"We can always count on his actors
making interesting choices."
-- Lisa Fields, Casting Director

Meet John Sudol

For the past thirty years John Sudol has worked successfully as an actor, writer, artistic director, story editor, independent casting director, acting teacher and private coach. John started his acting career in 1975 after arriving in California from the east coast. During the next seven years John studied, worked the LA Theater scene and had recurring roles on both Ryan's Hope and Capitol. In the late 70's, John started his own theater company (The 3000 Miles Off Broadway Theater Company). At that point, John's career began to shift from actor to director.

In 1982 John moved to Seattle, Washington where he founded the 65th Street Theater, "a theater of passion". This move would take up the next eight years of his life. The 65th Street Theater produced American classics as well as two original pieces a season. John won Best Director for both "Waiting for Lefty" and "Of Mice and Men" and several other awards for best production. During this time, John also founded the Performing Actor's Workshop. There he trained hundreds of actors, both in Seattle and Portland - several of whom have since gone on to successful careers in New York as well as Los Angeles. By the late 80's John formed a partnership with Fern Orenstein (former Casting Director for Baywatch) and created Casting Northwest. Together they cast commercials, voice-overs, industrials and a Northwest talent search for ABC.

By 1990 John had returned to LA. He opened a studio in Hollywood and continued to teach, act, write and direct. Besides doing theater John made several guest appearances on Alien Nation, the New Dragnet, Adam 12, Guiding Light, MOW - The Great Los Angeles Earthquake and a few never to be seen pilots and independent films.  He also wrote and directed "Love me Tender" and "Mad Dogs Howling at the Moon", which were produced at the Complex in Hollywood.

In the mid 90's John's career took an unexpected turn. He lost both his father and brother. John's belief had always been that the foundation of art is communication and sharing. This profound experience had left John unable to do either. For the next 6 years John went from working in commercial casting, where he cast talent for Kellogg's, Budweiser, Nike, BMW, Sony PlayStation, Disney, Dockers, California Healthcare,  to name a few, to developing new scripts for Solomon International Films. Neither of which touched his soul nor inspired him to share. It wasn't until several years later that an old student and friend turned manager convinced John to work with some of his clients that the passion was renewed.

In the middle of 2001, John re-opened the John Sudol Studio and began training actors both commercially and theatrically. In Back Stage West's September 19, 2002 article "Choice Training" John was picked as one of the top acting coaches to study with. 

Check out John's IMDb credits here.

Also, talk a look at the Student News to see some of John's recent student credits.

Here are what others are saying about John Sudol:
"...Amazingly professional ...he does his students a great service!" -Dena Ziegler, Nu Talent

"...His teaching technique is right on the money ...His tapes are a great resource for finding new talent."
-Emily Hope, Acme Talent

"...We viewed, signed some actors and look forward to his next tape!" -Patty Grana-Miller, President, Bobby Ball Talent Agency