About Our Staff

GINA WATKINS has U.S. and International experience in producing, casting, career management, and industry consulting. She has produced successful talent showcases with top Hollywood and San Diego agents, producers and casting directors including New Line Cinema, HBO, Showtime, Fox TV, Unsolved Mysteries and several feature films. She has a Masters Degree in Business and a Bachelor Degree in Communications. Gina's business acumen and passion to help people, drive her to create maximum career exposure for our actors.

THE COACHING STAFF consists of working actors with over 35 years of combined experience in all aspects of film and television acting, casting, directing, coaching and producing.

Stephen Walters is the Studio Director for the Actors Workshop Studios. He has studied acting in both Texas and California, receiving his BA in drama from Point Loma Nazarene University. He is a long time member of SAG. He has worked as a producer, director, and actor for over twenty years. His TV credits include roles in Veronica Mars, Desire: Table of Three, Tremors, The Invisible Man, 18 Wheels of Justice, and a national Levis Straus commercial. A few of his recent movie credits include Two Foreign Guys and How I Met the Lady from the Lake. His many credits on stage include Doody in Grease, Tony in West Side Story, Curly in Oklahoma, Peter in The Diary of Anne Frank, and Thoreau in The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail.

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