Liam Miller, current TVI Young Actors Academy Los Angeles member just signed with Origin Talent for exclusive representation.
Liam is pictured here with his recent classmates from TVI Young Actors Professional Camp. He’s the dude in the blue shirt — the one making sure he’s in the front row. Liam’s going to do just fine in front of the camera.
TVI Member, Kerri-Anne Lavin, just booked a National commercial for Little Caesars Pizza. Kerri-Anne, a former Main Stage Performer for The Second City, was cast for her comedy prowess. Congrats, Kerri! You deserve a slice of pizza!
Congratulations to Therese Plummer, Carolyn Morrison and Brian Anthony Wilson who all booked principal roles on Law & Order: SVU. They were all called in after taking Jonathan Strauss‘ very popular class at TVI Actors Studio. Watch for them in the upcoming new season.
Stephanie Cassetta, New York TVI Actors Studio Youth Member, is one of the vocalists on the Kidz Bop Cd’s, Volumes 10 through 14. This talented young actor has done various voiceovers for books on tape and Nickelodeon, and most recently participated in The Young Actor’s Professional Camp.
Marilyn Glasser and Claudia Black of Glasser/Black Management just signed up to teach an innovative Sunday class at TVI. This is an amazing opportunity to learn first hand from two very respected New York managers in a classroom setting. The class will be full of personal attention, with only 14 spots total!
TVI staff member Meredith Suttles just returned from South Africa where she spent 2 weeks of signing. Her choral group “Total Praise” sang and recorded with the JL Zwane Siyaya Choir whose mission is to support HIV/AIDS education through music, dance, and song. Welcome home.
Three days in Las Vegas at New Media Expo makes a young man hungry. The Acting school’s webmaster David Danforth took it all in at Caesars Palace Hotel all you can eat buffet.
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Tuesday nights at TVI Actors Studio, established character actor with credits from Broadway film and television Vincent Guastaferro leads one of Los Angeles most popular Scene Study classes.
Vincent Guastaferro attended the graduate school at The Goodman School of Drama in Chicago where he earned his MFA in Acting. Vinny worked in Chicago during the burgeoning theater movement of the 70’s and moved to LA in 1980.
He has worked with an array of stars ranging from the honorables Don Ameche and Jackie Gleason to the young hot comets of today like Phillip Seymore Hoffman and Julia Stiles. Starting in Chicago Vinny has a long standing affiliation with author/writer David Mamet and has appeared in six of his films and performed his works on stage all over the country.
In film he has had the honor of working with noted directors; Ivan Reitman, Barry Levinson, Woody Allen, Michael Mann, and John Irvin, to name a few. On TV Vinny has done over a hundred guest appearances, most recently on Las Vegas, Without a Trace, West Wing, and Law & Order. He has co-starred in several TV movies, most noted is Nitti: The Enforcer, starring Anthony LaPaglia in which Vinny co-starred as Al Capone. Vinny remains active on stage and in 1998 ran on Broadway for seven months in David Mamet’s hit autobiographical drama, The Old Neighborhood. More recently he was in Romance which premiered in NYC at the Atlantic Theater Company and this Summer appeared in Mamet’s newest piece ““TWO UNRELATED PLAYS BY DAVID MAMET” at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Los Angeles.
For information about Vincent Guastaferro acting class for film and television at TVI Actors Studio, please email the admissions department.
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In 1986 I started TVI with the goals of enabling aspiring actors to become actorpreneurs. The mission is to educate and create working professional actors, aka actorpreneurs.
The last few days I have been attending the New Media Expo in Las Vegas meeting with the world’s foremost experts on marketing, promoting and producing videos on the internet.
In the 4th quarter of 2008, TVI Actors Studio members will have unique and astonishing new avenues to showcasing their talent with our “New Media for Talent” department.
It is exciting, creative and will offer all the acting school members in New York and Los Angeles amazing ways to succeed as an actor.
Want to know more? Email me and I will give you the inside scoop on what we are doing at TVI this Fall.
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Adam Shonkwiler, TVI New York Member and working actor is having a great year. After coming off the National Tour of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Whistle Down The Wind, he just finished shooting the buzz-heavy feature film The Private Lives of Pippa Lee written and directed by Rebecca Miller and starring Robin Wright Penn. Adam plays opposite it-girl Blake Lively, from Gossip Girl and The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants. Next up for Adam is a run in the great Americana musical Big River at the Goodspeed Opera House. Adam’s TVI credits include the Advanced TV and Film Masterclass with Pat McCorkle, to which he attributes his easy transition into the film world from his musical theatre roots.
