 Philip Charles MacKenzie
(Faculty)Philip will be teaching:
Acting for the Camera at the following locations:
UCLA
Univ of New Mexico Bio
A very prolific actor, director he is an MFA acting graduate from the NYU (now Tisch) School of the Arts where he studied with, among others,Olympia Dukakis, Peter Kass, Lloyd Richards, Mel Shapiro, Carl Weber, Nora Dunphy and Omar Shapli. In New York, he performed at the New York Shakespeare Festival, Joseph Papp's Public Theatre and Off-Broadway, notably in "El Grande DeCoca Cola" with Ron Silver and Jeff Goldblum. He has performed at the Arena Stage in Washington D.C., the Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, the Cleveland Playhouse, the Folger Theatre as well as other regional theatres throughout the United States. Coming to Los Angeles in the mid 1970's he moved into the world of television in all of its forms; variety, situation comedy, and drama appearing as a guest actor on many shows on television and as a regular cast member on NBC's "Six O'clock Follies" with Laurence Fishburne before moving to CBS and Gary David Goldberg's "Making the Grade" Mr. MacKenzie landed his most important role, that of the flamboyantly Donald Maltby on the critically acclaimed and groundbreaking comedy series "Brothers" for the Showtime Cable for which he was nominated four times and received the Cable Ace Award for Best Actor in a Comedy Series. With that series Mr. MacKenzie moved to directing and garnered a Best Director nomination in the last two seasons of the series. This led to Mr. Mackenzie?s extensive directing work in the sitcom and single camera half hour genre on hundreds of episodes of "Roseanne", "Frasier", "Suddenly Susan", "Just Shoot Me", "My Wife and Kids", "Dharma and Greg", "George Lopez" and "According to Jim". Then in trhe late 90?s he directed the feature film, "Attention Shoppers". All the while his directing career was flourishing Mr. Mackenzie kept his roots while teaching Acting for Directors at the Loft Studio in Los Angeles, giving directors the tools and language to be better able to communicate with actors. Most recently he was on the faculty of the Actors Center in New York where he taught THE ACTOR ON FILM. Given his vast experience Philip is an actor?s director as he has a unique perspective on what it takes for an actor to be effective on screen. We are pleased that he now heads up the Acting for the Camera Workshops in 2009. Please see IMBD for a complete list of all television and movies that Mr. MacKenzie has directed!
philipcharlesmackenzie.com
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