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Directors Workshop

howiedeutchThe new BHP Directors Workshop launched in March of 2009. Taught by Howie Deutch, the acclaimed film director and long-time Beverly Hills Playhouse acting class student, the class will focus on a few key points during each 10-week program.

  • How to communicate with your actors

  • How to capture the life and spirit of a scene

  • What is the scene about and how to relate it to the story

  • How a director prepares

  • How to make the best use of rehearsals

  • How to get an actor to trust his or her performance

 

Howie Deutch

Director Howard Deutch has brought his humanistic touch to a number of successful films since making an auspicious feature debut in 1986 with Pretty in Pink, starring Molly Ringwald, Andrew McCarthy and Jon Cryer. Produced by John Hughes, the film was an instant hit and is considered to be definitive of the era's youth genre movies.

The following year, Deutch directed the popular Some Kind of Wonderful, starring Eric Stoltz, Mary Stuart Masterson and Lea Thompson. The Great Outdoors, written by Hughes and teaming Dan Akroyd and John Candy, followed in a purely comic vein.

Deutch went on to direct the black comedy, Article 99, with the remarkable ensemble including Ray Liotta, Kiefer Sutherland, Forest Whitaker and Lea Thompson.

Getting Even With Dad, starring Ted Danson and Macauley Culkin, returned Deutch to lighter comic territory in 1992. He scored a major success in 1995 with Grumpier Old Men, and its epic teaming of Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau.

Deutch followed with The Replacements, starring Keanu Reeves and Gene Hackman and then The Whole Ten Yards, starring Bruce Willis, Matthew Perry, and Kevin Pollak.

Most recently, Deutch directed the dark comedy, My Best Friend's Girl, starring Kate Hudson, Dane Cook, Alec Baldwin, and Jason Biggs.

Deutch's television credits include The CBS movie Gleason, starring Emmy-winning actor Brad Garrett. Other credits include the HBO series Tales From the Crypt, the pilot episode of the hit television series, Melrose Place, as well as Caroline in the City. Most recently, Deutch directed the pilot of Stevie Sanchez for Disney.