Ivana Chubbuck is the founder and director of the Ivana Chubbuck Studio and creator of the cutting edge and widely adopted Chubbuck Technique. There are 16 ongoing classes at the Ivana Chubbuck Studio, ranging from introductory to master classes. The Studio maintains a focus on producing and nurturing working actors, writers, and directors in a rigorous professional environment. It is our mission to empower our students with the tools to become successful and to make dynamic, empowered choices in their work.Some of the actors Ivana has worked with during her 35-plus year career include Academy Award winners and nominees:

Ivana's students are well represented at the Academy Awards, Emmys, Golden Globes, Tonys, and many other international movie, television, and theater awards. Her work with Judith Light on her Broadway shows garnered Ms. Light two consecutive Tony Award wins, the first time in the history of the Tony Awards that has ever happened. Some of the actors she's coached are: Halle Berry, Brad Pitt, Charlize Theron, Sylvester Stallone to name a few. 

Although she has a very large body of work, with 30 years working as an actor, director and writer, most of the world knows Valerie as DORIS SCHWARTZ from the television series FAME. She became a globally recognized star in a role that moved deeply into the hearts of people young and old, inspiring both professional artists and artists yet to be realized.

Having resided mostly on the other side of the camera for the last seventeen years, Valerie recently entered the wonderful world of short form films with TRIXIE'S SCORE, premiering at Holly Shorts festival and picked up distribution by Shorts International. As a Writer/Director she penned BELTERS for Portfolio Films America; created THE MONEY SHOT, optioned by Lion's Gate Television; AN UNEXPECTED GIFT for The Hallmark Channel and NORWEGIAN WOOD, a teen comedy for Kinetic Arts. Valerie directed the action-thriller BOUND BY LIES, with Kristie Swanson and Stephen Baldwin for Lightening Entertainment. ​Her other work as an actor includes having been a television-series regular on YOU AGAIN, ALL IS FORGIVEN, HOTEL, FIRST AND TEN, DREAM ON, and BEGGARS AND CHOOSERS as well as multiple movies made for television. In films, she made her debut in the disco classic THANK GOD IT'S FRIDAY. Her other films include, WELCOME HOME ROXY CARMICHAEL, BAR HOPPING and ROCK STAR. She is a long time improvisor and performs yearly with various groups.

Valerie has worked as an on set coach for both actors and directors in films that include THE STONE ANGEL with Ellen Burstyn and GRETA with Hilary Duff. She travels extensively teaching at colleges and universities as well as conducting her own workshops for actors, writers and directors. She is an adjunct faculty member at UCLA, The Maine Media Workshop and has been guest lecturer at multiple institutions. She created MASTER CLASS for Euro Disney and is part of the International faculty of The Asian Academy of Film and Television in New Delhi, India.

Dana Vahle AKA Dirk Vahle is a stunt performer and fly's helicopters, airplanes and seaplanes in motion picture and television shows. Dana transitioned from male to female in 2011. She is a member of the SAG-AFTRA LBGT Committee and Stunt & Safety Committee. Dana also has won the World Stunt Award for an action scene in the movie "Behind Enemy Lines". She has worked some of the biggest in the biz including "Transformers", "Casino", "Pearl Habor", "Man Under Fire", "Flight Plan",  "Enemy Of the State", "Man On The Moon", "The People Vs. Larry Flynt", Austin Powers: Goldmember"  to name a few.

Fiona Goodwin is an LA Based stand up comic who has appeared at The Comedy Store, Flappers, The Colony Theatre, and The Electric Lodge. In her latest incarnation, she has gathered up all of these delicious moments and shaped them into a solo play that chronicles her spiritual, social, sexual, and psychological journey on the road to living comfortably in her skin and life as a gay woman. Called "A Very British Lesbian". 

As rugged as he is genteel, Patrick Kilpatrick has been one of the finest screen/television character actors and villains of his generation. His action film appearances span a multitude of genres and embrace an international Who's Who of leading men: The Replacement Killers against Yun-Fat Chow; Arnold Schwarzenegger and James Caan in Eraser ; Last Man Standing opposite Bruce Willis; Under Siege 2: Dark Territory opposite Steven Segal; The Presidio opposite Sean Connery and Mark Harmon; two award-winning and highly rated original cable westerns opposite Tom Selleck, Last Stand at Saber River  and Crossfire Trail; one western opposite Sam Elliot and Kate Capshaw, HBO's Premiere Films adaptation of Louis L'Amour's The Quick and the Dead; and the ever-popular action mainstay Death Warrant opposite Jean-Claude Van Damme, as "The Sandman". He has even done battle with the largest mammal on earth in Free Willy 3: The Rescue.

Author and motivational speaker Stuart K Robinson shares his "New Rules of Thinking" to examine the futility of trying to alter the system, your boss, your significant other or your life when the most powerful and painless way to effect change is to adjust your beliefs, your blueprint, your actions... yourself. Outlining the fundamental modes of thinking that will empower any person to overcome the boundaries that limit possibility, It All Begins with "I" frees the reader from the non-productive thoughts and behaviors that actually create obstacles.

Erik Audé an actor, stuntman and professional poker player who was arrested and imprisoned in Pakistan for drug trafficking. An innocent man, who later found he was duped into carrying opium. His documentary 3 YEARS IN PAKISTAN: THE ERIK AUDE STORY. 

He is best know for his role in Clint Eastwood's AMERICAN SNIPER starring Bradley Cooper. Now he has a recurring role on MAYANS M. C. including THIS IS US, THE LAST SHIP, SNOWFALL, MAJOR CRIMES, NCIS: L. A. And the hit feature films DUNKIRK, DIVERGENT and POSEIDON. 

Guy Branum is the creator and host of truTV's Talk Show The Game Show, a hilarious mashup of two beloved television formats that pits comedians and celebrities against each other for the title of "Best Guest of the Night." You may also know him from his recurring segment "No More Mr. Nice Gay" on Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell, serving as "Staff Homosexual" on Chelsea Lately and his performance as Natalie Portman's sassy gay friend in the feature film No Strings Attached. Guy has also appeared on @Midnight, The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore, The Meltdown with Jonah and Kumail, Road to Roast and Debate Wars. As a TV writer, Guy spent three seasons writing for Hulu's The Mindy Project and was a producer during the show's last season. Other TV writing credits include A League of Their Own from Amazon, Punk'd and Awkward on MTV, Another Period on Comedy Central, Billy on the Street on truTV and Fashion Police on E!

Candy Clark an Oscar Nominated for the film AMERICAN GRAFFITI. She has worked with some of the best directors in the biz including David Lynch TWIN PEAKS, Steven Soderbergh THE INFORMANT!, David Fincher ZODIAC, James Foley AT CLOSE RANGE, John Badham BLUE THUNDER, Michael Winner THE BIG SLEEP, Jonathan Demme CITIZENS BAND, Nicolas Roeg THE MAN WHO FELL FROM EARTH, John Huston FAT CTY and of course George Lucas AMERICAN GRAFFITI. She has guest starred on some of the most popular shows on TV from  CRIMINAL MINDS to MATLOCK to MAGNUM P.I., to name a few.