Instructors

Stuart Rogers

• Head Instructor

• Advanced Scene Study

• Director Class

• Teacher Training

• Immersive Acting

Stuart Rogers is an award-winning writer, director, actor, and teacher whose career has been dedicated to the pursuit of truthful storytelling. For more than four decades, he has worked across theatre, film, and television while helping thousands of actors and directors develop their artistry through a process of continual exploration, discovery, and professional growth.

As the founder of Stuart Rogers' Studios, Stuart developed Immersive Acting—a living methodology that unites the enduring principles of classical actor training with an evolving process of artistic exploration. His teaching explores how actors transform the objective reality of the given circumstances into personal, subjective experience, cultivating the freedom to play and the ability to live truthfully within the world of the story. Today, actors, directors, and teachers from around the world continue to study this evolving approach through the studio's year-round programs in North Hollywood and online.

Alongside his work as a teacher, Stuart founded the multi-award-winning theatre company Theatre Tribe, where he served as Artistic Director. Under his leadership, the company became recognized for producing bold contemporary work, including numerous Los Angeles and West Coast premieres, multiple Los Angeles Times Critics' Choices, Ovation Award-winning productions, and acclaimed new plays.

Stuart's work as a director has been recognized with the Ovation Award, the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award, and the Garland Award. His films have screened at more than thirty film festivals nationwide and have received more than twenty festival awards. His students have gone on to become series regulars, Broadway performers, and recipients of Academy Awards, Emmy Awards, Golden Globe Awards, and Tony Awards.

Born and raised in Manhattan, a graduate of Brown University, Michael is best known for his eight seasons as A.D.A. Leo Cohen on NYPD Blue. He's also recurred on E.R., The X-Files, Once and Again, For The People, Skin, CSI: Miami and ABC Family's Beautiful People (premiering in August). Additional TV credits include: CSI, Cold Case, Monk, CSI: NY, Law & Order, Judging Amy, Providence, Felicity, The District and many more. On the Big Screen, his credits include Seabiscuit, In the Weeds (just released on DVD by Miramax), The Big Time, I Am Sam, Legally Blonde, Virtuosity, An Eye For An Eye, Playing By Heart, Higher Learning, as well as the independents Submerged, Seven Girlfriends and Unbeatable Harold (opening in November).

In addition to his impressive list of acting credits, Michael is also a freelance writer for television and has shot three original shorts. He will, hopefully, be making plans to make his feature directorial debut later this year with his original screenplay titled Sweetwater, starring Freddy Prinze Jr. and Scott Glenn. Michael comes from a long line of filmmakers; his grandfather, Oscar winner Sidney Buchman, ran Columbia under Harry Cohen throughout the 30s and 40s. Before he was blacklisted, and wrote and produced such films as Mr. Smith Goes To Washington, Here Comes Mr. Jordan, Talk of the Town, The Awful Truth, Sahara, A Song to Remember, Holiday, Lost Horizon, The Jolson Story, Cleopatra, Theodora Goes Wild and twenty others. Michael's sister, Amanda Silver, wrote The Hand That Rocks The Cradle and continues to write and produce with her husband Rick Jaffa. Michaels writing, acting, and now teaching partnership with Stuart dates back thirty years.

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• Foundation Class

• Scene Study

• Audition Lab

Michael Silver

Tyler Seiple

• Accent Teacher

• Foundation Class

Tyler Seiple is an actor, director, writer, producer, and freelance voice and speech coach in the Los Angeles area. He is the founder of Accents in Action™ (www.accentcoachla.com) and a Master Teacher of Knight-Thompson Speechwork®. His private clients have been heard onscreen in projects ranging from This Is Us and Shameless to Crazy Ex Girlfriend and The Rookie. He has coached shows throughout the Los Angeles area, with companies including the Fountain Theatre, the Antaeus Theatre Company, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Rogue Machine Theatre, the LA Philharmonic Association, and the Museum of Natural History.

Tyler holds a Master of the Fine Arts from the University of California, Irvine, and is an Associate Teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework®. He currently teaches at California State University, Long Beach, and has also taught at the University of California Irvine, Chapman University, and multiple studios in Los Angeles. His television credits include Lucifer, SEAL Team, Penny Dreadful: City of Angels, and For All Mankind. His film credits include Separation Anxiety, Travelling Salesman, and his award-winning shorts, Life, Perfected and One Year Later. An L.A. Stage Alliance Ovation-nominated actor, Tyler also produces and directs onstage around Southern California.

Catherine Black AKA Cat Black (She/They) is a Canadian-American director-writer-actor and acting instructor, and a proud member of SAG-AFTRA, AEA, ACTRA, CAEA and The Alliance of Women Directors. Cat has been coaching and teaching actors for 20 years. She began coaching child actors and was an on set acting coach in Toronto. She has studied and taught various acting techniques in Toronto, Los Angeles and London, but having studied “Paradigms” with Stuart Rogers for 10 years, it was a natural evolution for Cat to teach what she believed in and become a certified teacher with the studio. Cat loves to teach because it makes them a more inspired artist, and she loves teaching Paradigms because it is an intuitive acting process that takes actors from an objective point of view about a character to a first person experience of a life. Paradigms is ever evolving, so it’s always inspiring. Cat is devoted to their evolution as an educator - to continue to learn how to best serve all actors while creating safe spaces for actors to be their most creative. She has great insight, but Cat’s real gift as a teacher is teaching with heart and making sure everyone feels that they belong.

Cat has been lucky to live and work as an actor, director, producer and acting teacher in both Toronto and Los Angeles. She was cast as Juliet at the age of 16, where a life long dedication to acting and storytelling began. Cat went on to star in many multi Dora award winning theatre productions such as Crimes (Canadian Stage) and Walls of Africa (Theatre Passe Murraile) while consistently working in TV and film. Most recently Catherine was cast in a guest starring role on season 2 of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (2023). Best known for playing Vanden in American Psycho opposite Christian Bale and starring with Crispian Glover in The Donner Party. Cat has performed in many award winning independent films and studio movies like Loser, Shock Value and Stay Cool, and has booked countless guest starring roles such as Odyssey 5, Blue Murder, Mr. Headmistress, I love Mummy, Highlander: The Raven, In a Heartbeat, Show Me Yours and Playing House. Other recent credits include a supporting role in the feature film Debt Collectors (2020) and a lead role in the comedy feature, BitterSweet (2023). At the beginning of 2020, Cat had the privilege of starring in And Then They Came For Me directed by Abigail Deser with MainStreet Theatre which won the LA Stage Alliance Ovation award for Best Production of a Large Theatre.

Cat’s extensive practice as an actor and artist has rooted their vision in filmmaking. The first five directors Cat worked with as an actor were visionary women like Mary Harron and Amy Heckerling – inspiring Cat to direct one day. She was lucky to shadow many talented directors early on, and went on to produce commercials, award winning short films and music videos. Cat wrote, directed and starred in the ‘sexy and surreal’ short film, De Puta Madre a Love Story that won Cat Best Director (London IFF) and Best Lead Actress (Madrid IFF), and the film won Best Cinematography (Columbia Gorge IFF) along with multiple Jury Awards, Special Mentions and nominations Internationally. Cat also starred in, directed and co-wrote Girl Trip, a dark comedy that took home five awards and acquired Worldwide distribution on SHUDDER and Prime. Most recently, Cat was hired to direct Like Nothing Happened that premiered at the 39th Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival, and won Best Drama at the 2021 Rock The Shorts Film Festival and has been hired to direct her 4th project in Toronto in 2023. Cat is also currently writing her next film, What Happened To Charity, a dark comedy feature film. https://catherineblack.com/ https://www.directedbycatherineblack.com/

• Online class

• Intimacy Coordinator

Catherine Black

Associat Teachers

Saul Kotzubei

• Acting Vocial Technique

• Fitzmaurice Voicework

Saul Kotzubei (Los Angeles) teaches workshops, ongoing voice classes, and private clients in Los Angeles. He is a lead trainer for the Fitzmaurice Voicework® Teacher Certification Program, an approach to voice training that includes work with the body, breathing, voice and imagination to support actors in being truthful, spontaneous, and free in their work. He has taught Fitzmaurice Voicework at NYU's CAP 21 Studio, New York's Actors Center, and in workshops throughout the world. An actor with a Masters degree in Buddhist Studies from Columbia University, Saul has a special interest in helping his students discover fruitful links between voicework and the acting process taught in Stuart's studio. Saul is one of only eight certified Master Teachers of Fitzmaurice Voicework. He melds that approach with a number of other styles to address the specific needs of his students. Saul's Website: www.voicecoachLA.com