The Ted Bardy Studio is proud to announce the addition of instructor Greg Parente to it’s faculty. Mr. Parente holds the title of Director of The Young Performers Acting Program at the Ted Bardy Studio. Mr. Parente has been nationally recognized as this year’s 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, One Life to Live. 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, 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 of Mr. Parente, is quickly becoming a powerful force in the downtown theatre scene. 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.