Howard Meyer's Acting Program

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Howard Meyer's Acting Program, a Westchester acting school offering top quality acting lessons and classes

Tony Howarth

Rachel Jones

Howard Meyer

Melanie Noblit-Gambino

Jacob White


Howard Meyer of Howard Meyer's Acting Program, a Westchester acting school offering top quality acting lessons and classesHoward Meyer
Howard Meyer is a professional theatre director, teacher, playwright and actor whose work has appeared Off-Broadway and regionally at theatres including New York Theatre Workshop, Total Theatre Lab, Rattlestick Productions, The Playwright's Center, Coyote Theatre, The Manhattan Theatre Club, The Schoolhouse Theatre, Fleetwood Stage and Barnspace. He has taught acting for the past thirteen years in New York City and in Westchester County. Howard is co-founder and Artistic Director of The Axial Theatre, an innovative professional Westchester-based Theatre Company. Mr. Meyer's plays include Persephone Rising, The Kiss, All That's Fair, and most recently, Lost In Paradise, which has just been optioned for a motion picture. His play Twenty, will be produced in February 2007.

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Rachel Jones, Teacher at Howard Meyer's Acting Program, a Westchester acting school offering top quality acting lessons and classesRachel
Jones

Rachel Jones is a member of Actors' Equity and Screen Actors' Guild. She toured the US and Canada with the first national tour of David Henry Hwang's M. Butterfly and has acted in several films and commercials. Rachel was a founding member of New York's Avalon Repertory Theatre where she both acted and directed. She has studied the acting techniques of Sanford Meisner and Uta Hagen. Ms. Jones currently acts with and directs for The Axial Theatre.

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Melanie Noblit-Gambino, Teacher at Howard Meyer's Acting Program, a Westchester acting school offering top quality acting lessons and classesMelanie Noblit-Gambino
Melanie Noblit-Gambino holds a B.F.A . in dance / Theatre / Creative Arts Therapy Education and Performance / Choreogaphy from SUNY Purchase.  Melanie has a passion for exploring and integrating several multi-traditional and interdisciplinary arts including nature awareness, healing, dance, theater, movement, voice, meditation and spiritual work.  Melanie is an Authorized Continuum Movement Teacher.  She is also an Ordained Minister of Healing an holds a B.A. in Theology and Sacred Healing.  Melanie has been teaching and performing professionally for over 25 years.  She has healing practices in New York City and Westchester, NY.  Melanie teaches and practices both privately and in art centers and area hospitals.

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Jacob Garrett White, Teacher at Howard Meyer's Acting Program, a Westchester acting school offering top quality acting lessons and classes
Jacob Garrett White

Jacob Garrett White's New York Theatre Acting credits include: Theatre for a New Audience's Julius Caesar, NYSF's Cymbeline, The Barrow Group's Pentecost and The Faithful, The Barrow Group and Theatre at St. Mary's Lobby Hero. Regional Theatre: Old Globe and Goodman Theater's Floyd Collins, New Jersey Rep's Panama, Color of Flesh and Emil, Ensemble Theater of Cincinnati's Keeping the Faith, Howard Meyer's production of Suburbia, International Tour The King and I, Theaterwork's Tour Babes in Toyland. Company member of NJ Rep. Training: BFA '98 in Dramatic Performance from University of Cincinnati Conservatory of Music (CCM), NYSF Shakespeare Lab, Howard Meyer's first acting student, The Barrow Group. Co-Artistic Director of Theatre at St. Mary's. Director of Barrow Group and Theatre at St. Mary's Medal of Honor Rag. Beginning October 2006, Jacob will conduct a monthly Audition Workshop series on Thurdsay nights.

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Tony Howarth, Teacher at Howard Meyer's Acting Program, a Westchester acting school offering top quality acting lessons and classes
Tony Howarth

Tony Howarth has received grants from the Death in America Foundation and the Drama League; he was playwright-in-residence for the Mint Theatre, in New York City, from 1991 to 1995. Professional productions include: Dream City Twosome, produced Off-Broadway in 1999; Thornwood, presented all over the U.S., in Europe and in Tanzania, later made into an award-winning independent movie, Slings and Arrows; Sundown, presented at the Sonora Playhouse, Sonora, California; Maiden Voyage, presented at the Westbeth Theater Center, New York City; his one-act play, Sally in the Middle, was presented in Amsterdam in 2001. As a director, he has worked on countless productions; his most recent gig was Carnival, for the College Light Opera Company, this summer, in Falmouth, Mass. As an actor, he has appeared in several productions as a member of Actors Equity. He conducted a workshop for young playwrights for five years at the Westbeth Theater Center in Greenwich Village until the Center closed a year ago.

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