World renown Casting Director Pat McCorkle is beginning her 4 week Master Class tonight May 12th at 7pm. In her class you will be learning how to master the technique of auditioning for TV/Film. Pat is currently working on an Off Broadway play and is casting for a Columbia feature film.

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TVI Actors Studio in New York has a new staff member that is heading fast to a very successful Theatre, Film and TV career. Between auditions, Bianca laVerne Jones supports the thousands of New York actors that meet her at the front reception at TVI in NY. She modestly has surpassed many actors in her category and relatively new to New York City. A graduate of North Carolina School of the Arts, State University of New York at Purchase and Yale School of Drama, Ms. Jones is someone New York casting directors, film directors and agents are carefully watching!

Come by TVI in NY and say hi to the newest member of our team. But hurray, as she just booked and is about to appear in “Iken’s Perversion” , Directed by John Gould Rubin, starring Academy Award winner, F. Murray Abraham as Iken and Bianca LaVerne Jones
as Omana.

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F. Murray Abraham conjures up images of the half-mad composer Antonio Salieri in the film Amadeus (for which he won an Oscar as Best Actor) or the gargoyle-like inquisitor in The Name of the Rose. While he is known for his serious dramatic performances, Abraham has done fine work in other genres as well. He was memorable as the “screaming queen” in The Ritz, a Broadway comedy that was made into a film in 1976. And in Arnold Schwarzenegger’s underrated, overblown The Last Action Hero, Abraham spoofed his own image when his character was pegged as the murderer because he looked “like the guy that killed Mozart”.

The Show appears at Loft 21/21 at 551 West 21st St at 11th Avenue, Monday June 15th at 6:00pm. RSVP to: iken0615@hotmail.com. If you have any questions, please call 212.479.8469

Australian and American actor Anthony Brandon Wong and TVI’s founder Alan S Nusbaum take a moment prior to the start of Anthony’s popular scene study class at TVI Actors Studio in Los Angeles.

You may recognize Anthony Brandon Wong from “Navy NCIS: Naval Criminal Investigative Service”, “Samurai Girl”, Mask of the Ninja, Secrets of the Forbidden City, “The Unit”, “All Saints”, and The Matrix Revolutions just to name a very few.

In addition to his acting and teaching, Award-winning actor and singer Anthony Brandon Wong aka Anthony Brandon Young teams up with actress/singer Jennifer Norkin (Ugly Betty, Entourage, Strong Medicine, I’m in Hell) in “Taking Chances”, their dynamic new cabaret show at Hollywood’s M Bar on Friday 5th June at 8pm (doors open at 6.30pm). Tickets: $15, and $10 food minimum for dinner. Call TVI Actors Studio for details and how to get tickets. Hurray, this show will be sold-out!

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From IMDB.com

Mini Biography

Anthony Brandon Wong is an award-winning actor who has played a wide range of roles in more than 30 hit television programs, numerous films and over thirty stage productions in the US, Canada, Asia, Europe, Australia and Africa. He is best known to international audiences for his role as ‘Ghost’, the Zen Buddhist assassin in “The Matrix Reloaded”, “The Matrix Revolutions”, and as the lead character (alongside Jada Pinkett Smith) in the “Enter the Matrix” video game, all written and directed by The Wachowski Brothers. He also worked alongside Dennis Quaid, Hugh Laurie, Tyrese Gibson and Giovanni Ribisi in the Twentieth Century Fox action picture “Flight of the Phoenix”, filmed in the deserts of Namibia, Africa. Other notable film roles include the lead male role in Clara Law’s “Floating Life” as a womanizing Hong Kong stockbroker who realizes the error of his philandering ways.

He was most recently seen in ABC Family’s “Samurai Girl” as ‘Tasuke Kogo’, father of the title character and one of Japan’s most powerful businessmen, and in the BBC’s “Secrets of the Forbidden City” as the principal character of 15th Century Chinese Emperor Yongle, the visionary but despotic leader who built the world-famous Forbidden City. He also plays a lead role opposite Caspar Van Dien (”Starship Troopers”) in the US martial arts TV movie “Mask of the Ninja” (Spike TV), and will soon be seen in the Australian comedy crime feature “Crooked Business”. His many television credits include “The Unit” (as a Thai prince facing death threats), “NCIS” (as a Navy Doctor), the Francis Ford Coppola produced “Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde” (playing a Hong Kong detective), Disney Channel’s “Jumping Ship” (as a modern-day pirate), “All Saints” (as a journalist who loses his partner), “Water Rats” (as a compulsive gambler), “Spellbinder 2″ (as series regular ‘Mek’, a scientist) and “Embassy” (as series regular ‘Lee’, a political revolutionary).

In 1992, he won the Victorian Green Room Best Actor Award (theatre) for his performance as a Filipino transvestite in “Sex Diary of an Infidel”, which also netted him a Sydney Critics Circle Award nomination. He also scored Green Room Award nominations for his stage work in “The Temple” as a cocaine-addicted paraplegic and in “The Language of the Gods” as an Indonesian priest with magical powers. He played the lead role of a Malaysian king in the Melbourne Theatre Company production of “Coup d’etat”, worked with Cate Blanchett in the Australian feature “Little Fish” and played an Aboriginal hip-hop artist, a Lebanese tough guy, an African schoolgirl and a New Zealand-born Samoan boxer in the acclaimed stage production of “Fast Cars and Tractor Engines” (Urban Theatre Projects, Sydney).

Anthony Brandon Wong is an acclaimed singer (musicals, cabaret, pop), writer and stand-up comedian. He is also an acting teacher, who has taught at Australia’s National Institute of Dramatic Arts (alumni include Cate Blanchett, Mel Gibson and Judy Davis), Actors Centre Australia (where Hugh Jackman and Naomi Watts studied) and the Australian Theatre for Young People.

TVI’s very own Heidi Armbruster co-starred in the reading of Wendy MacLeod’s newest work in development “Find and Sign” today at the Atlantic Theater Company. “Find and Sign” smartly unfolds the relationships of its four main players and the choices they make in pursuit of love and career. Set against the backdrop of the hip hop music industry and one label in particular, it draws unexpected parallels to Othello. The strength of of play lay in it’s clever dialogue and spot on insight into love today on the New York dating landscape. Actress and TVI instructor Heidi Armbruster played Mona. Heidi Armbuster teaches a call back and interview class for Film and TV at TVI Studios in NYC.

Eric Woodall, Casting Director at Tara Rubin Casting, will be offering an Advanced Musical Theatre Audition Technique class starting Monday, March 23rd, 2009. Eric’s numerous Broadway Casting Credits include Mamma Mia!, Jersey Boys, Billy Elliot, Phantom of the Opera, Shrek, Mary Poppins, The Little Mermaid, and more.

This 4 week class will focus on fine tuning a performer’s book of musical audition pieces while gaining insight into the world of New York Musical Theatre as you polish your audition technique.

Call now to set up an audition appointment and to find out more information! 212-302-1900

Congratulations to TVI Student, Leandra Ramm, who has booked the new show, “Hell’s Kitchen, The Musical.” The show is aiming to open Off-Broadway in February 2009 at the Hudson Guild Theatre. You can catch a fundraising concert version of the show at the Triad Theater on Wednesday, December 3rd at 8pm. Call 212.362.2590 for more information.

Congratulations and a hearty ‘break a leg’ to Bill Mootots, who has had quite the season. Bill will be starring in not one, but TWO shows in the Boston area. First off he will be playing Warwick in St- Joan at the Wheelock Family Theatre in Boston, and shortly thereafter will be rounding out the season by appearing in the Hanover Center for The Performing Arts’ production of A Christmas Carol. Looks like that Alaine Aldaffer class helped with something! Ask your consultants about her Theatrical auditioning intensive coming up December 11th.

Yasmine Jahanmir, one of the regular members here at TVI, is one busy bee. She is appearing in the full length production of “Four Years Apart”, a new play by Courtney Brooke Lauria premiering at The Bridge Theatre On 54th street. But that’s not all folks. She is also a member of the board of directors for the resident company, Native aliens. Yasmine will be expanding her industry connections even further, by attending our Legit Talent Agent Showcase this coming November the 13th and the 20th. Don’t miss out. Take your career in your own hands. Call your TVI consultant at (212) 302-1900 and get seen today. Download the Legit Agent Showcase flier here

The Casting Society of America (CSA) announced the 2008 Artios Award nominees for Outstanding Achievements in Casting with a full page ad in Daily Variety.

TVI Actors Studio is proud that numerous of the acting teachers at the school have been nominated:

DAYTIME SERIES

Mark Teschner - “General Hospital” (TVI – Los Angeles)

Rob Decina – “The Guilding Light” (TVI – New York)

TELEVISION SERIES – DRAMA

Julie Tucker – “Damages” (TVI – New York)

TELEVISION SERIES – COMEDY

Meg Liberman – “Pushing Daisies” (TVI – Los Angeles)

TELEVISION PILOT – COMEDY

Pat McCorkle “Californication” (Original NY Casting) (TVI – New York)

Meg Liberman – “Pushing Daisies” (TVI – Los Angeles)

CHILDREN’S SERIES PROGRAMMING

Howard Meltzer – “Hannah Montana” (TVI – Los Angeles & New York)

BROADWAY THEATRE – DRAMA

David Caparelliotis – “Mauritius”

OFF BROADWAY

David Caparelliotis – “From Up Here”

The 24th Annual Artios Awards take place November 10th, 2008 in Los Angeles at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel and in New York at Carolines On Broadway.

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