colleagues say...

"Philip, you are a great director, you taught me how to direct, you were my teacher...you are an actor's director...you are even tempered and have a great command of the set...you are a joy to work with"...JIM BELUSHI...film and television star.  

"The reason that Philip Charles MacKenzie's class, "The Actor on Film" succeeds where so many others fail is that he puts the emphasis firmly on the central element - the acting, not on the standard tricks of on-camera training. A sensitive, rigorous and supportive teacher, Philip understands and helps to elicit that moment of self-revelation in acting that registers so powerfully on both film and television. He brings many decades of experience and a high level of refined taste to his work"...RON VAN LIEU...Lloyd Richards Chair of Acting, Yale School of Drama.  

"Philip Charles MacKenzie is a wonderful actor, director, teacher. I use the word "wonderful" sparingly in regard to teachers and Philip deserves every syllable. He not only knows whereof he speaks, he has a wonderful way of helping the actor discover what he or she needs to understand. His course, "The Actor on Film" is of use to seasoned actors as well as actors preparing to shoot their first film. By focusing on the basic acting issues involved in a given scene, the actor more readily accepts the camera as just another asset to his work"...J. MICHAEL MILLER...President, The Actors Center, New York.

"Philip Charles MacKenzie has a deep understanding of what it takes to act truthfully and well...he can show actors how to translate a stage process into one for the camera.  In his class actors revisit and retool the basics of good acting as they learn the nuts and bolts of camera technique. For this reason alone, you may want to study with him more than once"...MELISSA SMITH...Conservatory Director, American Conservatory Theatre, San Francisco. 

"Philip is one of those rare people whose passion is the actor and knows what the actor is about: the human condition, vulnerability and honesty"...MYRL SCHREIBMAN...Producer, Director.  

"Thank you for all of the precious time you have given us. I say precious because each moment you spent with us, you gave us you, the real you. I never felt that you were holding back with us. You truly cared about our work and about us as people and that showed through each and every time. I am extremely grateful for your mentoring and guidance, for taking us seriously as actors, and for never doubting us even when we doubted ourselves. It has truly been an honor to have you with us, to work with us, and to watch you work. I feel I have learned so much, not only from performing for you, but through watching your direction while others were performing. I say in all honesty that this class has been one of the great memories I will take with me"...JEN C.  

"I really wanted to let you know how much I got from your class. It was so important for me to come back (in a new way) to the intimacy and electricity of the moment. It also made me very excited about film acting and I hadn't been before"...KATIE H.  

"Thanks Philip. I doubt I will ever forget you"...JACKIE R.  

"...you truly are one of the best teachers I've ever had"...NICK H.  

"...thank you very much. I have found everything we learned to be super valuable. While I have been in LA, I have been doing some auditions and all the skills we learned with you have been so useful"...TED W.  

"...the time you spent with us has helped me a lot artistically and was one of the best acting experiences I've had"...LUCAS A.