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NYFA FACULTY HIGHLIGHTS
NYFA Faculty Highlights
The success of the Film Academy is due in no small part to the excellence of its more than 400 faculty members. They are award-winning professionals who inspire students with their passion and experience
in their craft. Faculty members received their undergraduate degrees from esteemed institutions including Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Standford, Brown, Dartmouth, and Cornell; and their graduate degrees from NYU Tisch School of the Arts, USC School of Cinematic Arts, the American Film Institute, UCLA, and Columbia University, amongst others. They are working lm directors, actors, cinematographers, Broadway performers, photographers, animators, screenwriters, journalists, documentarians, editors, and game designers. Regardless of their academic pedigree
and professional background, the essential quality
of the faculty is their extraordinary ability to engage and nurture students as they develop as visual and performing artists. This page provides a small glimpse of some of our extraordinary faculty and their work. Please take your time to review the faculty pages of the Film Academy’s website for a full list: nyfa.edu
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1. Adam Nimoy, Director
“For The Love Of Spock (Documentary),” “Gilmore Girls,” “Party of Five,” “Ally McBeal,” “NYPD Blue,” “Sliders,” “Babylon 5,” “The Outer Limits,” “Star Trek: The Next Generation”
2. Ken Lerner, Actor
“Silicon Valley,” “American Crime Story,” “The Big Bang Theory,” “The Mentalist,” “Two and a Half Men,” “Castle,” “Without A Trace,” “NCIS,” “The West Wing,” “Boston Legal,” “NYPD Blue,” “Scrubs,” “ER,” “Ally McBeal,” “Will & Grace,” “Chicago Hope”
3. Matthew Modine, Actor
“Stranger Things,” “The Dark Knight Rises,” “The West Wing,” “Any Given Sunday,” “Full Metal Jacket”
4. Craig Caton, Special Effects
“Jurassic Park” (puppeteer), “Batman Returns” (puppeteer), “Tremors” (key mechanical designer/ puppeteer), “A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master” (creature crew), “Predator 1, 2” (creature crew/ puppeteer), “Children of the Corn” (creature crew), “Ghostbusters” (creature crew)
5. Mira Furlan, Actress
“Law & Order: LA,” “Lost,” “NCIS,” “Babylon 5,” “Spider-Man (TV Series)”
6. Kristy Cates, Broadway Actress
“Wicked,” “Charlie and The Chocolate Factory,” “Finding Neverland”
7. Victor Verhaeghe, Actor
“Boardwalk Empire,” “Blue Bloods,” “The Good Wife,” “Damages,” “Bored to Death,” “Ugly Betty,” “Fringe,” “Sex and the City,” “Spin City,” “Law & Orders”
8. Isabella Hoffman, Actress
“The Flash (TV Series),” “Suits,” “Criminal Minds,” “Grey’s Anatomy,” “Lie To Me,” “CSI: Miami,” “Ghost Whisperer,” “JAG,” “Fire y,” “Providence,” “The Practice,” “Party of Five,” “Dear John”
9. Deidre Goodwin, Broadway Actress “Chicago,” ”A Chorus Line,” “Nine”
10. John Zuur Platten, Creative Director Pokemon Go, Ingress
11. Rich Thorne, Visual Effects
“Fantastic Four” (production executive), “AVP: Alien vs. Predator” (production executive), “I, Robot” (production executive), “X-Men 1” (production executive), “Daredevil” (visual effects supervisor/visual effects unit director), “Planet of the Apes” (production executive), “Fight Club” (production executive)
12. Anthony Richmond, Cinematographer, A.S.C., B.S.C. “The Man Who Fell to Earth,” “Legally Blonde,” “Men of Honor,” “Don’t Look Now,” “The Sandlot,” “Good Luck Chuck,” “The Sweetest Thing,” “Someone Like You,” “Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules”
13. Bill Duke, Director
“Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit,” “Miami Vice (TV Series),” “The Twilight Zone,” “Matlock,” “Dallas,” Actor
“Law & Order: Special Victims Unit,”
“Cold Case,” “Lost,” “X-Men: The Last Stand,” “Battlestar Galactica,” “Get Rich or Die Tryin’,” “Payback,” “Menace II Society,” “Predator,” “Commando,” “American Gigolo,” “Charlie’s Angels” (TV Series), “Starsky & Hutch” (TV Series)
14. David Armstrong, Cinematographer “Saw I-VI”
15. Blanche Baker, Actress
“Sixteen Candles,” “Holocaust,” “Taking Chance”
16. Paul Brown, Producer/Writer
“The X-Files” (producer/writer), “Quantum Leap” (co- producer/writer), “Star Trek: Enterprise” (writer), “Star Trek: Voyager” (writer), “Camp Rock” (writer)