NYFA Ensemble
The NYFA Ensemble is the New York Film Academy's resident theatre company dedicated to the production of short plays featuring our top-achieving conservatory students. Ensemble performances take place at the Players Club in Gramercy Park, New York's world-famous theatrical institution founded by Edwin Booth and Mark Twain in the 1800's with current members such as Tommy Lee Jones, Ethan Hawke, Angela Lansbury and many other legends of the stage and screen. The Ensemble's mission is to celebrate the short-form play and showcase the acting work of our most promising students.

Ensemble members

September'10
Marcela Carrasco
John-Paul Santucci
Phaedra Lewis
Alexander Farrell
Dustin Bamberg
Jessica Doherty
Ana Paiva
Shane Mitchell
Kaitlan Emery
Caitlin Cooke
Hayley Simmonds
Jaspal Binning
David Mulhern
Ryan Wijayaratne
Daniel Staglianò
Taliia Herrera-Clark
April'10
Erica Diaz Isabella Georgiou Lacey Keane Gutekunst Oliver Marriott Maurice Wright Bill Manahan
January '10
David Briceno Cavallin
Danielle Carvajal
Christopher D'Silva
Petra Petan
Joy Rovaris
Jenny Satinover
Johnny Giroux
Stephanie Lee
Talitha Querido
Minna Salmi
Charles Roetting
Danaé Van Vyve
Jake Axelbank
Clio Davies
Leonard Kocan
Roland Lane
Ben Mann
Saffron Wayman
Alessa Aichinger
Kimberly Alu
Ashley Andrews
Cameron Berner
Samuel Cohen
Matthew DePoutot
Michael Ferman
Katherine Highman
Ariel Jackson
Dominique La Veau
Javier Leñero
Jason Liles
Ross Nathan
Mikaela Pålsson
July'09
Abdou Maba Ba
Juliana Bitar
William Burras Coffing
Morgan Fernie
Melissa Golebiowski
Chantal Grosvenor
Ashley Gulum
Stephanie Mathews
Mervyn Morris
Sergei Nazarenko
Camillo Nespolo
Lydia Poole
Veronica Ferias Cebrian 
Michaella Chadiarkos 
Kazimieras Tauginas
March'09
Pernilla Anderson
Sofia Rebelo
Kourtney Coleman
Eliza Delacourt
Evan Jones
Abigail Mason
Sam McLaughin
Matthew Murphy
Karl Nesseler
Marie Ropartz
Fred Salmon
Mark Smith
Ashley Trawinski
Lisa Vacca
Lauren Zehner
Sept'08
Gaya Halavian
Jimmy York
Santiago Velazquez Jr.
Sarah Hodgetts
Victoria Vededeeva
Heily Chang
Miguel Galarza
Maya Demri
Julian Anthony Ramirez-Estevez Giovinco
Sarah Schaefer
July'08
Alison Broome
Amy DePaola
Rae Haskins
Cery Kinselle
Elisabeth Leitner
Dirk Otis
March'08
Sandro Asaad
Michael Astolfi
David DeSantis
Alexander DiDio
Joey O' Donnell
Robyn Freeman
Megan Navarro
Ines Lucas
Geraldine Lumpp
Denise Pillot
Emilia Rosca
Eeva Semerdjiev
Jonathan Varilla
Jay Wood


Faculty Directors
Anna Maria Cianciulli     Bela Grushka     Glenn Kalison     Robin Irwin
Nick Landry     James Price     Damon Shalit     Victor Verhaeghe