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American Academy For Dramatic Arts
The American Academy of Dramatic Arts (AADA) is a private performing arts conservatory with two locations, one in Manhattan and one in Los Angeles. The academy offers an associate degree in occupational studies and teaches drama and related arts in the areas of theater, film, and television. Students also have the opportunity to audition for the third-year theater company. Students can usually transfer completed credits to another college or university to finish a bachelor's degree if they choose. History The oldest acting school in the English-speaking world, the academy in New York City was founded in 1884 by Franklin Haven Sargent, a graduate of Harvard University and professor of speech and elocution at his alma mater. Sargent's vision was to establish a school to train actors for the stage. Its first home was the original Lyceum Theatre on what is now Park Avenue South. In 1963, the school moved to its current home, a landmark building designed by the American Rena ...
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Australian Academy Of Dramatic Art
The Australian Institute of Music – Dramatic Arts (AIMDA), formerly known as the Australian Academy of Dramatic Arts (AADA), is a drama school in Sydney. It offers a degree in acting and theatre-making as a department of the Australian Institute of Music (AIM). History AIM Dramatic Arts was formerly known as the Australian Academy of Dramatic Arts (AADA) and was established in 1983. It became the first private drama school in Australia to gain State vocational education accreditation, in 1987. In 2006, AADA became a department of the Australian Institute of Music (AIM), and in 2013 was rebranded as Australian Institute of Music – Dramatic Arts. From 2007, Andrew Davidson was the Head of the School, and in 2013 Peta Downes took over as Head of Dramatic Arts. The degree In 2007, consultation with the theatre industry began to create a unique, university-level qualification. The growing independent theatre scene in Sydney and other Australian capitals was now to be support ...
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American Renaissance
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Don Amendolia
Don Amendolia (born February 1, 1945 in Glassboro, New Jersey) is an American actor. Career He played Big Al Kennedy in NBC's soap opera '' Sunset Beach'', had a recurring role on ''Twin Peaks'', and appeared in one episode of ''Cheers''. Amendolia directed one episode of ''Growing Pains'' and two episodes of ''Harry and the Hendersons''. He has appeared on Broadway in '' 33 Variations'', '' Stepping Out'', and '' My One and Only''. He directed the rotating cast of the Off-Broadway show, ''Wicked''. He also played the Wizard on the second national tour of the musical ''Wicked''. He played his first performance on December 9, 2009, replacing Tom McGowan Thomas McGowan (born July 26, 1959) is an American actor. He first became known for his stage career both on and off Broadway. In 1991, he was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in .... Amendolia gave acting lessons and assigned workouts to the cast of the fi ...
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Rae Allen
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Derek Ahonen
Derek Ahonen is an American playwright, director, producer, and filmmaker. He is the founder of ''The Amoralists Theatre Company'' in NYC. Ahonen is most known for his plays ''The Pied Pipers of The Lower East Side'', ''Happy In The Poorhouse'', ''The Bad And The Better'', and ''The Qualification of Douglas Evans'' which have had numerous runs in New York and have been translated, adapted, and performed across three different continents. His plays are published by Indie Theatre Now and Playscripts Inc. Early life The son of Anna, a Children's Theatre Director, Ahonen was born in Chicago, Illinois. Having grown up around the theatre, Ahonen began performing in his mother's plays from a young age. After graduating from Waubonsie Valley High School, Ahonen moved to New York City to continue his education at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. Ahonen married in 2019 and stated he lived for a time at a Congregational Church. Career with The Amoralists In 2006, Ahonen formed ...
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Marla Adams
Marla Adams (born August 28, 1938) is an American television actress, best known for her roles as Belle Clemens on ''The Secret Storm'', from 1968 to 1974, and as Dina Abbott Mergeron on ''The Young and the Restless'', for which she received Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series. Life and career Adams was born in Ocean City, New Jersey and began her career on stage. She attended American Academy of Dramatic Arts. Adams appeared on Broadway in the 1958 production of ''The Visit'' at the Morosco Theatre with Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne. She later made her film debut, appearing opposite Natalie Wood in the period drama ''Splendor in the Grass'' (1961). Her other film credits including '' Special Delivery'' (1976) and '' Gotcha!'' (1985). Adams is best known for her daytime soap opera roles. She starred as Belle Clemens on ''The Secret Storm'' from 1968 to 1974. As Belle Clemens, she was the show's reigning villainess for the last years of its run ...
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Jay Acovone
Jay Acovone (born August 20, 1955) is an American actor. Among his most famous roles is Charles Kawalsky in the TV series Stargate SG-1. Personal life Acovone was born in New York City. His family later moved to Mahopac, New York where his parents owned a dry-cleaning business. Career Acovone has over 100 credits to his name spanning four decades of work in film and television. His television appearances include ''Search for Tomorrow'' as Brian Emerson; ''Beauty and the Beast'' where he played D.A. Joe Maxwell over the show's three season run; and '' Hollywood Beat''. In a connection to his ''Beauty and the Beast'' co-star Linda Hamilton, he can be seen playing the officer pulling over the TX Terminator in ''Terminator 3 ''Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines'' is a 2003 science fiction action film directed by Jonathan Mostow. Starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Nick Stahl, Claire Danes, and Kristanna Loken, it is the third installment in the ''Terminator'' fra ...''. In ...
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Walter Abel
Walter Abel (June 6, 1898 – March 26, 1987) was an American film, stage and radio actor. Life Abel was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, the son of Christine (née Becker) and Richard Michael Abel. Abel graduated from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts where he had studied in 1917 and joined a touring company. His brother Alfred died in 1922 from tuberculosis contracted while serving overseas in World War I. Abel was married to concert harpist Marietta Bitter. Career Abel made his film debut in 1918 with a small part in ''Out of a Clear Sky''. He made his Broadway debut in ''Forbidden'' in 1919. In 1924 he appeared in two Eugene O'Neill plays simultaneously: ''Bound East for Cardiff'' at the Provincetown Playhouse and ''Desire Under the Elms'' at the Greenwich Village Theater. His many theatre credits include ''As You Like It'' (1923), William Congreve's ''Love for Love'' (1925), Anton Chekhov's The Seagull (1929-1930), ''Mourning Becomes Electra'' (1929), Kaufman and H ...
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Television
Television, sometimes shortened to TV, is a telecommunication medium for transmitting moving images and sound. The term can refer to a television set, or the medium of television transmission. Television is a mass medium for advertising, entertainment, news, and sports. Television became available in crude experimental forms in the late 1920s, but only after several years of further development was the new technology marketed to consumers. After World War II, an improved form of black-and-white television broadcasting became popular in the United Kingdom and the United States, and television sets became commonplace in homes, businesses, and institutions. During the 1950s, television was the primary medium for influencing public opinion.Diggs-Brown, Barbara (2011''Strategic Public Relations: Audience Focused Practice''p. 48 In the mid-1960s, color broadcasting was introduced in the U.S. and most other developed countries. The availability of various types of archival st ...
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Film
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photography, photographing actual scenes with a movie camera, motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of computer-generated imagery, CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still imag ...
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Jim Henson Company Lot
The Jim Henson Company Lot, formerly A&M Studios, is a studio property located just south of the southeast corner of North La Brea Avenue and Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood. Originally established by film star Charlie Chaplin, the property served as Charlie Chaplin Studios from 1917 to 1953, which later earned the site designation as a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument. After being sold by Chaplin in 1953, the property went through several changes in ownership and has served at various times as Kling Studios, the Red Skelton Studios, the shooting location for the '' Adventures of Superman'' and ''Perry Mason'' television series. From 1966 to 1999, it was the headquarters for A&M Records and the location of A&M Recording Studios. Since 2000, it has been the headquarters of The Jim Henson Company, including the Henson Soundstage and Henson Recording Studios. History Construction In October 1917, Charlie Chaplin announced plans to build his own film studio at the southeast ...
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Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles ( ; es, Los Ángeles, link=no , ), often referred to by its initials L.A., is the largest city in the state of California and the second most populous city in the United States after New York City, as well as one of the world's most populous megacities. Los Angeles is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Southern California. With a population of roughly 3.9 million residents within the city limits , Los Angeles is known for its Mediterranean climate, ethnic and cultural diversity, being the home of the Hollywood film industry, and its sprawling metropolitan area. The city of Los Angeles lies in a basin in Southern California adjacent to the Pacific Ocean in the west and extending through the Santa Monica Mountains and north into the San Fernando Valley, with the city bordering the San Gabriel Valley to it's east. It covers about , and is the county seat of Los Angeles County, which is the most populous county in the United States with an estim ...
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