Gary Spatz was born in New York and raised in New York and Miami then moved to Washington, DC to attend American University before making the move to Los Angeles.In LA, Spatz continued his study of acting with Paul Sills. He was a company member (1978- 1985) of the respected American Theater Arts in Hollywood where he continued training, performing and eventually teaching. For the fifteen years after that, he was a teacher at The Young Actors Space.For seven seasons, Spatz served as the on-set acting coach for "Roseanne". He went on to work with Jonathan Lipnicki on "The Jeff Foxworthy Show", with Tia & Tamara Mowry on "Sister, Sister" and later, with Tia and Tamara's younger brother, Tahj, when he got the starring role on the WB series "The Smart Guy". Gary Spatz was also the acting coach for several Disney Productions including the feature film "Honey, I Shrunk The Kids" as well as The Disney Channel's "Mickey Mouse Club", on which he also served as the creative consultant.After completing work as the acting coach for the children on the Emmy award winning CBS sitcom "Everybody Loves Raymond" Gary coached Dylan and Cole Sprouse for The Disney Channel series "The Suite Life of Zack and Cody." He also regularly coaches actors for auditions and callbacks for feature films, theatre and episodic television. Gary created the young actors' conservatory,The Playground, in Century City, CA in 2005. He teaches classes as well as serving as director of the conservatory program.His former students have gone on to star in countless television and film projects. Show less «