Eugene Buica

Eugene Buica

Birth Name: Eugene Peter Buica
After graduating from both the University of Pennsylvania and The Neighborhood Playhouse in New York, where he studied with the legendary Sanford Meisner, Mr. Buica went on to work at length with Michael Chekhov's associate George Shdanoff, Uta Hagen and master teacher Michael Howard. Mr. Buica has been coaching and teaching actors since 1991,... Show more »
After graduating from both the University of Pennsylvania and The Neighborhood Playhouse in New York, where he studied with the legendary Sanford Meisner, Mr. Buica went on to work at length with Michael Chekhov's associate George Shdanoff, Uta Hagen and master teacher Michael Howard. Mr. Buica has been coaching and teaching actors since 1991, leading workshops in the Grotowski, Michael Chekhov and Meisner approaches in Malibu, Los Angeles, Bucharest, Beijing, Munich, and New York. As Artistic Director and Founder of The Acting Corps, Mr. Buica originated and implemented unique training processes reflected in the Actors' Boot Camp and all the other programs at The Acting Corps. The Acting Corps has, as of 2012, trained 4000 actors with 1400 of them acquiring film and TV credits now appearing with their own IMDB pages after attending The Actors' Boot Camp. Guest Speakers at The Acting Corps On Acting series have included, Academy Award winning filmmaker and actor Sydney Pollack, Peter Facinelli, Ethan Embry and Rainn Wilson, who also taught acting at The Acting Corps' Actor's Boot Camp. As a result of The Acting Corps's growing prominence, Mr. Buica, alongside Whoopi Goldberg and Dennis Franz, was asked to judge TNT's Dramatic Auditions National Competition. TNT then selected The Acting Corps to train the winner of its National Competition. Studios. Mr. Buica has also written and directed for the theater. Most notably Parachute, a play in which he also starred, won accolades from the Los Angeles Times for its debut production at Hollywood's Theater East. Over the course of his career, Mr. Buica has appeared in films, television shows, film commercials and also extensively on reality TV shows as an acting guru. Mr. Buica has acted in over 50 Stage productions. Starring roles include The Sound of Music on Broadway, Coriolanus at Princeton's McCarter Theater, as well as a starring role in his own adaptation of The Swan at Lincoln Center. Mr. Buica recently launched the grand opening of The Acting Corps in house stage, The Americano Theater with an inaugural production of David Mamet's Speed The Plow directed by Acting Corps faculty member, Sydney Walsh and featuring faculty colleagues Corey Sorenson and Sage Howard. along with Mr. Buica. His book, 90 Days of Rants, Observations, and Meditations for The Actor is due to appear in November of 2012. Show less «
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