TED BARDY
Ted Bardy, owner and director of The Ted Bardy Studio, Inc., has studied all the major acting techniques with some of the greatest teachers of our time. He has sculpted a practical, clear and specific way of working for today's actor that is based upon his own experiences. He has worked with such stars as Mira Sorvino, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Antonio Fargus, Lauren Holly, and Academy Award winner F. Murray Abraham. Mr. Bardy has also worked behind the camera as Director, Producer and Casting Director. Ted Bardy (when not instructing) personally supervises, observes, and evaluates all student work in all classes and workshops.
GREG PARENTE holds the title of Director of The Young Performers Acting Program at the Ted Bardy Studio. Mr. Parente has been nationally recognized as winner of the “Outstanding Professional High School Acting Teacher of the Year” award by The Blackboard Awards Nominating committee. Frank McCourt (author of the Pulitzer Prize winning book and film Angela’s Ashes) personally presented him the coveted award. Mr. Parente is also on the faculty of the famed Professional Performing Arts School in New York City.
Alumni include: Alicia Keys, Britney Spears, Claire Danes, Jesse Eisenberg, and countless others. Many of Greg’s current students can be seen in starring roles on television: Gossip Girl, Days of Our Lives, Guiding Light. Others, among them Connor Paolo, Addison Timlin, and Victor Rasuk, have starred in the films: World Trade Center, Mystic River, Alexander, Lords of Dogtown, Derailed, Raising Victor Vargas, and many others. On Broadway, his students have appeared in Les Miserables, The Lion King, Oklahoma, Nine, Grey Gardens, Coast of Utopia, Pillowman, Gypsy, and many other Broadway Hits.
Greg is also Co-Founder and Artistic Director of The Strain Theatre Company, a company geared towards cultivating and developing young talent. The Company, comprised of present and former students, is quickly making a name for itself in the downtown theatre scene. For the Strain Greg has acted in/directed Proof, The Indian Wants the Bronx, Shooting Gallery, Leader, Tape, The Lost Girl, The Sin-Eater, Ragnarok, & Spectre. Mr. Parente holds an MFA in Acting from the prestigious Asolo Conservatory at Florida State University and furthered his training under the direct guidance of Ted Bardy at The Ted Bardy Studio.
GLEN VINCENT
Glen Vincent, teaching associate, brings over 18 years experience as actor, teacher/coach, director and producer to The Ted Bardy Studio. Mr. Vincent, an expert in his method of teaching the Sanford Meisner technique, has worked with talent from the major Hollywood studios. He has first-hand knowledge of Mr. Meisner's work, and also draws upon his experience at The Actors Studio (during the tenure of Harold Clurman and Lee Strasberg).
GORDON JACOBY
Gordon Jacoby, Ph.D. is a legendary instructor of speech, diction, and dialects. With an M.A. in Speech Science and a Ph.D. in Theatre, Dr. Jacoby was THE teacher serious actors (especially Meisner trained actors) sought out during the late 80's and 90's. Actors he has worked with include: Nicolas Cage, Joan Plowright, Danny Glover, Anjelica Huston, Bob Hoskins, and Olympia Dukakis. Studio films include: "Avalon", "Enemies: A Love Story", and "The Cotton Club." He has worked with many other major stars and on many other major Studio films. The Ted Bardy Studio is proud to offer serious actors the opportunity to work with this legendary teacher.
ELIZABETH MOZER
Elizabeth Mozer, Movement Director and Teacher, has taught “Movement for the Actor” for numerous theatre companies and acting schools, including: the Judith Shakespeare Company (NYC), Stella Adler Conservatory of Acting, and American Musical and Dramatic Academy. As an actress she trained with Tim Phillips, the William Esper Studio, National Shakespeare Co., H.B. Studio, and Michael Howard Studios, and has a B.A. in Dance from SUNY College at Brockport. She has trained in a variety of movement-oriented techniques including Suzuki and Viewpoints. She is currently Artistic Director for the movement-based New York theatre company, “Theatre in the Flesh.”
Ms. Mozer also has extensive experience in the field of on-camera commercials. She has appeared in over 80 commercials during the last twenty years. She is currently sharing her vast knowledge of the commercial world in her on-camera commercial classes. Students learn the many essentials of the commercial business - from the initial casting call to work on the set - along with learning the craft of auditioning and acting on-camera. Students work with commercial text on-camera each week and view their work in a non-competitive and non-stressful environment.
STUART SAMUELS
Stuart Samuels, Ph.D. is a world-renowned film historian, producer, director, writer, and teacher. Production and directing credits include: “Midnight Movies,” (based on his book) selected for various film festivals, including the Cannes Film Festival in 2005, “Urban Wild: New York, Paris, Tokyo, Toronto” for Discovery Channel (Canada) in 2002, and “Visions of Light: The Art of Cinematography” for PBS in 1993, which won numerous awards, including Best Documentary, New York Film Critics Award. Dr. Samuels is the author of the book Midnight Movies, a look at the most famous cult films of the 1970s. From 1967 to 1981 he was Professor of Popular Culture and History at the University of Pennsylvania. Now with The Ted Bardy Studio, he is currently teaching “Re-contextualizing Life as an Actor: Re-defining the Space inside your Head.”