Asking Old Friends for Advice

Jeremiah Comey

Spoke with my ex-acting teacher in Los Angeles, Jeremiah Comey. (http://www.jeremiahcomey.com/). I was hoping he could recommend an acting teacher in New York where Sydney could take class and he did. It’s been a while since I’ve spoken with him and it was great to get a minute to chat. He had to leave his groovy building at Hollywood and Vine. It was an old nightclub that had been converted into his studio. It was around the corner from the Pantages and I used to see Anngelyne’s Corvet parked on the street. Apparently her office was near there, too. There was a great juice place just down the street where you could get a mean celery, parley and cucumber juice!  I am so thankful for Jeremiah’s recommendation. It is really too bad that Sydney can’t take class form Jeremiah. He has a lot to teach. He helps develop so many wonderful actors in his classes.  I learned so much from him. Although I didn’t realize it at the time (because I didn’t know I would move behind the camera), he showed me how to get good performances with actors with great nuance nuances. I hope I can measure up to his teaching. He has a book out now called, The Art of Film Acting. I think I’ll get if for all of the actors cast so far. Jeremiah also told me about another one of his ex-students who is now directing. His name is Johnny Asuncion and from his IMDB page (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1193694/). He looks like he’s done quite a bit of work including a movie at festivals right now called FLOAT. I can’t wait to see it.  Jeremiah has a film that’s going to festivals too, called WHILE YOU WERE AWAY, that looks great, too.