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SCOTT SEDITA
 Scott Sedita, winner of Backstage Best Acting Teacher 2008 and voted one of the Best Audition Teachers 2009, is a well respected, highly in- demand Acting Coach and Author.
This winter, Scott will be seen in the new Showtime series “La La Land.” Last year, Scott starred in the VH1 reality show “New York Goes To Hollywood” as well as MTV’s “My Perfect Life.” In the past, he’s starred in the E! series “Fight For Fame,” USA Network’s “Character Fantasy,” Fox Sports Network’s “Helmets Off, ” MTV’s “Adventures In Hollyhood” and Bravo’s “Faking It.” He is also the author of the best-selling books, “The Eight Characters of Comedy, A Guide to Sitcom Acting and Writing” and “Scott Sedita’s Guide To Making It In Hollywood. 3 Steps to Success. 3 Steps to Failure.”
A graduate of Boston University’s Film and Television program, Scott has more than 25 years of experience in the entertainment industry. He began his career in New York as a talent agent, where he helped to launch the careers of many of today’s top stars, including Courteney Cox, Matt LeBlanc, Teri Polo, Christopher Meloni, Dylan Walsh, Jerry O’Connell and Vincent D’Onofrio just to name a few.
In 1990, Scott relocated to Los Angeles where he worked as a sitcom writer for Howie Mandel, Bobcat Goldthwait and others. In the mid-90s, Scott worked as a casting director for Danny Goldman Casting until launching his Scott Sedita Acting Studios in 1998.
Today, Scott and his staff teach the craft of acting to the hundreds of actors who walk through his doors on a weekly basis. Scott has taught many hot new actors who have become series regulars on such shows as “Gossip Girl,” “90210,” “Heroes,” “Grey’s Anatomy,” “Weeds,” My Name Is Earl,” “Ugly Betty,” “Chuck,” “Prison Break,” “Las Vegas,” and “The Secret Life of An American Teenager” to name a few.
“The Eight Characters of Comedy” has become a textbook for colleges and universities, as well as a “bible” to comedy writers and producers all over the world. Scott is a Comedy Consultant on sitcoms in the United States and Canada.
Scott has appeared on numerous TV talk shows and can be heard on radio stations around the world as the “Hollywood Expert.” He’s been the feature story in such publications as Hollywood Reporter, Soap Opera Digest, Inside TV, Backstage and TV Soap to name a few. He has also appeared on “Entertainment Tonight,” “Extra,” and “Access Hollywood.” KTLA Channel 5 did a story on Scott entitled “Where Young Hollywood Goes and Studies” and referred to him as “one of the hottest coaches in town.”
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Deborah quayle
 Deborah
has been a respected acting coach for the last 6 years. In addition
to her private coaching she also taught drama and audition technique
at Chad McCord's Acting Studio. She began her professional training
in NYC where she completed the 2-year Meisner program with William
Esper. She continued her training by studying script analysis
with Tim Phillips and a range of acting techniques with other
noted professionals. She has been a series regular on ABC's
daytime drama "Loving" and UPN's "Dangerous Women". She has
worked in theatre in NYC and Los Angeles, can be seen often
in film and television, and on numerous national commercials.
Recent acting credits include the ABC pilot "Football Wives"
directed by Bryan Singer, the film "Order Up" starring Illeana
Douglas and the award winning short "Janie".
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TODD ROHrBACHER
 Todd
is an alumnus of the acclaimed ACME Comedy Theatre in Los Angeles,
where he performed with the ACME Players in the Main Company.
He also directed ACME’s Sunday Company of up and coming
talent and has taught all levels of comedy improvisation for
more than 10 years. Todd has worked in many facets of the industry:
Theatrical and commercial casting, television writer, playwright,
director and continues to be a working actor. He has appeared
in several network pilots and dozens of commercials. Additionally,
Todd was a Network Dialogue Coach for NBC’s GOOD MORNING
MIAMI.
Todd is a proud graduate of Warner Bros.’ renowned Comedy Writers
Program and has produced and taught Comedy Workshops for Disney’s
Animation Studios. Todd continues to perform regularly as Founder
and Artistic Director of his improv group Captain Creamsicle’s
Laughateers: www.thelaughateers.com. Todd joined the teaching staff
at Scott Sedita Studios in 2002 and is now the head of the TV and
Film Comedy Department.
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ELIZABETH BAUMAN
 Elizabeth
Bauman has taught at The Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute
both in New York and Los Angeles, and at Scott Sedita's Acting
Studios for the past ten years. She has a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from
New York University's Tisch School of The Arts, a Masters Degree in Educational
Theatre from NYU and a Masters Degree in Drama Therapy from The Drama
Therapy Institute Of Los Angeles.
She has privately coached and taught thousands of children.
She has worked with and counseled children and teens in group homes,
rehabilitation centers, the developmentally disabled, and those on the autistic
spectrum as well as in her private practice.
Elizabeth is a new director and filmmaker. Her last two short
films were made Official Selections at The Los Angeles International
Children's Film Festival and The San Francisco International
Childrens Film Festival. Her films showed with distinction
at The Kids Space Museum in Pasadena as well at The Wondercon
Theatre in San Francisco. Elizabeth usually casts many roles
from her students since they have a rapport, common working
language. Her book Private Stories Monologues for Young Actors
ages 8-16 is sold at Samuel French Bookstores, Borders and Barnes
and Noble.
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patrick munoz
 Patrick
teaches Nuts and Bolts, the foundational acting class at SSAS. He is a highly regarded voice and speech coach in Hollywood
as well as the resident speech teacher at the studio.
He is a graduate
of Dartmouth College and holds an MFA in Acting from Temple
University in Philadelphia. As an actor, he has appeared in
CBS' "The Agency" and regional theaters across the
country, including the Berkshires, Meadowbrook, Old Globe, and
many times at the Laguna Playhouse.
As a voiceover artist, Patrick has recorded for Blockbuster,
Sega, The Luxor Hotel, and the educational series "PK's
Place".
Patrick has been a dialect coach for CBS's top-rated series
"Without a Trace" and coached actors for big-budget
as well as independent movies, including "Van Helsing",
"Imagining Argentina", "Masked and Anonymous",
and "Head in the Clouds". He has coached for "LA
Dragnet" and was featured on the Discovery Channel's "Joy
of Lex". His clients include Penelope Cruz, Eva Longoria,
and Roselyn Sanchez.
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Tony Rago
 Tony
Rago has been studying and acting since the age of nine. With
over fifty theatrical productions under his belt, Tony moved
to Los Angeles from Chicago to focus on film and television.
He has produced and directed three short films, one of which was an homage
to the great silent comedians and another which received critical
acclaim, as well as festival awards. Tony performs live theater and comedy around Los Angeles, as well as traveling around the country with a scripted and
improvised murder mystery, and also he recently went over seas to Bosnia
with the show to perform for the troops on a USO tour. He joined the
Scott Sedita Acting Studios first as a student, then as a staffmember, and has been seen in the
live game show The Comedy Competition.
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Josh Rappaport
 Josh, a native of Los Angeles, began his acting career in 1985.
While studying with two of the great acting teachers, Jeff Corey
and Roy London, Josh started working as an actor in TV and film. But
he is best known for his appearances in numerous national TV
commercials.
While continuing to pursue an acting career, Josh began working
at Danny Goldman Casting as a Commercial Casting Director. Josh has
spent the last twenty years in the casting room. He has conducted
over 100,000 auditions.
Josh has been teaching commercial technique for the past six
years at Scott Sedita Acting Studios.
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