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Mike Lemon, CSA
(Film Acting, Actor Training Fest)
Mike has been a Casting Director for over 22 years, overseeing the casting of over 11,000 projects including Philadelphia, The Sixth Sense, Signs, Beloved, Twelve Monkeys, In Her Shoes and Annapolis .
He is also a professional actor, a screenwriter, a director and a prize-winning filmmaker. He's been teaching for over 14 years and is now teaching on the West coast as well here at MLC.
Donna Marrazzo
(Basics of Acting)
Donna has been on the faculty at Mike Lemon Casting for ten years. She has an acting Studio in NY, Donna Marrazzo Studio, which she founded in 2001. In
addition, she is the creative director of New Jersey Repertory Studio, in Long Branch, NJ, and is on the faculty at Adelphi University. She also enjoys coaching her many private clients, both actors and
those in the corporate environment, Donna has been an actor for nearly thirty years, working in film, television and commercials.
Sandy Stefanowicz
(Teen Classes, Weekend Workshops,)
Our education coordinator and a casting director here at MLC. Sandy holds an MA in Theatre from Villanova University. Before joining the staff at MLC in 1999, she headed up
the award-winning Ridley Drama Group, where she directed for the stage and coached hundreds of aspiring performers over three decades. Sandy has studied acting with Irene Baird, Robert Hedley, James J.
Christy and Mike Lemon and has worked on stage, in films and commercials.
Charlie Roney
(Voiceover Technique)
Charlie has been a successful voice over artist and on-camera spokes person for over 20 years. He
holds a BA in Theatre and Speech from Allentown College. (now DeSales University) and an MFA in Theatre Performance from Penn State. His distinctive, multi-faceted voice has represented Giant Foods,
Temple Hospital, Response Insurance, Dupont and Aventis Pharmaceuticals, to name a few. Learn the tricks of the trade in the very competitive VO industry from this dynamic teacher.
Diane Walsh
(Screenwriting)
After ten years of teaching screenwriting at UCLA and AFI, Diane is now Associate Professor for Screenwriting at the University
of the Arts. Before coming to Philadelphia six years ago, Diane spent 20 years working in the film and television business in Los Angeles. She has written, bought, sold, pitched, programmed, packaged and
produced. She brings an unprecedented range of professional perspectives on the process to her classes. Response Insurance, Dupont and Avantis Pharmaceuticals, to name a few. Learn the tricks of the
trade in the very competitive VO industry from this dynamic teacher.
Terry Marsden
(Children's Classes, Commercial Workshop, Actor Training Fest)
Terry has been on stage or in front of a camera for over
30 years, as well having a 29-year career as an English teacher. For the last two years, she has been the Dean of Students at Ridley High School in Delaware County, where she has spent her entire career.
She has been on the teaching staff at MLC for five years and has been in several commercials, industrials, and independent films. Terry also sings professionally in the area and continues to pursue her
acting career.
Drucie McDaniel
(Intro to Acting for Film, Actor Training Fest, Film Audition Technique)
Drucie McDaniel celebrates over twenty-five
years working professionally in film, television and theatre. Screen acting credits include Girl Interrupted, Fallen, Twelve Monkeys, Jersey Girl, Law and Order, Law and Order: SVU, All My Children,
as well as national TV and radio commercials. Outside of MikeLemon, teaching credits include Walnut Street Theatre, The Actors Center, Arcadia University and the University of the Arts (where she is in
her fifteenth year as a Associate Professor of Acting).
Dafna Yachin
(Introduction to Acting for Film)
Dafna is the Creative Director for Lunchbox Communications and has been a
writer and director for 15 years. She attributes much of her success and inspiration to improv. Dafna was in the ensemble improvisational theater group Free Fall, in San Francisco, and had the pleasure
of freezing on stage at The Other Caf柗?n front of the likes of Dana Carvy and Robin Williams. Her finest improv performance was being the last on stage with Gregg Proops (What's My Line) during an
orchestrated story exercise at a Bay Area Theatre Sports performance. She has been lucky enough to be taught by great improvisational teachers like Terry Sands and Rafe Chase.
Allison Green
(Voice & Speech)
Allison Green has, in her thirty-six year career, appeared in over one hundred and thirty-five plays from both the classic and contemporary theatre and makes her
living as a voice over and on-camera artist. She has served on the faculties of some of the country's finest educational institutions, including New York University, Penn State and the University of
Pennsylvania as well as countless conservatory programs and professional training studios, including her own. Allison trained in New York and London with such 20th Century luminaries as Stella Adler, John Allen, Cicely Berry, Ben Kingsley and Laurence Olivier.
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