seidman academy
Established 1984
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A collection of on-campus (and online) Academy classes dating from 2001 to 2021 taught by dozens of Broadway stars such as Sutton Foster,
Hamilton's Rory O'Malley, Dear Evan Hansen's Will Roland, Wicked's Ben Cameron, Hairspray & Legally Blonde's Tracy Edwards,
Grease's Laura Osnes, Beauty & the Beast's Jeanne Lehman, Les Miserables' Bart Shatto, etc., Hollywood agents, casting directors, film/TV professionals, and members of England's Royal Shakespeare Company. (Beginnings London Academy additionally provides classes with featured actors from noted BBC TV series such as Sherlock, Dr. Who, Harry Potter, Downton Abbey, The Crown, and/or others. )
As of 2020, the Academy began offering an all-online format in addition to its live programs. The online format is now the only fully immersive six-day, twenty-four-hour resident performing arts experience on the internet.
Rob Grant
Television & Stage Actor
The Orville
Succession
Red Dead Redemption 2
Beginnings Academy 2020
Chad Eric Murnane
Binder Casting
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows
Hamlet
Song of a Kingpin
New York Workshop 2019
Jen Rudin
Jen Rudin Casting
The Incredibles
Chicken Little
High School Musical 4
Meet the Robinsons
Gotham
New York Workshop 2019
Will Roland
Broadway's Dear Evan Hansen
Broadway's Be More Chill
New York Workshop 2018
Lee Stringer
Author
Grand Central Winter (Among Top Ten Recommended Books,
New York Times, USA Today)
Like Shaking Hands with God (With Kurt Vonnegut)
Contributing Writer: The New York Times,
The Nation, The New York Observer, Newsday
New York Workshop 2015
David Pendleton
TV's All My Children, Guiding Light, The Jefferson's, Police Story
Broadway's No Place To Be Somebody
Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope
Vocalist, The Platters
New York Workshop 2015
Kevin Jones
Music Director, National Tours: Beauty and the Beast, Annie, Evita,
Phantom of the Opera, Annie Get Your Gun
New York Workshop 2015
Kevin Kolack
Numerous voice-over and TV commercials
Film: Blue Ruin
New York Workshop 2014
Paul Valley
Broadway's 1776
NBC's Another World (1,000 episodes)
Law & Order, Guiding Light
New York Workshop 2014
Jaqui Dubois
Dancer/Chroeographer
Broadway's Fela
New York Workshop 2013
Jeanne Lehman
Broadway's Beauty and the Beast
Broadway's Sound of Music
New York Workshop 2017
Marta Rainer
Off-Broadway writer, director, actress: Unaccustomed to My Name
Numerous New York and Regional credits
Collaborations with Second City founder Peter Sills and Moscow Arts Theatre Director Salva Dolgachev
New York Workshop 2015
Joseph Melendez
Broadway's Jesus Christ Superstar
Film: We Need to Talk About Kevin with Tilda Swinton and John C. Reilly
TV: Ozark, Person of Interest,Blacklist, Prison Break
New York Workshop 2015
Paul Russell
Casting Director
20th Century Fox, HBO, CBS, ABC, NBC,
Broadway, Off Broadway
New York Workshop 2014
Q
Dancer, Choreographer:
Dance Moms, Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, MTV, VH1
Instructor, Broadway Dance Center
New York Workshop 2014
Bart Shatto
Jean Valjean, Broadway's Les Miserables
Broadway's Civil War
Broadway's Dracula
Soloist, Trans-Siberian Orchestra
New York Workshop 2014
Jennie Buckman
Former Director, Acting Division
Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts
Actor, Director, BBC TV
London Workshop 2013
Arnold Mungioli
Former Executive Director of Theatrical Casting, The Disney Company
New York Workshop 2012
Ruth Williams-Hennessy
Voice Instructor,
Clients: Broadway, TV, Music Videos
New York Workshop 2012
Judy Adams
Actor, Director
London's Royal National Theatre
London Workshop 2012
Royal Shakespeare Company
Shakespeare Script Interpretation and Workshop I
London Workshop 2011
Ben Cameron
Broadway's Wicked
Broadway's Footloose
Broadway's Aida
New York Workshop 2010
Laura Osnes
Former Beginnings Student
Star, Broadway's Grease
Star, Broadway's South Pacific
Star, Broadway's Anything Goes
Star, Broadway's Bonnie & Clyde
New York Workshop 2008
Tracy Jai Edwards
Former Beginnings Student
Broadway's Hairspray
Broadway's Legally Blonde
Off Broadway's Ruthless
New York Workshop 2012
Wendi Green and Jennifer Millar
Abrams Artists
Talent Agents, Youth Division
Hollywood Workshop 2012
Marnie Cooper
Talent Management
On-Set Coach for Ron Howard,
Clients: Miley Cyrus, Mila Kunis, Leelee Sobieski, (hundreds of others)
Hollywood Workshop 2012
Royal Shakespeare Company
Shakespeare Script Interpretation and Workshop II
London Workshop 2011
Robert Galinsky
Improv Artist
Founder, New York Reality TV School
New York Workshop 2009
Courtney Young
Dance Captain, Broadway's The Producers
Broadway's Young Frankenstein
New York Workshop 2008
Pat McCorkle
Casting Director
McCorkle Casting
Hundreds of TV, commercial, and film casting credentials
New York Workshop 2006
Stacey Sipowicz
Dance Captain
Broadway's Cabaret
New York Workshop 2001
Maggie Maes
Acting Instructor
Talent Manager
Clients: Broadway, TV, film, commercials
New York Workshop 2005
Liz McConahay
Dance Captain,
Broadway's The Full Monty
Broadway's Cabaret
New York Workshop 2004
Rory O'Malley
Broadway's Hamilton
Broadway's Book of Mormon
New York Workshop 2017
Kyle Coker
Binder Casting, Donna DeSeta Casting, Beth Melsky Casting, Strickman-Ripps
Hundreds of national commercials including Target, Little Debbie,
Cablevision, Apple, Bloomingdales, Macys, Toyota, and Kmart
New York Workshop 2015
Dr. Anthony Salzarulo
One of New York's leading Holistic Doctors
Chiropractor, Physical Therapist, and Iridologist
Advanced studies in nutrition, detoxification,
homeopathy, flower essences, and herbs
New York Workshop 2015
William Martin
Director, Broadway's The Lieutenant
(Nominated, 5 Tony Awards)
Stars directed: Eartha Kitt, Frank Langella, Barry Bostwick, Jason Alexander, Hume Cronyn, Jessica Tandy, Dick Shawn
Past President, Society of New York Broadway Directors and Choreographers Foundation
Ph.D. Theater History
New York Workshop 2014
Adam Penford
Associate Director to Sir Nicholas Hytner,
Artistic Director, London's Royal National Theatre
Director, One Man, Two Guvnors
West End, London, and Broadway, NY
London Workshop 2014
Wayne Williams
Dancer/Choreographer
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
New York Workshop 2012
Richard Kline
Larry Dallas in Three's Company
Broadway's City of Angels
David Mamet's November
New York Workshop 2012
Braeden Lemasters
Star, TNT's Men of a Certain Age
Recurring roles: TV's Law & Order,
NCIS, Grey's Anatomy, House, ER,
(dozens of others)
Hollywood Workshop 2012
Athena Reich
TV Actor, Recording Artist
New York Workshop 2010
Takisha Williamson
Dancer/Choreographer
New York Workshop 2009
Tessa Netting
Former Beginnings Student
Broadway's Billy Elliot
Disney's Bunk'd
New York Workshop 2006
Sutton Foster
Tony-Award Winner
Broadway's Thoroughly Modern Millie
Broadway's Anything Goes
Broadway's Shrek the Musical
Broadway's Little Women
Broadway's Drowsy Chaperone
Broadway's Young Frankenstein
New York Workshop 2005
Bryan Close
Actor, Director
Artistic Director, Occam Repertory Theater
New York Workshop 2005