Jayd is an actor, director, teacher and  private coach. He has served for the past three years as Director of Programs and Conservatories for The Actors Center where he placed actors in classes and workshops with some of the most respected names in theater and actor training. Olympia Dukakis, Dianne Weist, Lloyd Richards, Chris Bayes as well as teachers and directors from Moscow Art Theater, the Royal Shakespeare Company, Juilliard, Yale School of Drama, NYU, New Moscow Theatre and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts.

Jayd attributes the core of his teaching to the training he received from RonVan Lieu (Chair of Acting, Yale School of Drama), Lloyd Richards

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(former Artistic Director, Yale Repertory) and Earle Gister (former Chair of Acting, Yale School of Drama). Jayd spent two years with Mr. Gister as a teaching assistant before joining the faculty at The Actors Center in 2004. While at The Actors Center, Jayd also completed a three year mentorship with J. Michael Miller (founder of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts) in Actor Training & Development.

Jayd has been coaching privately and teaching in New York City for the past three years. He also enjoys a career as a professional actor.

Kate Forbes
Broadway credits for Kate Forbes (The Provok'd Wife) include The School for Scandal (Theatre World Award), Inherit the Wind, Macbeth, Sight Unseen. Off Broadway: Love, Janis (Village Theater), Othello (with Live Schreiber, Public Theater), The Entertainer (Classic Stage Company). Regional: The Night of the Iguana (Guthrie Theater); Candida, Learned Ladies, (McCarter Theatre). Other: Beth Henley's Exposed (New York Stage and Film), The Scent of Roses (ACT), As You Like It (Shakespeare Theatre), Skylight (Playmaker's Rep), A Streetcar Named Desire (DTC). Two tours with The Acting Company in A Doll's House and Twelfth Night, as well as productions at Yale RepertoryTheatre, Hartford Stage, Center Stage, Berkshire Theater Festival, and Great Lakes Theater Festival. Faculty: NYU Masters Acting Program, the Public Theater / Shakespeare Lab.

J. Michael Miller
Michael is an actor and director, was a co-founder of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts in 1966. He served there for thirty years as Director of the Theatre Program and as the Dean of Academic Affairs, and then took on the causes to which he currently devotes himself. He was the Founding President in 1972 of the League of Professional Theatre Training Programs, and in 1978 founded the Alliance for the Development of Theatre Artists, Inc.

Charles Tuthill
For the last fifteen years, Charles Tuthill has been making his living as an actor.

Six years ago, he began teaching, and has taught at many leading acting schools including: Atlantic Theater Company, The Stella Adler Conservatory, International Film and Television Workshops, New York University, The American Musical and Dramatic Academy and The Actors Center.

Charles has also assisted the Academy Award nominated actress, Laura Linney on the sets of Further Tales of the City, The Mothman Prophecies, and The Life of David Gale, starring Kevin Spacey and Kate Winslet.


Grace Zandarski
Grace Zandarski has been teaching Fitzmaurice Voicework for several years in New York City. She is currently also a lecturer at Yale School of Drama, and has previously taught at the American Repertory Theatre Institute at Harvard University, Fordham University, NYU's Cap 21, and Queens College. Recent coaching credits include the Off-Broadway production of Little Eyolf. Grace does private coaching and consulting with actors, boradcasters, and business peopl e from a wide variety of disciplines. She is a working actor, recently starring in Tom Stoppard's Indian Ink at the Wilma Theater for which she was nominated for an award.