American Conservatory Theater

According to her colleagues, she was the kind of stage actress who earned respect from directors who didn't hand it out lightly.

She spent two years as a leading member of the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, where the daily grind gave her a range few television actresses of her generation could match.

In nineteen sixty-eight, she married Robert Levitt Jr., the son of Broadway legend Ethel Merman.

That marriage was rocky, and by the summer of nineteen seventy-five, she and Levitt were separated, and by all accounts, they were both happy to move on with life apart from each other.

As WXXI's Noelle Evans reports, that role will be vacated at the end of December.

Elizabeth Williamson said she's leaving her role at Jiva to join San Francisco's American Conservatory Theater.

In a statement, she said she is proud of the beautiful work created at Jiva in the four-plus seasons she's been there.

Jiva's board of trustees announced it is launching a plan for a transition and beginning a search process to identify a new artistic partner.

He took a chance on enrolling in a two-year Meisner acting program after seeing a flyer for open auditions.

Upon completion of that program, his instructor advised him to audition for the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, where he was accepted.

He eventually moved to LA after graduating from Studio ACT.

He's been in the films Father's Day, The Cross, GB2525, Mockingbird Lane, Force of Execution, and Bullet.

That was how I... 'Cause I did, I minored in costume design in college.

And I did my, um, internship at American Conservatory Theater in the Bay Area.

Did you, though?

And I sewed for-

He later had recurring roles on Arrow and appeared alongside RuPaul in the Netflix film AJ and the Queen.

He's also graced the stage performing with the American Conservatory Theater in productions including The Taming of the Shrew and Cyrano de Bergerac.

And he's still going strong.

His most recent credits include the comedy Team of Two, and the action film Agent Recon.

Like, you know, the Bergerac, you did that for PBS.

And I was like, oh, wow.

As well as Taming of the Shrew, which was American Conservatory Theater.

I'm going to get to the point.

I went to the Marin Theater Company.

I went to the American Conservatory Theater.

Oh, good.

I also, though, was pulled out of high school by my parents, so I don't have an actual full-blown formal education.

In fact, that's how Dick and Andrew and I met.

Dick was the dean at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, and Andrew and I were earning our MFA.

So we each... lived that life fully and happily for a time.

And we each had our own inciting incident that had us cross over.

I've got another Momentum Shifting fabulous guest joining me and her name is Miss Amy Wizzorek.

That's right, ladies and gentlemen, I got the whiz hanging with me today.

And she is trained as an actor with, she has an MFA, Masters in Fine Arts from the American Conservatory Theater.

She has appeared on television shows like Enterprise, Six Feet Under, and NCIS Los Angeles.

From truly the very beginning, in diapers even.

And you grew up in Massachusetts and trained at the University of Wisconsin and then earned your MFA at American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco.

What did training and all of those early experiences teach you about the craft and about yourself?

Well, I would say the best way to learn how to be an actor is by doing.

This is a life's calling.

And that was so meaningful to me.

And also, the American Conservatory Theater was so named because it's a beautiful 1,200-seat theater.

And at the time that I was there, across the street was a beautiful five-story building where the ensemble, the acting company, taught us classes.

Ash Rocha is playing construction worker number one.

He got his BA in economics at Columbia University and his MFA from the ACT Conservatory.

He's in multiple episodes of The Practice and Fringe.

He's in One Try by Jury and one episode of the original series.