Ghost Ship, Love Gets You Twisted, Evelyn, Jenifer, Breast Health: New Hope, The Man from Elysian Fields, The Big Day, The Mists Of Avalon Dinosaur, ER, What’s Cooking?, The Newton Boys, A Prince Above Rubies, Paradise Road Traveller, Homicide: Life on the Street, Philly Heat, Murder She Wrote (Murder at a Discount: TV Episode), Law & Order (Conduct Unbecoming: TV Episode), Out For Justice.

  Theatre

Broadway:
Festen, The 24 Hour Plays 2006, The 24 Hour Plays 2003, Escape: 6 Ways to get away
Off Broadway:
Ten Unknowns, The Vagina Monologues, Intrigue With Faye, Fefu and Her Friends, The Substance of Fire


Helen Kim - IMDB
 

  Film

Milieu, Death Proof, Grindhouse, Kill Bill: Vol 2

  Theatre

Chelsea Repertory Company: 
(2000) Minor Eccenticities (“Mooney’s Kid Don’t Cry”)
(2001) Mad Forest
Fools Pearls Productions:
(2008)On the Verge or, The Geography of Yearning,
Desdemona’s Handkerchief,


Scott Wise (Tony Award Winner) - IMDB - IBDB
 

  Awards

The 43rd Annual Tony Awards (1989). Winner Best Actor in a Musical "Jerome Robbins' Broadway"
The 50th Annual Tony Awards (1996). Nominee Best Actor in a Musical "State Fair"
The 53rd Annual Tony Awards (1999). Nominee Best Featured Actor in a Musical “Fosse

  Film/TV

Chicago, A Chorus Line

  Theatre

Broadway:
Movin’ Out, Fosse, Angela Lansbury - A Celebration, State Fair, Victor/Victoria, Damn Yankees, The Goodbye Girl, Guys and Dolls, Jerome Robbins’ Broadway, Carrie, Song and Dance, Cats, A Chorus Line.


Denise Faye - IMDB - IBDB
 

  Film/TV

“George Lopez” The Cuban Missile Crisis, The Drew Carey Show”, Chicago, American Pie 2 , The Beach Boys: An American Family, Game Day, “Martial Law” (Breakout - TV Episode) Witness to the Mob, Destination Anywhere, The Next Step, Donnie Brasco, Milk & Money, Mighty Aphrodite, Melissa

  Theatre

Broadway:
Chicago, Swinging On A Star; The Johnny Burke Musical, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Fiorello!, The Goodbye Girl, Guys and Dolls, Jerome Robbins’ Broadway, Song and Dance
As Crew: Memoirs of a Geisha (associate choreographer) Chicago (assistant choreographer) (singer: "Cell Block Tango") Annie (TV) (assistant choreographer)


Adam Rothenberg - IMDB
 

  Film/TV

Mad Money, Law and Order, “Misconceptions”, Damages, “Conviction”, Hostage, The Jury (Three Boys and a Gun – TV Episode), Coyote Beach (Actor and Producer), Modern Young Man.

  Theatre

Off Broadway:
The Wooden Breeks, Danny and the Deep Blue Sea, Birdy, Lady Windermere’s Fan, Williamstown Theatre Festival: A Streetcar Named Desire, Kennedy Center:
Finder’s Fee, A Steady Rain, The Center of Gravity, Mad Forest, I’m Really Here, Almost Like Being.

  Webpage

www.adamrothenberg.net


Ato Essandoh - IMDB
 

  Film/TV

Blood Diamond, Bloodmask, East Broadway, Conviction, Brother’s Shadow, Dawn’s Early Light, Commander In Chief, Prime, Hitch, Saving Face, Salome, Garden State, Line of Fire,  Si’Laraby, Law & Order, Chappelle’s Show, Roger Dodger, Third Watch, The Experience Box, The Accident

  Webpage www.atoessandoh.com

Larry Gilliard Jr. - IMDB
 

  Film/TV

Kill the Poor, Law & Order, CSI: NY, The Jury, Woman Hollering Creek, Maquinista, El, Brother to Brother, The Wire, Gangs of New York, Trigger Happy, Home Invaders, Sally Hemings: An American Scandal, Loving Jezebel, Simply Irresistible, The Waterboy, One Tough Cop, A Soldier’s Sweetheart, The Substitute 2: School’s Out, Next Stop Wonderland, The Associate, Trees Lounge, White Lies, Inflammable, Money Train, Lotto Land, New York Undercover, George, The Pickle, Homicide: Life on the Street, Survive the Night, In the Line of Duty: Street War, Straight Out of Brooklyn.

  Webpage http://www.myspace.com/larrygilliardjr

Fulvio Cecere - IMDB
 

  Film/TV

The Path to 9/11, Blade: The Series, The Dead Zone, Veiled Truth,, John Tucker Must Die, Puppets Who Kill, Covert One: The Hades Factor, Recipe for a Perfect Christmas, Battlestar Galactica, Cinderella Man, Tilt, Assault on Precinct 13, The Eleventh Hour, Kevin Hill, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, NTSB: The Crash of Flight 323, The Perfect Score, Paycheck, Tarzan, On Thin Ice, 1-800-Missing, Dead Like Me, Soul Food, NYPD Blue, The Invitation, Odyssey 5, Small ville, Just Cause, Taken, Witchblade, A Nero Wolfe Mystery, Damaged Care, Dead in a Heartbeat, Relic Hunter, Liberty Stands Still, Dark Angel, Earth Final Conflict, Tracker, Pretend You Don’t See Her, Black River, Replicant, Final Jeopardy, See Spot Run, Valentine, Best In Show, Beggars and Choosers, The Outer Limits, The Second Soul, Hollywood Off-Ramp, Deadlocked, The Golden Spiders: A Nero Wolfe Mystery, Mercy, Cold Squad, Harry’s Case, Mr Rock ‘n’ Roll: The Alan Freed Story, Double Jeopardy, The Hurricane, The Bone Collector, Mean Streak, Our Guys: Outrage at Glen Ridge, Millennium, The Net, Murder In a Small Town, Da Vinci’s Inquest, American Dragons, Letters from a Killer, Disturbing Behavior, JAG, The Hunted, Dirty, I Know What You Did, Outrage, Delivered, Medusa’s Child, Unwed Father, The Advocate’s Devil, Five Desperate Hours, Cloned, Excess Baggage, Breaking the Surface: The Greg Louganis Story, The Alibi, Highlander, Contagious, Echo, An unexpected Family, Night Visitors, Viper, Mother, May I Sleep With Danger?, Abducted: A Father’s Love, In the Lake of the Woods, Nowhere Man, Unforgettable, Generation X, The X-Files, Shadow of a Doubt, Jack Reed: One of Our Own, Strange Luck, Assassins, She Stood Alone: The Tailhook Scandal, Falling from the Sky: Flight 174, Dangerous Intentions, The Disappearance of Vonnie, Street Justice.

  Webpage

www.fulviocecere.com


Lauren Velez - IMDB - IBDB
 

  Film/TV

Serial, Dexter, Numb3rs, Medium, Wanted, Barely Buzzed, Strong Medicine, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Dragnet, Oz, Prison Song, Love and Treason, Prince of Central Park, The Pretender, Profiler, Law & Order, Strange World, St Michael’s Crossing, Thicker Than Blood, The LaMastas, Buscando un Sueño (aka In Search of a Dream), I Think I Do, New York Undercover, City Hall, The Cosby Mysteries, I Like It Like That.


Loraine Velez - IMDB - IBDB
 

  Film/TV

Casualty, Law & Order, Pinero.

  Theatre

Broadway:
Rent (1996), Dreamgirls
London:
Porgy and Bess


Andrea Navedo - IMDB
 

  Film/TV

El Cantate, Law & Order, Porn n’ Chicken, Washington Heights, Double Take, The Guiding Light, New York Undercover, Girl 6, One Life to Live.


Dalia Phillips - IMDB
 

  Film/TV

Akeelah and the Bee (As Actor and Associate Producer), Shattered Day, The West Wing, Strong Medicine, NYPD Blue, As the World Turns.


Josanne Hutchinson - IMDB
 

  Film/TV

Tears of the Sun.


Victor Verhaeghe - IMDB
 

  Film/TV

Get Hit, August Rush, Damages, Chapter 27, Law & Order, One Life to Live, Third Watch, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, Focus Group, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Spin City, Dead Dudes In the House.

  Webpage

www.victorverhaeghe.com


Anna Cianciulli - IMDB
 

   

Downtown: A Street Tale, Heart of Spider, Change The World.
Editor of Italian edition : Sanford Meisner On Acting

  Webpage

www.annamariacianciulli.com


Wendy Ward - IMDB
 

  Art Dept.

Session 9.


Robert Leeshock - IMDB
 

  Film/TV

One Life to Live, As The World Turns, Dead End Road, Earth: Final Conflict, The Guiding Light, Lifes Work, Empire, Beverly Hills, 90210, Elysian Fields, Me and Veronica, Loving.


Brian Straub - IMDB
 

  Film/TV

Beverly Hills, 90210, Twin Peaks.


Robin Goldwasser - IMDB
 

   

Sarah Silverman: Jesus Is Magic.

  Theater

Broadway: People Are Wrong (Writer)


Lisa Arturo - IMDB
 

  Film/TV

Machine, Garden Party, Cattle Call, 18 Fingers of Death!, Stripped Down, Bad News Bears, Eyes, Joey, One More Round, Charmed, Pretty Persuasion, Las Vegas, The Last Run, Back by Midnight, Wheelmen, American Pie 2, The Tick, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye, NYPD Blue, Walker, Texas Ranger, Annie, Katie Joplin, Running Red, Border to Border, Married With Children, Red Shoe Diaries, Bullets Over Broadway.


Richard Waterhouse - IMDB
 

  Directing Young, Single & Angry
  Acting The Bill, Courage doesn't ask

Nicolas Landry - IMDB
 

   

Hoboken Lou.


Rob DeRosa - IMDB
 

  Theater

Broadway: Landscape of the Body, A Night to Dismember, Voices.


Michael Thornton - IMDB
 

  Film/TV

The Barber Shop


Catherine Curtain - IMDB
 

  Film/TV

The Limbo Room, Suspicions, Ed's Next Move, Raising the Stakes, Sex and the City, The Next Big Thing, That Brief Moment, Third Watch, The Look, Nowhere to go but up, Neurotica, Young Gentlemen, Ham and the Hotspurs, Cricket Head, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Noise, Law & Order, The Naked Brother's Band


Luis Salgado - IMDB - IBDB
 

  Film/TV

The Great Observer, Step Up 2, Enchanted (Actor and Assistant to Associate Choreographer), Across the Universe, Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights, EGG, The Arts Show.

  Theater

Broadway:(2008) In The Heights
Off Broadway:(2007) In The Heights


Thea Mann - IMDB
 
  Producer Dirt, Daisy Does America, Talk Show Diaries
  Film/TV Mix it up, That's life, Curb your enthusiasm, Three sisters, All over the guy, Bounce, The Drew Carey Show, Ladies Man, Friends

Laurie Wilson (Now known as Alexandra Wilson) - IMDB - IBDB
 
  Film/TV Salt, Curb your enthusiasm, Ocean Park, V.I.P., Mercy Point, The Christmas Wish, Small Soldiers, The Second Civil War, High Tide, In My Sister's Shadow, Mr. & Ms. Smith, If looks could kill, One West Waikiki, University Hospital, The Round Table, Beverly Hills 90210, Homefront, Another World, Loving, Spencer on Fire, Mike Hammer.
  Theater The Farnsworth Invention

Allison Parisi - IMDB
 
  Film/TV Swingin' in the Painter's Room, Metropolitan, Midnight Caller

Nick Vergara - IMDB
 
  Film/TV American Standard, The Graduates

Jerome Vivona - IBDB
 
  Theater Curtains, Seussical, Kiss me Kate, Dream, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Guys and Dolls

Michelle O'Steen - IBDB
 
  Theater How to Succeed in Business without rally trying, Sweet Charity

Craig Innes - IBDB
 
  Theater Meet me in St. Louis, Legs Diamond, Me and My Girl

Gregory Garrison - IBDB
 
  Theater Beauty and the Beast, Jerome Robbins' Broadway, Me and My Girl

Kelly Garret - IBDB
 
  Theatre The Night That Made America Famous, Words & Music, Mother Earth

Jonathan Julian - IMDB
 
  Film/TV The District, Family Tree, The Lyon's Den, Noah's Arc, Alpha Mom, In Justice

 
     
     
     
     
     
     

 

 


 

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