INSTRUCTORS

All FITP instructors are active, highly sought-after union professionals recruited from the rosters of various locals of the International Alliance of Theatrical and Stage Employees (IATSE) and the Director's Guild of America (DGA). Here is a list of their impressive credits.

THOMAS C. ALLEN • 2008 Property Instructor • IATSE Local 52
Farlanders, Doubt, Revolutionary Road, The Bourne Ultimatum, Before The Devil Knows You're Dead, Guerrilla, Across the Universe, Failure to Launch, The Producers, Little Manhattan, The Stepford Wives, Angels in America, Far From Heaven, A Beautiful Mind, Riding in Cars With Boys, Down to Earth, Meet the Parents, The Talented Mr. Ripley

TARA ANDRUS • 2009 Production Accountant Guest Lecturer • IATSE Local 161
An Invisible Sign of My Own, The Extra Man, The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire, Birds of America, The Babysitters, Then She Found Me, The Killing Floor, Messengers, Speak, Garden State, In the Cut The Secret Lives of Dentists, "100 Centre Street" (10 episodes)

DOUGLAS H. ARMSTRONG • 2008/2009 Grip Instructor • IATSE Local 52
30 Rock (Season 3), Motherhood, Law and Order (Season 18), Wanted, Fighting, Law and Order: Special Victim's Unit (Season 9, Spin City, VH1 Storytellers, M.O.N.Y, Six Degrees, Mark Twain, Little Gloria, Happy at Last, Skokie, Bill, Kennedy, Terrible Joe Moran, Izzy & Moe

TAMARA BALLY • 2008 Production Accountant Guest Lecturer
Confessions of a Shopaholic, You Don't Mess With the Zohan, Little Game, No Reservations, The Departed, The Interpreter, Spiderman 2, Analyze That, A Beautiful Mind, Riding in Cars with Boys, Meet the Parents, You've Got Mail, Meet Joe Black, Picture Perfect, The Mirror Has Two Faces, To Wong Foo, The Cowboy Way, Six Degrees of Separation, Sleepless in Seattle

MICHAEL F. BARROW • 2008/2009 Lighting Instructor • IATSE Local 52
Maine Story, "Law & Order", Hindsight, Criminal Law , Spectropia, No Shoulder, Who's the Top?, Below the Belt, "Sex and the City", Sunday Caught "The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd", Flirting with Disaster, Naked in New York, Betsy's Weddin , Rocket Gibraltar, Dominick and Eugene, House of Games, Dirty Dancing, Alamo Bay

TYSON BIDNER • 2009 Location Management Instructor • Directors Guild of America
"White Collar", A Serious Man, Away We Go, Did You Hear About the Morgans?, "New Amsterdam", Love Hurts, Reclassified, Keep the Change Honor, "The Bronx Is Burning", Caught!, Combatants, Seven Commandments, Time for a Change?, Team in Turmoil, Music and Lyrics. Babylon Fields, "The Apprentice" (44 episodes), Taxi, Stuart Little 2

GARRETT BOEHLING • 2008/2009 Grip Instructor • IATSE Local 52
Hundreds of commercials, Nurse Jackie, Canterbury's Law, PS: I Love You, A Dog Year, The Namesame, Ed

JOHN BOLZ • 2008 Sound Instructor • IATSE Local 52
Bang the Drum Slowly, Dressed to Kill, First Born, First Deadly Sin, The Great Gatsby, Magic, Girls Are for Loving, Somebody Killed Her Husband, Raggedy Ann & Andy: a Musical Adventure, House of Dark Shadows, Desperate Characters, Cotton Club, All That Jazz, Pretty Poison, Up the Down Staircase, A Man Called Adam, The Landlord, The President's Analyst

MICHAEL BOONSTRA • 2008/2009 Production Coordination Instructor • IATSE Local 161
Sex And The City, Vandal, Nick And Norah's Infinite Playlist, You Don't Mess With The Zohan, CSI: NY, Conviction, The Family Stone, The Street, Elizabeth Street, Wonderland, Second Opinion, 8mm, U.S. Marshals, As Good As It Gets, Great Expectations, Central Park West, Across The Sea Of Time, Money Train

DON CERRONE • 2008 Grip Instructor • IATSE Local 52, IATSE Local 80
Winter Solstice, Swimfan, Delivering Milo, All the Pretty Horses, Forever Lulu, A Life Less Ordinary, Lolita, Bushwhacked, Nobody's Fool, Speechless, The Shawshank Redemption, Dangerous Game, School Ties, Cape Fear, The Man in the Moon, Jacknife, "Gideon Oliver", The Whales of August, 84 Charing Cross Road, "Kennedy", Little Gloria... Happy at Last

JOHN CICCIMARRO • 2008 Set Construction Instructor • IATSE Local 52
25/8, The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, Cadillac Records, Rachel Getting Married, Camp Hope, Margaret, See You in September, Two Lovers, College Road Trip, The Accidental Husband, The Life Before Her Eyes, The Nanny Diaries, We Own the Night, Staten Island, Fast Track, The Hoax, Prime, 100 Centre Street, Domestic Abuses, Joe Must Go, A Shot in the Dark

DANAJEAN CICERCHI • 2008/2009 Wardrobe Instructor/Guest Lecturer • IATSE Local 764
Woody Allen Summer Project, I Am Legend, Music And Lyrics, Super Ex Girlfriend, Fur, The Forgotten, The Naked Brothers Band, Law And Order, Knights Of Prosperity, Whoopi, Ed, The Sopranos, The Cosby Show, The Door In The Floor, Anger Management, I'm Not Rappaport, Quiz Show, Jacob's Ladder, The Godfather-Part III, Cookie, Fatal Attraction, Nights Hawks

STEPHEN CONSENTINO • 2008 Steadicam Guest Lecturer • IATSE Local 600
Old Dogs, When in Rome, Ghost Town, Baby Mama, Reservation Road, No Reservations, We Own the Night, "The Black Donnellys", Breach, Inside Man, Annapolis, Lord of War, Taxi, Birth, Kinsey, Mona Lisa Smile, Elf, Anything Else, Undefeated, Analyze That, "The Sopranos", The Guru, Kate & Leopold, Serendipity, Once in the Life, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Entrapment

CHRISTOPHER CRONYN • 2008 Production Management Instructor • Directors Guild of America
Waking Madison, Neverwas, The Notebook, The Slaughter Rule, Lost Souls, Meet The Deedles, Reach The Rock, Heat, Bad Boys, Striking Distance, Thunderheart, Mermaids, The Freshman, Stanley And Iris, The January Man, Fatal Attraction

ANGELO DIGIACOMO • 2008/2009 Camera Instructor • IATSE Local 600 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Amsterdam, College Road Trip, Baby Momma, Cloverfield, The Sopranos, John Adams, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Pride & Glory, Perfect Stranger, Devil Wears Prada, The Brotherhood, Freedomland, Syriana, Empire Falls, Angels In America, Havana Nights, Infamous, Analyze That, Black Sheep, Changing Lanes, City By The Sea

RICHARD DOBBS • 2008/2009 Visting Director • Directors Guild of America, IATSE Locals 600 & 52
The Cleaner, "Law & Order" (Director 30 episodes: Director of Photography 30 episodes; Camera Operator 60+ episodes), "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" (Director, 6 episodes), A Pigeon Flying, Related Incident, Extra Innings, "UC: Undercover", "Deadline", Seventh Avenue, Chinese Coffee, NY Undercover, Vanya on 42nd Street, Mortal Thoughts, Slaves of New York , Shakedown, New Jack City

JODI DOMANIC-RICCIO • 2008 Script Supervisor Guest Lecturer • IATSE Local 161
25/8, Tell-Tale, The Six Wives of Henry Lefay, Definitely, Maybe, Made For Each Other, Marker, The Skeptic, In Bloom, The Perfect Holiday, Anamorph, Devil You Know, My Brother, Game 6, Whisky School, Keane, A New Wave, Mind the Gap, Whirlygirl, Prologue, Dress Rehearsal

DAVID ELKINS • 2008/2009 Camera Instructor • IATSE Local 600
American Yakuza, Dark Justice, Earl the Poet, Tales From the Darkside, The Wonder Years, Star Trek, Gabriel's Fire, Dark Justice, Dream On, Red Shoe Dairies, Sunday Comics, Sledge Hammer, Jury Duty, Claire of the Moon, Prey of the Chameleon, Too Much Sun, the wizard, Penny, Red Surf, Phantom of the Opera, Angel Town, The Unholy, Waxwork

GEOFFREY ERB • 2008 Visiting Director of Photography • IATSE Local 600
"Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" (58 episodes), Table One, The Bone Collector, The Confession, Carriers, A Father for Brittany, The Deal, For My Daughter's Honor, "The Burning Zone", "Central Park West", New Eden, "The Cosby Mysteries", Roomates, Black Widow Murders, A Jury of One, Exclusive, In the Shadow of a Killer, Kojak: Ariana, "The Equalizer"

STUART FELDMAN • 2008 First Assistant Director Guest Lecturer • Directors Guild of America
Imagination Movers, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1 Season), 3 Lbs., Law & Order (13 Seasons), Carrie Me Home, Bull, How 2 Lose a Guy in 10 Days. Godzilla, NYPD Blue, Die Hard 3, Quiz Show, Guarding Tess, Searching for Bobby Fischer

RAY FISHER • 2009 Set Dressing Instructor – IATSE Local 52
Going the Distance, 13, "Mercy", Everybody's Fine, The International, "Damages", Rachel Getting Married, 27 Dresses, Reservation Road, Brooklyn Rules, I Think I Love My Wife, "Jonny Zero", Mona Lisa Smile, "Without a Trace", Pollock, Outside Providence, The Thomas Crown Affair, You've Got Mail, Amistad, Oleanna, RocketMan

MELISSA GELERNTER • 2008 Production Office Coordination Instructor • IATSE Local 161
Everybody's Fine, The Ministers, Blue Blood, "Cupid", My Fair Masseuse, Made of Honor, College Road Trip, Then She Found Me, "Traveler", I Think I Love My Wife, The Hoax, Just My Luck, On the One, Block Party, Hide and Seek, P.S.

BRUCE LEE GROSS • 2008 Set Dressing Instructor • IATSE Local 600
Deception, Baby Mama, What Happens in Vegas, Spider-Man 3, Perfect Stranger, Little Children, The Pink Panther, Bad Company, Welcome to New York, American Psycho
Flawless, One True Thing, The Impostors, In & Out, Donnie Brasco, The Juror, Let It Be Me, The Cowboy Way, Carlito's Way, Mr. Wonderful, The Saint of Fort Washington, Sliver

LOUIS GUERRA • 2009 Assistant Directing Instructor • Directors Guild of America
Morning Glory, Roadie, "Ugly Betty", Curveball, The Borne Identity, Sugar Daddy, There's No Place Like Mode, I Hate Valentine's Day, The Ministers, The Pink Panther 2, 100 Feet, College Road Trip, Cloverfield, Enchanted, The Band, Illegal Tender, "October Road," Rocky Balboa, "Law & Order", "Blind Justice", 200 Cigarettes, Gloria

CHAT GUNTER • 2008/2009 Sound Instructor • IATSE Local 600
After Hours, Stay The Night, I'm Dancing As Fast As I Can, Dead Or Alive, Private Sessions, Little Gloria, Happy At Last, Bix, The Emperor's Club, Law and Order: Special Victim's Unit, Oz, Whales Weep Not, Wasn't That a Time, Let's Get Lost, Hard Travelin'

DOUGLAS C. HART • 2008 Camera Instructor • IATSE Local 600
Brooklyn Rules, Landslide, Tony & Tina's Wedding, Judy Berlin, Central Park West, The Cosby Mysteries, The Nutcracker Suite, Presumed Innocent, Flood Zone, Frozen Impact, New Eden, The Black Widow Murders, A Jury Of One, Shadow Of A Killer, Bright Lights Big City, The Pickup Artist, The Money Pit, Hannah And Her Sisters, The Purple Rose Of Cairo, The

DAVID KAPPES • 2008/2009 Production Management Instructor/Guest Lercturer • Directors Guild of America
Children Of Dune, Anne Frank, The Whole Story, Dune: The Miniseries, The Night Flier, Kiss And Tell, The Vernon Johns Story, Bill, The Night They Saved Christmas, The Langoliers, Strictly Business, Tales From The Darkside: The Movie, In The Line Of Duty: The FBI Murders, Jaws 3-D, Too Far To Go, Terrible Joe Moran, Nairobi Affair, Parent Trap, Pigeon Feathers, Boxing Helena

LARRY LOEWINGER • 2008/2009 Sound Instructor • IATSE Local 52
The Unusuals, Nick And Norah's Infinite Playlist, 30 Rock, The Bourne Ultimatum, The Sopranos, Love Monkey, Third Watch, Code Blue, Winter Solstice, Analyze That, Pulse, A Stomp Odyssey, Ocean's Eleven, Law & Order: Special Victims, The Sopranos, The Street, Ed, Wasteland And New York Undercover, Third Watch, Addicted To Love, The Devil's

VIRGINIA SAENZ McCARTHY • 2009 Script Supervision Instructor • IATSE Local 161
The River Why, Irene in Time, Wonderful World, La mission, Lake City, The Zodiac, Little Children, The Oh in Ohio, The Californians, Dead & Breakfast, In the Bedroom, Behind the Seams, This Space Between Us, Paradise Cove, Heartwood, Little City, The Last Express, Fortune Tell, Nonnie & Alex

BARRY MINNERLY • 2009 Digital Imaging Technician Guest Lecturer • IATSE Local 600
Hachiko: A Dog's Story, "The Knights of Prosperity" (12 episodes), U2 3D, "Gossip Girl", "Independent Lens", Revolution: Five Visions, "Brotherhood" "Hope & Faith" (73 episodes), Learn to Dance Like a Princess, Our Town, "Queens Supreme", "100 Centre Street", Broadway Remembers, "New York: On the Edge", Imagine

CHRISTOPHER NOWAK • 2008/2009 Visiting Production Designer • IATSE Local 829
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead, Find Me Guilty, "The Bedford Diaries", Strip Search, "100 Centre Street", Mary and Rhoda, "Trinity", The X Files, The Real Blonde, "Prince Street", Bullet, The Basketball Diaries, My Father the Hero, Top of the World, N.Y.P.D. Mounted, Vampire's Kiss, The Incredible Ida Early, Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls

JOHN OATES • 2008 Lighting Instructor • IATSE Local 52
Nurse Jackie, M.O.N.Y., "Mad Men", Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, "The Sopranos" (56 Episodes), Made in America, The Blue Comet, The Second Coming, Walk Like a Man, Chasing It, "Six Degrees", Annapolis, Our Town, Spider-Man, "The Street", Meet Joe Black, Rounders, Cop Land, Hackers, The Jungle Book, My First Love, Split Decisions, Side by Side, Alamo Bay

SUSAN PARSONS • 2008/2009 Production Office Coordination Instructor •  IATSE Local 161
The Missing Person, Where God Left His Shoes, Satan's Little Helper, Camp Hope, When Will I Be Loved, Max and Grace, Anthology Series, Falling Up, Chatham, Perfect Christmas, The Babysitters, Captivity, Beer League, Undiscovered, Whirlygirl, The Warrior Class, State Property

ANTHONY PETTINE • 2009 Script Supervision Instructor • IATSE Local 161
Black Swan, My Soul to Take, Camp Hope, Howl, "Mercy"(3 episodes), "Kings" (4 episodes), The Wrestler, Two Lovers, "Canterbury's Law" (6 episodes) The Accidental Husband, Awake, Anamorph, Flakes, The Night Listener, The War Within, Block Party, Shadowboxer. Imaginary Heroes, The Secret Lives of Dentists, Roger Dodger

LAURI PITKUS • 2008 Location Management Instructor • Directors Guild of America
Nurse Jackie, Burn After Reading, Bourne Ultimatum, Click, Water, Home At The End Of The World, Fifteen Minutes, Flawless, Lulu On The Bridge, Storefront Hitchcock, Private Parts, Boys, The Cemetery Club, The Juror, Miracle On 34th Street, The Super, Queens Logic, State Of Grace, Ghost

SCOTT RAMSEY • 2008/2009 Lighting Instructor • IATSE Local 52
Sisterhood of The Traveling Pants, The Happening, The Accidental Husband, I Am Legend, Michael Clayton, Rescue Me, Baby Face, 30 Rock, The Window, The One That Got Away, The Manchurian Candidate, Signs, The Replacements, The Sixth Sense, Rounders,The Proprietor, Commandments, Lone Star, Flirting With Disaster, The Journey of August King

DAMIEN RESNICK • 2008 Location Management Instructor • Directors Guild of America
Five Dollars A Day, Gloria Sheppard, The Commuters, Pretty Bird, VIP Passport, In Her Shoes, Will, Reunion, Cloverfield, Sushi Prince, Six Bullets From Now, Hana Yori Dango, Last Love, Without A Trace

DANIELLE RIGBY • 2009 Assistant Directing Instructor • Directors Guild of America
Across the Universe, "The Bronx Is Burning", Past Combatants, Whirlygirl, Rent, Empire Falls, Guess Who, Melinda and Melinda, Anything Else, Riding in Cars with Boys, Sidewalks of New York, Any Given Sunday, Cradle Will Rock, The Horse Whisperer, Donnie Brasco, Sleepers, The Crow, Glengarry Glen Ross, The Prince of Tides

HILARY ROSENFELD • 2008 Visiting Costume Designer • IATSE Local 829
You, Human Error, Panda: The China Adventure, Caught, Ride For Your Life, The Cemetery Club, Traces Of Red, Triumph Of The Spirit, Dominick And Eugene, Dirty Dancing, No Mercy, At Close Range, Flight Of The Spruce Goose, The Ballad Of Gregorio Cortez, One-Trick Pony

LUCILLE MASONE SMITH • 2008 Production Management Instructor • Directors Guild of America
Pieces of April, Rear Window, The Good Night, Find Me Guilty, The Perfect Man. Page Six, CopShop, Will & Grace, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Deadline, 15 Minutes, Mysteries of 71st Street, Falcone, Boss of Bosses, Return to Paradise, Conspiracy Theory, The Devil's Own

JAMIE SILVERSTEIN • 2009 Steadicam Operator Guest Lecturer • IATSE Local 600
Every Day, "White Collar”, "Royal Pains", "The Naked Brothers Band", (7 episodes), Empire State, Awake, "Rescue Me", (4 episodes), Voicemail, "Law & Order: Criminal Intent", "Spin City" (16 episodes), The Peacemaker, City Hall, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, "Northern Exposure" (3 episodes), Angel Heart

DANIEL STROL • 2009 Location Management Instructor • Directors Guild of America
Henry's Crime, Can Openers, "Damages" (25 episodes), Before the Devil Knows You're Dead, Take the Lead, The Prince, "100 Centre Street" (18 episodes), Pollock, 200 Cigarettes, Jungle 2 Jungle, The Indian in the Cupboard, Nobody's Fool, My Father the Hero, Searching for Bobby Fischer, Green Card

JONATHAN TESSLER • 2009 Property Instructor • IATSE Local 52
"Rescue Me" (93 episodes)
, "Canterbury's Law" (6 episodes, Stop-Loss, I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry, Broken Flowers, Maid in Manhattan, "The Job" (4 episodes), The Royal Tenenbaums, The Ice Storm, The Temp, Hundreds of Commercials

THOMAS J. WHELAN • 2008 Location Management Instructor • Directors Guild of America
Adventureland, Gigantic, American Saint, Billy Galvin, Rachel Getting Married, Made Of Honor, Reservation Road, The Nanny Diaries, The Black Donnellys, Freedomland, Sex & The City, The Demarco Affairs, The Royal Tenenbaums, Heist, The Caveman's Valentine, Bait, Man On The Moon, Ed, Thicker Than Blood, Happiness, Trees Lounge, I Shot Andy Warhol, Kids