Celik Kayalar, PhD, Director
of Film Acting Program
Celia Shuman, Actor/Instructor
Hester Schell, MFA,
Actor/Director/Instructor
Barbara Scott, Actor/Instructor
Jessica Heidt, Director/Actor/Instructor
Warren David Keith, Actor/Director/Instructor
Greg Hubbard, Actor/Director/Instructor
Brian D. Scott, Actor/Director/Instructor
Celik Kayalar, PhD, Director of Film Acting
Program
Celik writes,
directs and produces independent films and plays. Also trained
as an actor, he recently appeared on stage in "Death and
the Maiden" (Mystic Bison), "Dirty Story" (Actors
Theatre of SF), "Our Town" (The Playhouse),
"Couch" (which he wrote, directed and co-produced at
Shelton Theater in SF, and Ruby Theater in Hollywood),), and
the indie films "Looped" (by Ken Yamada) and "9@Night"
(by Rob Nilsson).
Celik is also the writer, director and
co-producer of "Moonlight Sonata", a feature length,
psycho-thriller aimed for theatrical release. It is currently
in pre-production by "Moonlight Productions, LLC" at
SFSDF.
Over the last few years, Celik has organized
and taught various workshops in the Bay Area for Film Directors
and Actors. He is also the Assoc. Director of Film Productions
at SFSDF, coordinating the close interaction between the Acting-
and the Filmmaking Programs.
Celia Shuman, Actor/Instructor
An
accomplished performer (SAG, AFTRA, AEA) in theatre, film, television
and commercials for over 20 years, Celia rounds out her professional
expertise as a teacher, director and corporate trainer. She is
the recipient of a Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award for
creating the role of "Jackie-O" in the Magic Theatre's
"The House of Yes". Her other principle performance
venues include ACT, Berkeley Rep, San Jose Rep, Marin Theatre
Company, Theatreworks and Center Rep.
In addition to numerous independent
and industrial films, her on camera credits include co-starring
roles in "Midnight Caller", "Nash Bridges",
the CD-ROM game "Top Gun" and most recently as "Lady
Lightbug" in the DVD of Pixar's "The Incredibles".
Celia holds a BFA in Acting with High
Honors from Penn State University. She has also worked in New
York and Los Angeles. She has taught film acting at "Full
Circle Productions" in San Francisco for over ten years.
Her expertise includes teaching advanced film acting, commercials
and auditioning for the camera. Her philosophy is to acknowledge
the creative being in all of her students by shaping and nurturing
it in order to help the actor reach his or her personal acting
goals.
Hester Schell, MFA, Actor / Director
/ Producer / Instructor
A highly
accomplished actor (SAG, AFTRA), director and writer for film
and stage for over twenty years, Hester has performed in numerous
movies such as "Planting Melvin", "Love Life",
and "Your Guardian" and on TV in "Incident at
Dark River", "It Nearly Wasn't Christmas" and
"American Taboo".
A Graduate of University of Utah with an
MFA degree in directing, she produced and directed many plays,
feature-films and documentaries that won high acclaim.
Hester has been a very popular teacher
of film acting and directing in the Bay Area, with regular appearances
at Film Arts Foundation (SF), an adjunct professorship at Notre
Dame De Namur University (Belmont), and a tenured professorship
at De Anza College (Los Altos). She is also the publisher and
CEO of "Bay Area Casting News", an online newsletter
for actors in the Bay Area.
Barbara Scott, Actor/Instructor
Always in
great demand as one of the best improv instructors in the country,
Barbara has been performing in theatre and film for over twenty-five
years. She is a company member of the award-winning BATS Improv,
and a founding member of the internationally acclaimed improvisation
ensemble True Fiction Magazine.
Barbara has toured with improv groups
and conducted master classes across the US, Europe and Asia.
Steven Winn of the SF Chronicle has called her gifted "and
a reliable source of inspired invention." She'll be teaching
our "Improvisation for Camera" classes at SFSDF.
Jessica Heidt, Director/Actor/Instructor
Jessica
is a highly accomplished director, actor and acting instructor.
She's the Associate Artistic Director, as well as the Casting
Director of the "Magic Theatre" in San Francisco.
As a casting director, Jessica is in
constant demand for feature-films and plays produced by numerous
companies in the Bay Area. Alongside her work in the film and
theatre industry, she'll be teaching the "Acting Essentials",
"Film Acting I" and "Film Acting II" classes
at SFSDF.
Warren David
Keith, Actor / Director / Instructor
A graduate of "Yale School of Drama"
(MFA) and an esteemed stage- and film- actor (SAG, AFTRA, AEA)
and director for 25 years, Warren has acted in many highly acclaimed
movies including "Fargo", "The Big Lebowski"
and "Raising Arizona" (Cohen Brothers), and TV shows
like "Nash Bridges" and "The Enforcer".
He regularly acts lead-parts and directs
plays at ACT, Berkeley Rep, Magic Theatre, Marin Theatre Company
and Aurora Theatre in the Bay Area.
For over 15 years, Warren has been a
much sought-after teacher of Graduate and Master classes in prestigious
acting schools including ACT, UC Davis and Bernard College. He
now brings his wisdom and expertise to our "Advanced Film
Acting" Classes at SFSDF.
Greg Hubbard, Actor / Director / Instructor
Greg has
been a very successful actor (AEA), director and casting director
for over twenty years. His acting credits include plays with
Berkshire Theatre Festival, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, Porthouse
Theatre and many others. He has acted in numerous commercials,
industrials and independent films.
His local directing credits include
"Cat on a Hot Tin Roof", "The House of Blue Leaves",
"A Midsummer Night's Dream" and "The Country Wife".
He is currently the Casting Associate at ACT.
A graduate of UC Santa Barbara (BFA
in Acting) and Ohio University (MFA in Directing), Greg has been
a much sough-after teacher in the Bay Area of on-camera acting
at ACT (MFA Program), De Anza College, Cogswell Polytechnical
College, and of acting in general at Berkeley Rep School of Theatre,
Marin Theatre Company, New Conservatory Theatre Center and others.
He regularly coaches many talented stage-and film-actors for
auditions and career planning.
Brian D. Scott, Actor / Director / Producer
/ Instructor
Brian has
been a professional actor (SAG, AFTRA), director and producer
in film, television and on stage for more than 25 years. His
film credits include the CBS Movie of the Week "Johnnie
Mae Gibson FBI", "Want" and the cult classic
"Killer Klowns From Outer Space". Television appearances
include principle roles on "Nash Bridges", "Hearts
of Fire", "Renegade", "Midnight Caller"
and "The Evidence".
In addition, Brian has appeared in numerous
industrial films and theatrical productions locally as well as
in Los Angeles. His one-man show "Lifestyles of the Yin
and Yang" (which he also wrote and produced) played in Hollywood
before moving north to the Open Egg Theatre in 1995. He recently
appeared in the critically acclaimed "Our Lady of 121st
Street" and "The Fantasticks" at the SF Playhouse.
Brian has been teaching film- and stage
acting in the Bay Area in the last twenty years. His audition
and casting classes are especially popular. He is currently the
Executive Director of the Public, Educational and Government
television stations in Berkeley. |