Sande Shurin Acting Studios

Sande Shurin Transformational Acting Studios
New York City, NY
Woodstock/Kingston Classes

Shurin/Levy Enterprises Inc.
Shurin/Levy Casting

Sande Shurin (917)545-5713
Bruce Levy (917)747-8757
email: studio@sandeshurin.com

Sande Shurin

Ms. Shurin authored the book TRANSFORMATIONAL ACTING… A Step Beyond which establishes her innovative acting technique Transformational Acting, the only booked technique that uses current emotions and does not rely on past emotions or sense memory of any kind producing a very natural style of acting. She has been heard yelling” Stop Acting” in her classes for the past 31 years. Her new book STAR POWER!…Defining Your Individual Signature guides the already good actor into greatness. She currently teaches her acting technique in New York City as well as at our satellite retreat in Woodstock, NY.

Sande Shurin and some of her work were seen on OPRAH. She appeared on AMERICA’S NEXT TOP MODEL as acting coach with co-star Taye Diggs. She was seen on several reality shows and was recently seen in the staged reading of HELL IS WHERE THE HEART IS and in the internet series SHELLY where she played the coffin sales lady.

Sande Shurin directed the Broadway play THE PRICE OF GENIUS as well as a number of off and off-off Broadway plays at such theaters as BAM, Lincoln Center, Playwrights Horizon, The Flea Theater, Carnegie Hall, LaMama and Theater For The New City etc. She also directed a local cable television show WORKING ACTORS and has directed the renowned musical group THE MANHATTAN RYTHM KINGS as their “on site director and acting coach in Italy. She directed the Mac award nominated cabaret show: YOU ME AND SAMMY D. At the very inception of off-off Broadway her theatre company, Drifting Traffic, was one of the five founding members of OOBA (the off off Broadway Theatre Alliance). Most recently she directed Anna Fishbeyn’s critically acclaimed SEX IN MOMMYVILLE at the Flea Theater as well as it’s on-tour locations. Her recent staged readings of Bruce Levy’s SADA and Gary Morgensteins’s A TOMATO CAN’T GROW IN THE BRONX both led or are leading to professional productions.

Sande has private coached, taught and directed many notable actors including Anthony Rapp, Matthew Modine, Sylvia Miles, Jai Rodriquez, William Sanderson, Daphne Rubin Vega, Michelle Hicks, Shalom Harlow, Jicky Schnee and Tony winners Casey Nicholaw (director Book Of Mormon) and Amy Spanger. to name a few. Her coaching has extended to the world of rap music having coached Method Man. She was acting coach to the award winning “indie” film, THE DEFINITION OF INSANITY.

Shurin directed the short films TRUE LOVE and MUSEUM SCANDALS written by her husband Bruce Levy which made the festival circuits.

Ms. Shurin lectures teaches and leads workshops internationally. Her most recent lecture/ panel discussion on acting was for Baruch College. She has developed the BREAK-THRU Workshop and STAR POWER! both powerful transformational events that supports organizational leaders as well as actors and business people of all kinds in personal and career breakthroughs.

Bruce Levy

Having recently retired his New York based Bruce Levy Talent Agency he presently has gone back to his roots in writing and acting. His play SADA has been published by Applause book as one of the best short American plays. He has written two short films MUSEUM SCANDALS & TRUE LOVE. Bruce currently can be seen in the indie award winning film THE DEFINITION OF INSANITY by Robert Margolis and in his own film MUSEUM SCANDALS. Most recently Levy starred in the play A TOMATO CAN’T GROW IN THE BRONX.

Bruce started his career in this industry as a set designer and production manager for Drifting Traffic Theatre Company. He also performed in many off and off-off Broadway plays and Indies at that time. He went on to a recurring role in the TV daytime drama THE GUIDING LIGHT. He switched gears at this point and became the Vice President of Sales for a fortune 500 sized privately held company. Simultaneously he produced, with Leslie Steinweiss. Betty Neustat’s THE PRICE OF GENIUS on Broadway with Sande Shurin directing. He also wrote several additional plays including POOL PLAYS and CAN YOU HEAR ME MAMA. Combining his business acumen with his experience in all aspects of the performing arts he opened his own talent agency.

His one act play A MOMENT IN TIME became a two act play SADA and was presented at a New York Theatre starring two-time academy award nominee Sylvia Miles and star of stage and television Jai Rodriquez . It later was performed at The Warehouse Theater in Greenville South Carolina to rave reviews.

He currently manages, with his wife, the Sande Shurin Acting Studios in New York which they created together in 1980. They also run a retreat for actors in Woodstock New York. They were both featured in a New York Times article focusing on their lives and careers.