Meet the Team
Helping you learn...
Our team of highly professional acting Instructors will do what it takes to bring out the best in you... you can put your full trust in them so you can enjoy the process of acting! Our actors are seeing results in 4-6 months in our programs. They are booking projects and moving towards their personal goals. What more of a result can we ask for than that! All of our students goals are not the same. We work with you in a group effort as well as individually to bring you closer to what results you are wanting to achieve!
We have courses for beginners to advance performing artists. Our coaches have years of experience in their field and most are currently working in their given industry. This helps to bring you the most current and up-to-date skill set and knowledge.
Learning how to act today — starts with our instructors coaching you in each step along the way. Our ultimate goal in mind is to allow you to grow in confidence and skill as an actor and in life.
Sue Rowe
Owner/Instructor
Sue Rowe has been acting for 30 years from Los Angeles to Boston. She grew up in Kaysville, Utah where she started her acting career on stage with the Children’s Theater department at Davis High School. When she graduated, she moved to Boston, MA., and fell in love with film acting. She has been involved in numerous film productions behind the camera and in front. In 2006 she began writing, producing and directing films. Her short film Blutiful, she produced and acted in, won “Best Film” at the Gloria Film Festival 2008. She is currently in pre-production for a web series, several short films and a feature film.Sue founded Utah Filmmakers, a non-profit networking group that introduces local producers, writers, directors, actors and crew members to one another, and helps interested individuals get involved in the Utah film industry. She also loves to volunteer her time teaching at the Homeless Youth Shelter in SLC.You can find her in local commercials, print, voice overs, and film productions: Disney’s Go Figure (2005) , Once Upon a Summer (2009), Elisabeth’s Gift (2010), One Good Man(2009), Last Eagle Scout (2010), Life Time Products,Union Wireless, Ken Garff, Wingers,Waterford Early Reading Program.
Jefferson Crow
Sword Play Instructor
Jefferson Crow has been studying and working as a martial artist for over 15 years. His focus has been on Historical Eastern Martial Arts or Medieval European Sword Play. He has studied a wide range of sword work including Viking Swords and shields, German Longsword, period Rapier and Sabre. He has developed a passion for film and television fight scenes. He has studied them at length as they often provide color and counterpoint to the stories being told. Its more than just wielding a sword and clanking them together. He found passion and purpose in each fight scene that added to the overall vision of the story. One of his favorite things to see in a fight scene is real documented techniques being used to effect. He claims that sometimes just the action of properly drawing a weapon can tell you volumes about a character. Jefferson can't wait to share his knowledge and love for fight scenes with other actors, directors and filmmakers so that he can help continue to train and bring authenticity to projects and realism to actors wanting to help carry on the legacy of days past.
ROBERT MILO ANDRUS
instructor
Robert started in the entertainment industry as an Actor over 15 years ago. He has since been a very successful producer with his films being picked up and sold by major production companies. He has recently took on the name of CASTING ASSOCIATE for the top casting company in Utah, Jeff Johnson’s Casting. His goal is to help train Utah Actors so when SAG or Independent films cast from UTAH, we have professional trained PROs ready to be CAST in these productions. He wants nothing more than for his students and Utah to succeed. Robert has loved film from his youth. He quotes ” Television and film ignited my imagination as a child. I loved the story telling and the vicarious escapism. I found myself wishing to be in those worlds, then I discovered I could be. I auditioned for church and school programs and discovered yet another love: audiences. Performing and creating have since driven my life’s passion as an actor, producer, screenwriter and casting associate. I have followed my dream and now want to help others to do the same.
Shawn Stafford
Weapon Tactics for Film, Television and Stage
SHAWN STAFFORD has worked for more than twenty years in the field of Federal Law Enforcement. He served as a Federal Police Officer for fifteen years and held the position of SWAT Team Operator and Training Instructor. He managed a quarterly firearms training program for more than 100 Police Officers and Special Agents and developed and implemented numerous training courses, including one of the nation’s first active shooter response tactics programs which has been provided to hundreds of Law Enforcement Officers throughout the United States. Prior to SHAWN’S Law Enforcement career, he spent many hours in the fields and mountains of the Appalachians, hunting and developing basic marksmanship skills before enjoying success as a competitive shooter throughout his college years. He continues to compete on a recreational level, provides gunsmithing services, and prefers Cowboy Action Shooting and repairing and shooting the guns of the Old West. Shawn has more recently entered the world of acting and film making through an association with Sue Rowe Studios and has appeared in various Short Films, Commercials and TV Pilots.
Sarah Kent
Teen and Improv Instructor
SARAH KENT hails herself as being a California native, an Utah local and Tokyo regular having grown up most of her life in all of the above. As an actor, her greatest love is performing comedy. She is in continous Meisner study with Iris Klein, and has studied with Anne Sward Hansen, Robert Andrus, Glenn Morshower, Stuart K. Robinson, the Groundlings in Hollywood, C&E Improv Factory and to name a few. A few of the projects she's had the fortunate opportunity to be apart of include Singing with Angels, The Cokeville Miracle, The Miracle Maker, Bookworm and The Beast, and appearing as Vice Principal Dullridge in the Disney Channel show Andi Mack. She worked as a producer and lead actor on such projects as Even In Dreams, Twice the Dream and the Amazon Prime web-series Amarog. When she's not living the dream on set for a film or television production, she keeps herself somewhat sane with Open Mic Stand Up Comedy, dancing bachata and making sushi.
ALYSSA NAMAZI
instructor
Alyssa is an actress filmmaker in the Utah industry with a backgroud in teaching. She is amazing with the children and helps them to build the skills they need. She is paitent and has the built a profesional toolbox of her own to pass on and to get great results all while havhing fun. She just graduated film school and has already completed a few of her own film projects and is in the process of writing and producing her next film.