Head Instructor

Stuart is the head instructor at Stuart Rogers Studios. He is an award-winning writer/director who also spent years working as an actor. With more than fifty equity plays to his credit and many film and television appearances, Stuart has helped thousands of actors become more effective in their artistic and business approach to landing jobs. Both current and former students are television series regulars, appearing on Broadway and acting in feature films. His students have won Emmys, Golden Globes, Tonys, and Academy Awards. Stuart has taught classes at UCLA, the Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum and in many theaters internationally. He presently teaches year-round at Stuart Rogers’ Studios in North Hollywood, CA. Stuart was the founder, and artistic director of the multi-award winning theatre company, Theatre Tribe. Since the company came into existence, he directed a string of hit plays in their North Hollywood theater, including A Skull in Connemmara by Martin McDonagh (LA Times Critics' Choice, 7 Ovation Nominations), Paula Vogel’s The Long Christmas Ride Home for which he received the Ovation Award for best direction of a play, Craig Wright’s Recent Tragic Events (west-coast premiere & LA Times Critics Choice, Ovation award winning), the world- premiere of The Intern (L.A. Times Critics Choice), the west-coast premieres of two Lanford Wilson plays, Sympathetic Magic and Book of Days (both were LA Times Critics Choices). He received a Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award and a Garland Award for his direction of the latter. Some of the other plays Stuart directed with Theatre Tribe include: Memory of Water (west-coast premiere), Waiting for Lefty, and many others. Stuart’s films have been accepted to over 30 film festivals nationwide, and won awards at more than 20 of them.