VALENTINE MAYER
Acting/Vocal Faculty

Valentine arrived in New York City after completing a Master of Arts degree at the University of Pittsburgh and a two-year residency at The Pittsburgh Playhouse and Point Park College.

Mayer acted in and/or stage managed 12 Broadway plays and musicals in the ten years he lived in New York; working with Zero Mostel, Rachel Roberts, Richard Kiley, Jane Alexander, Jack Weston, Jerry Stiller, Rita Moreno, Herschel Bernardi, Nancy Dussault, Larry Kert, Georgia Brown, Hermione Gingold, Dorothy Loudon and Katharine Hepburn, while working for Harold Prince, Robert Whitehead, Rogers Stevens and Jerome Robbins, to name but a few.

Since New York, Mayer has made his home in Los Angeles, and has directed multi-camera comedies for all of the networks, including The Facts of Life, Too Close For Comfort, My Two Dads, Everything’s Relative, Sweet Surrender, The Thorns, USA High, as well as directing for cable and first-run syndication. Recently, he has taught “Acting for the Camera” for the UCLA Extension, Theatre History for Pepperdine University, and continues to coach actors privately for theatre, film and television. The The Commonwealth Theatre Company in Norfolk, VA presented his production of The Belle of Amherst, starring Sandy Duncan, in May 2004. In 2006, he will mount Bernard Slade’s new comedy, Moving.