 Mr. Stengel has been an instructor with A.C.T. Studios since the spring of 2005. He has been an instructor and a long-time volunteer Director for the SAG Conservatory for over 16 years. He is a professional artist with experience on both sides of the camera. Mr. Stengel has directed, written, produced, cast, and coordinated talent and stunts in productions of various sizes. He has also appeared in dozens of film, television, stage, and radio projects.
Mr. Stengel is President of Soxon Productions, a member of the Native American Caucus, and of SAG and AFTRA for over 20 years. He is also a founding member of both The New Media Revolution production group and the edgy sketch improv group, Generation Next.
He is also a world class self defense expert, having appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show, CNN, and in the LA Times, and other local and worldwide media.
Mr. Stengel is an accomplished mountaineer and world adventure traveler, having been to over 30 countries and islands. He has attended over 20 schools, been to over 600 concerts, and has taken over 3,000 photographs of exotic people, places and perspectives. He has been caught in border wars and stranded on remote islands. Of the two, Mr. Stengel prefers to be stranded. |
Timothy Lampros
Tony Stengel
Instructor: Casting and the
Business of Acting
Frank Tammariello, DGA
Instructor: On-Camera and Commercials
Johni Hurst - Registrar
Manny Placeres - Studio Technician
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 Mr. Tammariello has been an instructor with A.C.T. Studios since the spring of 2006. He has been employed as a Producer and Executive Producer on staff and on freelance assignments for over fifteen years in the Los Angeles offices of four national ad agencies, and has produced commercials for major advertisers. He has directed over 100 commercials for blue chip advertisers.
Mr. Tammariello was one of the first wave of advertising agency producers to cross over from producing to directing spots in the nineties. He has directed a long list of famous faces in the comedy world, including Ellen Degeneres, Roseanne Barr, Drew Carey, George Lopez, Oprah, the late John Candy and Phil Hartman, Terri Garr, Martin Short, Eugene Levy, Bryan Cranston, Rita Rudner, Dom Deluise, in award-winning commercials.
In the span of his career in the ad world, Mr. Tammariello has received Clio awards, Belding Awards, One Show awards, has been featured in the pages of Ad Age, Adweek, and Creativity magazine. He has also participated in round tables at the New York Art Directors Club, spoken at panels hosted by ad guru Donny Deutsch and even taught classes at the Learning Annex on the subject of commercial production.
His work has been shortlisted by the AICP (Association of Independent Commercial Producers) for inclusion in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art.
Since 2002 Frank has been Producer/Director of his own production company, NEW OPTION, creating commercials, documentaries, short films, and actor demo scenes. His work was in the official selection of three LA area film festivals last year.
Mr. Tammariello has been a member of the DGA since 1988 and SAG since 1975. He has also completed writing a screwball romantic comedy screenplay, "I Got Lucky", which is currently in development at SweetLea Pictures.
Mr. Tammariello in action!
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