Our Students
Mark Bowen
Mark was born in Raleigh, North Carolina. After escaping Indiana University with degrees in Literature and Acting, Mark came to Europe to get cultured. It’s probable he will never leave. Studying Meisner technique at the Prague Playhouse has renewed his love for acting, which he shows off daily for The Bear Theatre and in Prague film projects. He also writes plays and short films for his fellow Playhouse actors, and has a novel clamoring to be finished. A career as a writer or an actor is a certainty, simply because Mark can’t do anything else. He loves baseball, cycling, and learning languages.
John-Paul “JP” Franke
JP was born into an American/German missionary family in Ciang Mai Thailand in 1987. Throughout his missionary life he has lived in seven different countries in Asia, Europe, and Africa and has visited over twenty countries in four continents. In the winter of 2006, after his travels in Africa with a traveling missionary group, he returned to his family in the Czech Republic. Shortly thereafter a friend introduced him to the Prague Playhouse where he got his first in-depth look into the world of acting. He has since been a full-time student of the Sanford Meisner acting method and looks forward to making acting a career.
Jim High
Jim grew up on the Isle of Wight in the UK and frankly, that’s just something you’ll have to deal with. He performed in productions of Chekov and Shaw in University before discovering a uncanny knack for delivering Stand Up comedy. After a stint on the circuit in London he roamed wildly around Europe and Africa before arriving in Prague and discovering the Meisner technique. He’s done several playreadings around Prague and performed in numerous short films as everything from a painter with a crisis of conscience to a street con-artist. He’s made several short films and he’s making more…
Jana Kotková
Jana was born and raised in Prague. She acted in amateur theatre throughout grade school. Jana is going to graduate from high school this year and hopes to pass her entrance exams to the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. Nowadays she writes short stories and has had some of them published in Czech magazines. She is studying Meisner Technique in Prague and in January she will start singing and modern dance classes.
Paul Madden
Paul was born in Coventry, where he grew up around his fathers bar. His first move was to the west of Ireland University for ten years where he studied the Geo-Politics of Sub Saharan Africa, then he traveled to South East India and Istanbul where he taught English and Geography. The stage was always yearning and he realised it here in Prague while studying the Mesiner technique. Paul has appeared in numerous plays, several short films, and a feature shot in L.A.
Boris Wilke was born in Hamburg, Germany. And somehow the great port city’s atmosphere must have influenced his wayward urges. He spent six years and counting in the US, France and the Czech Republic, which left him speaking four and a half languages. A trained elementary school teacher, he decided in 2008 after 13 years of teaching torture to dedicate himself 100% to writing and acting. Since then he has appeared in several student films, written a partly autobiographical novel in German and a 45-minute-play in English. Lately he has made it into two TV-commercials. “The Meisner technique is like life in a nutshell – with all its variety. I love it!”, he says. He’s also the author of the Meisner blog on this website.
These photos were made possible by Vivid Casting Studio. We thank them for their support!
6 Comments Add your own
1. Vitaly Rabochev | January 30th, 2008 at 23:18
My comment is to PETER MAIVALD or anyone else who can help.
Im looking for my old friend Gunnar Hauth. I know he studied at the film school in Prague, I actually visited it summer 2006, but Gunnar has already moved away from Prague to an unknown destination.
I lost contact with him, and moved myself as well, so could anyone help me finding him? Please!
-Vitaly, Finland
2. After Making Her Film Deb&hellip | February 16th, 2008 at 22:22
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3. J. Bernal | June 21st, 2008 at 22:31
Great to see John Poston is doing so well. Can’t wait to see him in Wanted.
JB
4. Trevor | August 22nd, 2008 at 19:56
I had the pleasure of seeing Vendula Manifredi operating at a very high professional level in several countries while doing videography work in Asia.
She was a standout even amongst many other highly competitive and intelligent girls.
It is nice to see such an extraordinarily talented person working with such a fine cast of people.
Hats off to the entire crew.
5. Gunnar T. | September 27th, 2008 at 16:38
I also know Gunnar Hauth. You can reach him through his myspace site:
http://www.myspace.com/gunnarhauth
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