About Jeffrey

Jeffrey Stubblefield is an accomplished actor with a career spanning 20 years in professional theatre, film, and television, with over 15 years experience teaching and coaching in Los Angeles. Jeffrey teaches the Meisner Technique at UCLA Extension and holds a full roster of private coaching clients throughout Los Angeles.

Teaching Philosophy:

As a teacher and coach, Jeffrey utilizes a training technique based on the principles developed by Sanford Meisner and William Esper, and subscribes to Meisner’s tenet that what an actor does doesn’t depend on him, but on what the other actor does to him. As such, Jeffrey helps the actor to listen and react instead of act; to work impulsively and to respond emotionally and not intellectually. Through this technique, Jeffrey is able to bring an actor to life and help them create an audition or performance that is both spontaneous and captivating.

No matter the skill level, Jeffrey approaches all actors with the utmost respect and sensitivity, and with an understanding that real creativity and freedom can only be achieved if an actor feels safe and valued.

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Professional Bio

Jeffrey is a native of Pasadena, CA. After graduating from the University of Southern California, he moved to New York City where he studied with famed Meisner teacher, William Esper. While in New York, Jeffrey was a founding member of the IMUA Theatre Company and appeared in several off-broadway productions including Julius Caesar, The Dumb Waiter, and Beyond Therapy, among others.

Since moving to Los Angeles, Jeffrey has worked steadily in both film and television. Film credits include the recent short This is Jack (Ojai Film Festival, Los Angeles Film Awards official selection, WINNER Award of Merit Best Shorts Competition, LAIFFA Official Selection 2017), Seth Macfarlane's Ted 2, John Chuldenko's Nesting and the lead role in Pedestrian ( Dances With Films Festival).

Jeffrey's television credits include recurring roles on Jennifer Lopez’s Good Trouble, Robert Townsend's (I'm Gonna Git You Sucka, Hollywood Shuffle, Five Heartbeats) Diary of a Single Mom, John Slattery's (Madmen) campaign manager in Desperate Housewives, and as A.D.A. Jeff Carlton in David E. Kelley's The Practice. Other guest starring credits include Without a Trace opposite Anthony Lapaglia, Outlaw with Jimmy Smits, Recovery Road, The Ghost Whisperer, Miss Match opposite Alicia Silverstone and Ryan O'Neal, David E. Kelley's The Wedding Bells, Scrubs, ER, and Felicity opposite Kerri Russell, to name a few.

Jeffrey has appeared in over two dozen theatrical productions in LA, most notably Stephen Metcalfe's world premiere of The Tragedy of the Commons with Brian Kerwin at the Ruskin Theatre and the West Coast Premiere of John Patrick Shanley's Beggars in the House of Plenty. Jeffrey has also worked extensively at the famed Actors Studio under the guidance of Martin Landau, Lou Antonio and Penny Allen.

In addition to his acting work, Jeffrey has been teaching acting and privately coaching professional actors in New York and Los Angeles for the past ten years. His clients have worked on such shows and films as Masters of Sex, Modern Family, Dumb and Dumber To, NCIS, Major Crimes, Rizzoli and Isles, and Lucifer to name just a few.

Jeffrey teaches Meisner Technique at UCLA Extension, acting at LA Center Studios and is a guest teaching artist/director at Notre Dame High School in Sherman Oaks, CA.