Who's Jen?

Jennifer McCabe has been acting, teaching and directing for 34 years. Having performed over 80 roles, originating ten lead characters Off-Broadway at Cherry Lane, Atlantic, Barrow Group,Rattlestick Playwrights, Jane St., Soho Rep/Walkerspace, Epic Theatre. Her work has been met with stellar reviews from The New York Times, Variety, Broadway.com, TimeOut, NY Post and others.

In Television, she has recurred and co-starred on NBC: Manifest, Blindspot, Law and Order: SVU, Law and Order: Organized Crime, CBS: FBI: Most Wanted; FX: The Americans.

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Jennifer is an Associate Professor at the City University of New York at Lehman College. She is also an Adjunct Professor at NYU Tisch UGFTV and Drama and is a top director and teacher at Stonestreet Studios where she taught and directed Miles Teller in The Musicians, Rachel Brosnahan, Michael Gandolfini, Camila Mendez, Rachel Matthews and Jack Quaid, among others. She has been a Visiting Professor at SUNY Purchase, The New School for Drama (COPA) for their BFA and MFA in Acting, AMDA and a Guest Artist at SUNY New Paltz, Vassar.

 

As a second-generation Lee Strasberg acting teacher, she consistently instills essential tools and techniques to thousands of actors. Her unique approach and perspective as a practitioner to both foundational acting technique and specific on-camera training have afforded her the opportunity to distill with confidence and grace the necessary components to succeed as a working actor on stage and screen. Her Jump Then Justify® character development workshop has been a highly sought after approach to creating riveting characters for screen.

 

Jennifer McCabe Studios Hudson Valley location provides a transformational and inspirational learning environment for each student.