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Edward Dennis Fogell - Artistic Director/Instructor
Received his training from such renowned institutions and acting
coaches as Ted Liss School of Drama/Chicago, Victory Gardens/Chicago,
CES/Los Angeles, Michael Shurtleff/New York, Geoffrey Conners and David
Perry, Royal Academy of Dramatic arts/London, to name a few. Some of
you out there in the industrial, audio/visual markets probably already
know Ed, or at least have seen his rugged exterior in many corporate,
training films & commercials for the Motorola Corps, Sears, RCA, National Safety Council
, and national spots for Kellogg & Miller's Lite Beer , to name few. Some television credits include the NBC soap opera "Generations," "Lady Blue", "Crime Stories", "Unsolved Mysteries". He recreated the historic 40s-50s mob figure "Willie Bioff" in "The Projection Racket" for the BBC. Feature film credits include "Time Was"; the Chicago International Film Festival, Silver Hugo Award & LA Telly Award winner "It Takes A Lot Of Light To Make A City"; the Chicago International Film Festival, Silver Award winning "Last Days In Chicago," the indi gem "Sitting On The Fence," Co-Starred in the action feature thriller, "Dead Air," plus countless stage productions to include "Lt Weinberg" in "A Few Good Men."
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Ed Directed numerous theatre productions, features & made-for-television films, including,"Paradise Lost, Paradise Found". "In The Air Tonight" and "Detective Story", produced, directed and performed in many musical variety shows through out the United States, which includes the "Arie Crown theatre", "The Park West" and "Civic Opera House" here in Chicago and on the international set, musical show revue in Hawaii, Japan, Korea
and the Republic of China. Helped co-found the "Screen Actors Academy" in La Jolla, CA. Ed frequently serves as a judge and Chairman of the judges in the "Miss Teenage Illinois", "Miss Illinois" and "Mrs. Illinois" beauty pageants.
Finally we would also like to mention that Mr. Fogell is on the board of directors at Complete Video & Film Productions as well as president of Worldwide Entertainment.
Ed possesses a refreshingly honest, no nonsense approach to the method,
coupled with an unequaled passionate affection for the actors he coaches and
commitment to helping them fulfill their dreams.
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