BRAD MILNE

DAMIAN LEE

Script Writing Instructor

Since 1982 Lee has written, directed and produced over sixty features, some of which have spawned profitable and entertaining sequels such as the perennial teen favorite Ski School. He cast stars in their first feature film roles. Notable credits include Woman Wanted starring Kiefer Sutherland and Holly Hunter, Fun, which won two Special Jury Awards at Sundance and was nominated for two Independent Spirit Awards and King of Sorrow, a provocative exploration of forgiveness and damnation, which premiered at the World Film Festival in Montreal and won Best Actor and Best Actress at the AOF Pasadena Film Festival. The Poet, released as Hearts of War, a love story set in Poland in 1939 between a German Officer and the daughter of rabbi. The film won Best Director at the Staten Island New York Film Festival and won Best Cinematography at the Boston International Film Festival.
Then he developed and wrote Sacrifice. Lee directed Academy Award winner Cuba Gooding Jr. in the film along with Christian Slater, Kim Coates and Devon Bostick. During the same time period he did the indie comedy Hit It. He wrote and directed A Dark Truth for SONY, starring Academy Award Nominee Andy Garcia, Academy Award Winner Forest Whitaker, Eva Longoria, Kim Coates, Devon Bostick and Debroah Kara Unger, Break Out starring Brendan Fraser, Dominic Purcell, star of the hit series Prison Break, and Ethan Suplee for SONY; A Fighting Man for SONY. The film stars James Caan, Dominic Purcell, Kim Coates, Famke Janssen, Lou Gossett Jr., Adam Beach. He recently co-wrote and directed the successful family film Ice Girls and served as Production Consultant on the TV Series When Calls the Heart. Lee is currently developing the period dramatic/action series, set in 1710, Four Kings, which has received considerable financial help from Telefilm; Get Sideways, the youth oriented dramatic/action series shooting in L.A. and Toronto; and he’s scheduled to shoot Pray for Me, a theosophical horror film the fall of 2019. He is also currently developing the feature film Terezin which deals with the concentration camp choir that performed Verdi’s Requiem opera for the Nazi high command on June 23, 1944.

RAECHEL FISHER

Teen Acting Instructor

Raechel has been a passionate actor and arts educator for over ten years. She began acting at a young age which eventually progressed to her earning a BFA in the York University Acting Conservatory program. After graduation, she launched into her first professional performance in Canadian Stage’s Shakespeare in High Park in their productions of Hamlet (directed by Birgit Schreyer Duarte) and All’s Well That End’s Well (directed by Ted Witzel). Since then, she has done several short films, Fringe productions (Montreal, London, Toronto), musicals and commercials. Most recently, Raechel had just finished a production of Oh What A Lovely War at Hart House Theatre and was just about to begin rehearsals on her first opera with Mightier Productions. Alongside her acting work, Raechel feeds her love for arts education by directing, writing and choreographing a variety of children’s theatre in the GTA for a variety of ages. She also extends her passion to chaperoning young actors’ onset and in theatre. Raechel looks forward to getting back to work and adjusting to the new challenges coming our way! She hopes that through her classes, she can provide a space where young actors can find their strength and engage with their sense of play—even if that means falling on their faces a few times! She feels so excited and lucky to be able to join such an incredibly driven group of actors at Milne’s Studio.