Who We Are
Steve Yeager
Exec. Production Director
steve@youngfilmmakersworkshop.org
Steve won the Best Documentary award at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival for Divine Trash, his film on Baltimore icon John Waters. The following year he produced a sequel, In Bad Taste, which airs regularly on the Bravo Channel. In 2001 he helped Divine's mom write the biography of her son, My Son Divine. Steve teaches in the theatre and film departments at Towson University. This past summer he wrote and directed the feature film Crystal Fog which is currently being edited in LA. He is at work on a documentary on another native Baltimorean, the late actor, Howard Rollins, the only African American Marylander ever nominated for an Academy Award (Ragtime).
Read Steve’s review of his most recent show at Vagabonds Theater
Steve Yeager on Imdb.com:
Steve Yeager on Wikipedia:
Steve Yeager’s website:
Lane Keller (formerly Elaine Beardsley),
Exec. Director
lane@youngfilmmakersworkshop.org
Published author, editor, playwright, former New York talent agent. Theater director, and drama instructor, recipient of the state grant for playwriting. Founder/Director of Il Villagio Players in New York. Alumnus of NYU & the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute in NYC. Lane lives in new York City, and is represented by Jack Skovil, of Scovil, Chichak, Galen, also in New York.
Reviews of Lane’s play, “Poppies,” seen at the New York International Fringe Festival this summer Backstage
NYTheatre.com
Curtain Up
Lane Keller’s website:
Working in Commercials, An Actor’s Guide,
Diana Ramirez,
Workshop Director
diana@youngfilmmakersworkshop.org
A graduate of MICA’s Master of Arts in Digital Arts program, Diana was a Communications graduate student at GVSU in Allendale, Michigan, where she also received her undergraduate degrees for Photography, Advertising & Public Relations, and Liberal Arts. Her portfolio includes special events, film production stills and gallery art, and she has worked with NCIS actor, Pauley Perrette, film and TV actor, Peter Scolari, film actor, James Karen; Hollywood Producer Alba Francesca; Miami film director, Marc Ruiz, and national bands, Yellowcard, Lucky Boys Confusion, and Plain
White T's.
Diana’s film work
Diana Ramirez’ website
Richard Pilcher,
Acting Director
richard@youngfilmmakersworkshop.org
Richard Pilcher has acted and directed professionally for almost forty years. Since 1981 he has been the principle acting teacher at the Baltimore School for the Arts, and has been a guest instructor at Towson University. He has been featured in such films as Tuck Everlasting, The Replacements, and Serial Mom. Television appearances include The Wire and a recurring role as Sgt. Deutch on Homicide: Life in the Streets. He has acted in a number of shows produced by Maryland Public Television, and has narrated such nationally syndicated series as Minidragons and The Blue Helmets for PBS. On stage, Mr. Pilcher has appeared on Broadway, off-Broadway and with many of the nation’s leading resident repertory companies. Local audiences have seen his performances at the Olney Theatre, the Potomac Theatre Project, the Studio Theatre, the Shakespeare Theatre, the Washington Stage Guild, the Everyman Theatre, the Baltimore Shakespeare Festival and many others.
Richard Pilcher on IMDB.com
Sherri Eden Barber,
Acting Instructor
sherri@youngfilmmakersworkshop.org
Sherri is an MFA Directing Candidate (09') at The New School for Drama. She is a company member of At Play Productions and directed the world premiere of Jason Grote's play Hylan Park for The 24 Hour Plays Celebrity Charity event for Working Playground, Superego Inc. Presents: At Play Productions in Association with The 24 Hour Company at the Atlantic Theatre. She was selected to direct for The 24 Hour Company's Old Vic/New Voices workshop with Kevin Spacey. Sherri directed Poppies for the New York Fringe Festival '07 and Susan Lori Parks' 365 Days/365 Plays at the Public Theatre. Favorite directing productions at NSD include Adam Rapp's Red Light Winter at 59 E 59, an adaptation of Naomi Iizuka's Polaroid Stories and Matthew Pelfrey's Drive Angry. Sherri also had the privilege of assistant directing Christian Parker at The 24 Hour Plays on Broadway and Moises Kaufman for The 24 Hour Musicals both in association with The 24 Hour Company. She also directed Mike Lew'sTilly and Bill for Wizard Oil Productions. Upcoming productions include directing Harrison River's world premiere of Baptism at the Atlantic Theatre for At Play Productions in May and Seven 11. Convenience Theater with Desipina & Co. this June.
Josef Richardson,
Graphic Design Instructor
josef@youngfilmmakersworkshop.org
Compositing editing and special effects creator at George Lucas’s company LucasArts in San Rafael, California, executed 3D special effects and lighting for the film SPY KIDS 3: GAME OVER
Why The Young Filmmakers Workshop is Unique
The course instructors are working professionals.
(We believe that those familiar with the real-life demands of this world are better equipped to teach it).
We construct a fun work/ learning environment as close to real-life as possible.
(To outfit young people for creative endeavors and careers).
We instill in our students a belief in themselves and in their ideas, giving value to their contributions as we guide in a way which encourages growth, and joy in the creative process.
(Many courses of instruction are based on a stifling process: stifling instinct, talent, uniqueness. Ours isn’t.)
We strike a balance between nurturing of creativity and the delivery of a polished, end product.
(To do this we insist on the highest standards.)
Our pledge is to go as far as our students will. Not surprisingly, few fail to meet the challenge.
Comments
"I can honestly say that I learned more here on the first day than did at the --- (film) Camp in three weeks. "
"My daughter insists we treat her as a professional now!"
"My child keeps reminding me, 'It's not a camp, it's a workshop..."
"I am thinking about starting a video club at my school I am so motivated now."
"This was truly the best camp I have ever been to."
"You're thrown into a world of terms and angles yet you feel like you've been there already."
"I learned more about filmmaking in one day than I did in a whole 'nother camp."
"She (my daughter) has learned so much and has a confidence level she did not have before."
"One-of-a-kind."
"My son is more relaxed and confident."
"You have enormously improved (my daughter's) acting skills."
"Just hearing the excitement in my daughter's voice everyday when I pick her up makes it all worthwhile."
"(My son) now sees filmmaking as a craft. Sees the big picture with all the components."
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