TEENS-ON-CAMERA (ages 12-18) - 1:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.

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More about the The Actors Ohana...

Located in the heart of Kakaako, {Show Me} halfway between the Victoia Ward and Ala Moana shopping Centers, TAO: The Actors Ohana is a name you can trust. TAO will teach your child the On-Camera skills they need to become working actors. Students participate in fun exercises, including improvisations, roll playing, imagination games, mock auditions and on-camera acting, in small classes with lots of individual attention to help instill confidence.

TAO students have appeared in films like "Indiana Jones & the Crystal Skull", "50 First Dates", "Pearl Harbor", "Lilo & Stitch", "Tears of the Sun"

and TV shows like ABC's "LOST", NBC's "Hawaii", FOX's "North Shore", "Baywatch", "ER", etc.

But we are just as proud of our teachers...

James McCarthy (Children’s acting teacher) - earned a Masters Degree in Education from Harvard University, with a special emphasis in training individuals for performance. James' innovative approach has earned praise from college presidents, internationally recognized scientists and civic leaders.

James has taught drama to children throughout Oahu under the artist-in residence program for the D.O.E. He has also taught acting to adults and teens for many years. He has significant teaching experience at every level of the educational system. James is currently featured opposite Kiefer Sutherland, in the film "To End All Wars".

Jeanne Rogers (Director of Youth Education / Children’s acting teacher) – Jeanne trained at the world renowned Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre in New York, under legendary acting teacher, Sanford Meisner.

A professional actress for 30 years, Jeanne performed in leading roles opposite many well-known actors such as Nick Nolte, Don Johnson, Ron Howard, Henry Winkler, Marion Ross, Ted Lange, Michael Learned, Margaret Hamilton and many others.

Jeanne has extensive experience teaching children. Over the years she has taught acting programs at the Honolulu Theatre for Youth, Temple Emanu-El, Marianas Bahai School in Guam and the Free Arts Clinic in Los Angeles, to name a few. Jeanne currently teaches the drama program at the Waldorf High School, in Kahala.

Scott Rogers: (Head Instructor) served as an Acting Coach for 20th Century Fox Studios under a 3-year, exclusive contract. This past year he served as Acting Coach on the soon-to-be-released feature film “Princess Ka`iulani” starring Barry Pepper, Will Patton, and Q’orianka Kilcher. Scott has coached principal actors, for more than 3000 hours on the sets of motion pictures and national television shows. He has produced, cast, and/or directed more than 100 professional productions and written, directed, and produced dozens of TV commercials. He was the full-time, on-set, Acting Coach for the TV series North Shore and was previously the Acting Coach for the hit TV show Baywatch.

In the mid-1980s Scott began to get hired by actors, studios, and production companies to Coach/Produce/Direct hundreds of working actors, including: Donna Mills (Knotts Landing), Corbin Bernsen (L.A. Law), Sharon Lawrence (NYPD Blue), Steve Allen, Jayne Meadows, Pat Morita (Karate Kid), Brooke Burns (Dog Eat Dog), Dominic Purcell (Prison Break), Charles Grodin, Catherine Oxenberg, Susan Blakesley, Richard Kline, Vincent Gardenia, Charles Grodin, Florence Henderson, Robert Reed, John Astin, Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., Ted Lange (Love Boat), Denver Pyle (Dukes of Hazard), Timothy Bottoms, Tony Bennett & many others.

In 1994, after living and working in Los Angeles for more than 25 years, Scott moved to Hawai`i with his wife, Jeanne. They opened The Academy in 2000, to train actors for film and television. Scott's students include series regulars on shows like LOST North Shore, and Baywatch and actors appearing in: Indiana Jones & the Crystal Skull, 50 First Dates, ER, Pearl Harbor, Memoirs of a Geisha, The Rundown, Tears of the Sun, Blue Crush, Lilo & Stich, and many more. Scott still serves as acting coach on many of the film and television projects that shoot in the islands (some $200 million worth of production shoots here, each year).

Scott is a member of Actors Equity Association, AFTRA and sits on the National Board of Directors for the Screen Actors Guild. He also serves on the board of directors for the Hawai'i branch of SAG, where he is chair of the SAG Conservatory. He's taught acting to hundreds of actors, in classes all over the world. He has auditioned more than 15,000 actors for various productions and his students appear on TV, Film, & on Broadway, daily.