Andrew Young
Andrew Young
Andrew Young is an award-winning filmmaker, photographer, and professor based in New York City. His visual and lighting work has been featured in film festivals all over the world: from New York, Seoul, Edinburgh, and Cannes. Andrew loves hitting the campaign trail, having filmed and photographed progressive candidates like Senator Elizabeth Warren and former Congressman Joe Kennedy.
Andrew has an MFA in Cinematography from Boston University, and is now thrilled to be teaching film, photography, and visual storytelling at NYFA and SUNY WCC.
His creative work centers around the concept of magical realism, or finding meaning and magic in mundane things.
Joey Zangardi-Dixon
Joey Zangardi-Dixon
JOEY ZANGARDI-DIXON is the Director of Musical Theatre Recruitment at the New York Film Academy (NYFA) and has been in the entertainment industry for decades. He has worked in Casting for MTV, FOX, Nickelodeon, and NBC, as well as an Agent, Director, Teacher, and Performer. He now uses his industry experience to scout talent, teach workshops, and adjudicate acting and musical theatre auditions around the globe. Regional Performance Credits include: Les Miserables, The Wizard of Oz, Mame, 1776, Make Me a Song, On the Town, Follies, The Immigrant, and The Who’s Tommy. NYC Casting Credits include: VH1 / Vogue Fashion Awards, Say What Karaoke, Nickelodeon Live, Jail Bait, and MTV 2 Large. Joey has been fortunate to work on projects featuring celebrities, such as Madonna, Celine Dion, Britney Spears, Kelly Clarkson, Justin Timberlake, Christina Aguilera, Gwen Stefani and Jay-Z.
Tina Zaremba
Tina Zaremba
Tina Zaremba is a professional voice over actor. Based in New York City, she brings fifteen plus years of experience and has lent her voice to hundreds of commercials, promos, and corporate videos that include clients such as: BNY Mellon, Tide Plus Bleach, Airwick, Pantene, Blue Cross Blue Shield and the United Way.
In addition to working as a voice-over talent, Tina works with artists 1:1 as well as in workshops helping them create a blue print to developing a career in entertainment/new media as a soloprenuer.
She also teaches voice overs at New York Film Academy in NYC.
Tina studied theater at Western Michigan as well as The Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute where she was a recipient of the Sidney Kingsley scholarship.
When Tina isn’t providing her voice to various voice over work, you can find her venturing around Harlem with her husband; son and French Bulldog Jojo.
To learn more about Tina go to http://www.tinazaremba.com
Joshua Zecher-Ross
Joshua Zecher-Ross
JOSHUA ZECHER-ROSS has worked on over 100 productions in New York and around North America as a music director, supervisor, conductor, arranger, and electronic music designer, and has been a music director and accompanist at PCMT @ NYFA since 2014. Broadway: Be More Chill (conductor sub). Off-Broadway: Sweetee (music director/conductor), Broadway Bounty Hunter (rehearsal pianist). Recently: The Louder We Get directed by Lonny Price at Theatre Calgary. Other NY credits include songs in Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, and many shows at clubs and venues around NYC. Other regional credits include Barrington Stage Company, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, George Street Playhouse, Florida Studio Theatre, Sharon Playhouse, The Village Theatre in Seattle, WA, and The Little Theatre on the Square in Sullivan, Illinois. Joshua is also a musical theatre instructor at Actor Therapy, and he holds a Bachelor of music in vocal performance from the Steinhardt School at New York University. www.joshuazr.com @joshuazr1311
John Zuur Platten
John Zuur Platten
John is a creative director at Google’s Niantic Labs which makes Pokemon Go and Ingress. He is co-author of the acclaimed book The Ultimate Guide to Video Game Writing and Design. He has extensive experience in the game industry and film industry. John was a producer on the Sega CDs Ground Zero Texas and Double Switch. As a result of his relationship with Sega, John designed, produced and wrote the highly successful Sega CD Tomcat Alley. John’s work as designer, writer and producer on Johnny Mnemonic for Sony Imagesoft lead to an overall production agreement with Propaganda Code, during which he developed several titles for Philips Media. His many other game projects include The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay, (Xbox, PC), I am Alive (Xbox, PS3, PC), Scooby-Doo 2005, Constantine, Red Ninja and Taxi Driver.