ACTING & FILM SCHOOL

Recent Guest Speakers

Kevin Kline, Actor
Fish Called Wanda, Dave,
The Ice Storm, In & Out

Glenn Close, Actress
Dangerous Liaisons,
Fatal Attraction

Mira Nair , Director
Monsoon Wedding,
Mississippi Masala

Lou Diamond Phillips,
Director, Actor
La Bamba, Stand and Deliver,
Courage Under Fire,
Young Guns

MIKE FENTON,
Casting Director
Chinatown, American Graffiti,
The Godfather Part II,
ET, Blade Runner & 200 others

PAUL SCHRADER,
Screenwriter
Raging Bull, Taxi Driver,
The Last Temptation of Christ,
American Gigolo

BARBARA DE FINA,
Producer
Goodfellas, Cape Fear,
The Last Temptation of Christ,
The Age of Innocence

BRETT RATNER, Director
Rush Hour 1,2 & 3,
Family Man, X-men 3

JOEL SCHUMACHER, Director
Flatliners, Batman Forever,
Phone Booth

PAUL HAGGIS, Writer, Director
Crash, Million Dollar Baby,
Flags of Our Fathers

TED HOPE, Producer
The Ice Storm, In the Bedroom,
21 Grams, American Splendor,
The Savages

JON VOIGHT, Actor
Midnight Cowboy,
Runaway Train, The Rainmaker

JANEANE GAROFALO
Actress
Reality Bites,
Truth About Cats & Dogs

MATTHEW MODINE, Actor
Full Metal Jacket,
Married to the Mob, Birdy

MARY KAY PLACE, Actress
Being John Malkovich,
The Big Chill, Big Love

GABRIEL BYRNE, Actor
Usual Suspects,
Miller's Crossing,
Enemy of the State

STEPHEN RIVELE, Writer
Copying Beethoven

THELMA SCHOONMAKER,
Editor
The Departed, Goodfellas,
Raging Bull

GEORGE GALLO, Writer
Midnight Run, Wise Guys,
The Whole Ten Yards,
Bad Boys

STEVEN RAPHAEL,
Industry Executive
Ballast, La Vie En Rose,
The Visitor, Pan's Labyrinth,
Maria Full of Grace

EVA KOLODNER, Producer
Boys Don't Cry

PAUL RACHMAN, Director
American Hardcore, Memories,
Drive Baby Drive, Home,
Bang Bang, Zoe XO

TOM QUINN,
Writer, Director ...
The New Year Parade

MATT WOLF, Director
Wild Combination:
A Portrait of Arthur Russell

H. H. COOPER,
Assistant Director
My Blueberry Nights

DAVID PATERSON,
Screenwriter
Bridge to Terabithia

MAUREEN RYAN,
Producer
Man On Wire