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James is an award winning filmmaker and actor in film, TV, commercials, voice over & print work. He has worked as a professional actor since 1996 and filmmaker since 2000 in New York, Los Angeles and Australia.
Originally from New York City, James began acting in 1994 at Rutgers University where he majored in Theatre and Cinema. After college, he began working professionally in television and regional theatre while also working at MTV Networks in Times Square. His 16 years of actor training started with a degree in theatre and cinema at Rutgers University and continued training for 2 more years with The George Street Playhouse, Uta Hagen, and the William Esper Studio before moving to Los Angeles where he trained for a decade with various film & television Studio acting classes. Simultaneously James worked as a filmmaker for various companies and projects for over two decades from branded commercial content, documentaries, web series, and feature films.
James wrote, directed, produced, co-edited and starred in the feature film ‘Starting from Scratch’. After winning many film festival awards the rom-com earned a distribution deal playing in theaters across the country and streamed worldwide on iTunes, Amazon and many other digital platforms. A key difference in James’ teaching that differentiates him from other teachers comes from his extensive experience as a director and editor as well as an actor. Knowing what the story and camera needs and knowing what the film crafting process requires is one of his greatest strengths as a director and acting coach. As an actor, he knows first-hand how to usher other actors to get there. Always the student, he most recently completed the UCLA Photography certificate program with high honors.
Rarmian Newton - Teacher (Kids & Adults)
Rarmian Newton, currently starring in the lead role of Frodo in the national tour of Lord Of The Rings musical on stage, is a professional triple threat actor on stage and screen. Known for the roles of Maashous Evers in the TV musical drama RISE (NBC), Peter Saubers in the TV adaptation of Stephen King’s Mr. Mercedes (NBC) and Ethan Davies in Tell Me A Story (CBS). Rarmian started his career in theatre at the age of 10, touring Australia as young Peter Allen in Hugh Jackman’s The Boy From Oz. He won a Helpmann Award for his performance as the titular lead in Billy Elliot and toured Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the USA as the lead role of Hiccup in the live arena spectacular of How To Train Your Dragon. He then spent the next decade in the USA building and developing a career in film and television. Rarmian has worked with such notable actors as Hugh Jackman, Brendan Gleeson, Tom Holland, Antonio Banderas, Sir Ben Kinglsey, Rosie Perez, Aaron Eckhart, Joan Allen, Holland Taylor, Josh Radnor, Auli’i Cravalho, Lea Solonga and Kate Mulgrew. He has worked roles on most major American TV Networks during his time living and working in New York City and Hollywood, California.
Elisa Bullock - Teacher (Kids)
Elisa is a Melbourne native who has enjoyed performing long before she started her acting career as a competitor in All Star Cheerleading. She has been in numerous local theatre productions most recently starring in The Patient by Agatha Christie. She was nominated for a Comedy Lyrebird Award for her performance in A Knight to Remember. Elisa has been expanding her screen acting work with student films, music videos and shorts. Her actor training includes completing TAFTA’s full time program as well as training at NIDA, private coaching and The Hollywood Actor Lab. Elisa is also a prolific Bingo caller at the local RSL.