TAP The Artist’s Playhouse
The company

Working actors who teach.

Casting offices, Broadway, Kubrick sets, the Strasberg Institute — everyone who teaches at TAP has done the work they’re asking you to do.

Alex Watson
Founder · Actor · Coach

Alex Watson

Studied theater at the University of Virginia, then came to Los Angeles to train with Ivana Chubbuck while working in casting at Betty Mae alongside Mary Vernieu and Anne McCarthy — on films including Any Given Sunday, Requiem for a Dream and Scary Movie.

Private coaching followed, with referrals from Hollywood’s top agencies. Clients include Jeremy Renner, Adrianne Palicki, Edward Furlong, Brad Renfro, Jason Acuña, Winter Ave Zoli and Fiona Gubelmann.

Still a working actor, in studio films including Deuces Wild and Road Trip and on television — most recently Peacock’s The Paper and Apple TV+’s Palm Royale.

Kirk Taylor
Actor · Singer · Teacher

Kirk Taylor

Trained by Lee Strasberg and Stella Adler; BFA in Drama from NYU. On screen in Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket, The Sum of All Fears and The Angriest Man in Brooklyn with Robin Williams, and on television in NCIS: Los Angeles, Law & Order and Chicago Hope.

On stage he led Five Guys Named Moe, sang with Chaka Khan, and performed at Carnegie Hall. He began teaching at the Lee Strasberg Institute in New York — former students include Jesse L. Martin, Chandra Wilson and Ken Marino — and leads intensives from Montreal to Norway.

Every new student starts with one round of Scene Study.

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