SCOTT POWERS

President

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Scott Powers, in addition to his corporate responsibilities, is an actor, model, hand model, stand-up comic and is regularly seen in print ads and commercials. Mr. Powers is the author of the just published book, “Here’s Looking at You”: The Actor’s Guide to Commercial Print. Scott is a member of SAG-AFTRA and AEA. In each of these organizations he has held either elected or appointed positions, including the Board of Directors of AFTRA.

He is the former Vice President of the Professional Comedians Association, a voting member of the Academy Awards (The Emmys), the International Film & TV Festival and is listed in “Who’s Who.”

Scott is also President of CaribCom. Inc., an advertising agency specializing in hotel advertising/ representation in the Caribbean. Previously, Scott was a former “large agency man,” having worked at Young & Rubicam; Foote, Cone & Belding, etc.

He has a B.S. degree in Communication Arts from Ithaca College and an M.B.A. degree in Marketing from Farleigh Dickinson University and is a member of Mensa.

A resident of Manhattan, in his spare moments, Scott enjoys skiing and is an avid international river runner.



ON-CAMERA COMMERCIAL CLASS Instructors


TRACI LUTHY

President & Founder: Bona Fida & Emerging Artists

 

 

 

Traci founded Bona Fide Artists as a collaborative talent agency offering full-service representation with a strategic approach.  Her career began in advertising  working with clients Johnson & Johnson, Burger King, Colgate/Palmolive and Home Depot.  She then utilized her expertise in marketing and branding to implement a unique approach to artist management.

 


DAVID BELLANTONI

Commercial Casting Director at Beth Melsky Casting, Faculty: Commercials

David started casting in Los Angeles in 1994 and moved back home to New York to continue his work in the casting business in 2005.  He has worked on a wide variety of projects such as national network commercials, network promos, political ads, feature films, short films, documentaries, corporate industrials, music videos, PSA’s, webisodes and voice-overs for both TV and radio spots.

Some of the directors he has worked with include: David Fincher,  Tom Hooper, Tony Scott, Peter Berg, John Singleton, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Doug Liman, Phil Morrison, and Errol Morris. He is currently a Casting Director with one of the busiest companies in New York, Beth Melsky Casting.

“Scott Powers Studios is unique in that it combines instruction from some of the best names in the industry along with very small class sizes…this offers acting students highly individualized training and guidance and I also appreciate the diversity of talented actors Scott brings in. My office has brought in a number of actors from this program and they always excel in their auditions. In all, a positive experience for everyone involved.”



FILM & TV MASTER CLASS Instructors

 


RICHARD JORDAN

Casting Director: Richard Jordan Casting

Richard has cast independent film, television, music videos,theater, commercial, voice over, print, live events and pretty much anything else you can think of that requires talent. Richard Jordan Casting specializes in solid up-and-coming actors, comedy, and real people. Having worked professionally for years as an actor, writer, director, producer and at an ad agency he’s able to approach each unique project from multiple perspectives. Remaining calm under pressure, keeping a positive vibe in the audition studio and going outside regular channels to find the right people are just a few of the things that set us apart.

He casts both SAG-AFTRA and non-union actors and is happy to advise which direction you should go if you are unclear. Based in New York, he loves to travel and has cast projects in, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Dallas, and Miami.

“What I like about Scott’s school is that I meet a true diversity of emerging actors both in age and experience whereas many other schools have nothing but good looking kids in their 20’s. It’s also a school aimed at the professional trying to get more work so I am able to provide my feedback to them as someone who hires actors for a living on what’s working for them and what is not – a type of fine tuning. They come in already knowing how to act so I can teach them more advanced work finding related skills that some of the other schools skip out on.”


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Producer: Bravo Media




AUDITION TECHNIQUE CLASS instructor

SAMANTHA JANE TILTON

Casting Director

Samantha Jane Tilton is a busy Casting Director and does not do “the circuit” and we’re pleased she will be joining us for your benefit. She casts shows for Disney, USA Networks, Nickelodeon; commercials for Verizon, Cadillac, Levi’s, Burger King, Crest, Pepsi, etc.; casting team for films such as Front Runner with Hugh Jackman and Stronger with Jake Gyllenhaal. Samantha regularly works with casting offices such as Paladino, Grande Morris, Beth Melsky, Stacy Gallo, Donna Grossman, Bess Fifer and West Coast casting offices when they cast in New York City.
It’d be good for Samantha to know you.
She is also the Producer and Host of the popular YouTube podcast, “Big Face.”

 

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ON-CAMERA FILM INTENSIVE & ADVANCED FILM PROGRAM Instructor

CHIP HOURIHAN

Award Winning Feature Film Director, Faculty: Film

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Chip on IMDB

Chip’s film – Glissando

Chip’s Award Winning Feature – Frozen River

Chip Hourihan is one of the leading producer/directors currently working in New York’s independent film world, and has produced seven independent dramatic features over the past nine years. He produced the feature film Frozen River, which received the Grand Jury Prize at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival and was nominated for two 2009 Academy Awards, for Best Original Screenplay and Best Actress. Frozen River also received two Gotham Independent Film Awards (including a Best Film award for Hourihan) and was nominated for seven Independent Spirit Awards (including a Best Feature Film nomination for Hourihan), taking home two.

Among his other films, Hourihan produced Mind the Gap, winner of the Special Jury Award for Narrative Feature at South by Southwest, which was released theatrically, broadcast, and distributed by Showtime in 2004.

Hourihan has five feature projects currently in development as a producer. These films include Whaling City, a contemporary drama set in the world of commercial fishing in New Bedford, MA. Whaling City was the winner of both a screenplay award and a $100,000 production grant from the Sloan Foundation, and was a selection for the Independent Feature Project’s prestigious No Borders program. Hourihan’s other film projects include Temporary Hero, a coming-of-age story set on Nantucket during the summer of the first moon landing, The Dying Game, a contemporary dark comedy to be shot in the New York area, and a new comedic project to be shot in New York City with Writer/Director Eric Schaeffer, with whom Hourihan collaborated on Mind the Gap.

As a director, Hourihan wrote, produced, and directed the multiple award-winning film Glissando, which Variety called “a small gem deserving wider exposure… a striking debut for talented helmer-scripter Chip Hourihan.” The film received a great number of Best Feature, Best First Feature, and Best Actor awards on the film festival circuit. Hourihan’s next project as a writer/director will be angry candy, a story of sex, drugs, and modern poetry set in Somerville, MA in the late 1980s. angry candy was a Sundance Screenwriters Lab finalist in 2009, and this script is currently being workshopped with students in the Film Scene Study program. Hourihan is a magna cum laude graduate of Yale University with degrees in English and Architecture.


 

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