Ivana Chubbuck is the founder and director of the Ivana Chubbuck Studio and creator of the cutting edge and widely adopted Chubbuck Technique. There are 16 ongoing classes at the Ivana Chubbuck Studio, ranging from introductory to master classes and cold reading classes. The Studio maintains a focus on producing and nurturing working actors in a rigorous professional environment. It is our mission to empower our students with the tools to become successful and to make dynamic, empowered choices in their work.
Some of the actors Ivana has worked with during her 30-plus year career include Academy Award winners and nominees:
Halle Berry, James Franco, Charlize Theron, Brad Pitt, Jake Gyllenhaal, Jon Voight, Kate Hudson, Elisabeth Shue, Djimon Honsou, Terence Howard and Catherine Keener
Virtually every year Ivana's students are well represented at the Academy Awards, Emmys, Golden Globes, Tonys, and many other international awards. For the 2006 Academy Awards Ivana's students were nominated in every acting category: Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress.
She has also worked with:
Jim Carrey, Gerard Butler, Ryan Reynolds, Chris Pine, David Boreanaz, Meg Ryan, Poppy Montgomery, Emily Deschanel, Eva Mendes, Craig Robinson, Jessica Alba, Kate Bosworth, Damon Wayans, Liv Tyler, Mary J Blige, Aubrey Plaza, Sienna Miller, Adam Baldwin, America Ferrera, Anna Friel, Kevin Nealon, Nina Dobrev, Nikki Reed, Aubrey Plaza, Rob Schneider, Eliza Dushku, Ian Somerhalder, Pink, Paul Wesley, Malin Akerman, Jon Stewart, Carrie-Anne Moss, Judith Light, Minka Kelly, Garry Shandling, David Spade, Dougray Scott, Amy Smart, Julian McMahon, Jessica Biel, Jennifer Morrison, Amy Brenneman, Matthew Perry, Beyoncé Knowles, Ali Larter and Elizabeth Mitchell
And a host of many others. Ivana works one-on-one with more than 100 of Hollywood's premiere stars, directors and writer/producers.
In October of 2004 Penguin Books published Ivana's book, The Power of the Actor. The book became an instant success, spending weeks on the Los Angeles Times top ten Bestsellers List. For more than a year it was the number one selling book about acting at Barnes and Noble. Currently her book is being adopted for use as a textbook in many colleges and universities across the country, as well as having been translated into a number of languages around the world, including Spanish, Hebrew, Romanian, Italian, Danish and soon to be Portuguese.
Ivana has also been a guest master teacher at The Juilliard School of Drama in New York, teaching a selected group of premiere fourth year students. She has also taught workshops around the world, including: Australia, Denmark, The Netherlands, London, Israel, Canada, etc.
Ivana Chubbuck was honored by The Russian International Film Festival (she is of Russian decent) with a lifetime achievement award for her contributions to the film industry alongside Leonardo DiCaprio, William Friedkin, and Francis Ford Coppola.
She has been featured in numerous articles in such national publications as The New York Times, Vanity Fair, People, USA Today, Cosmopolitan, Paris Vogue, Portugal N’Style, GQ, Premiere, Grazia Magazine, The London Times, The London Guardian, Yedioth, Elle, Australian Herald Sun, Sydney Sunday Telegraph, Hollywood Reporter/Daily Variety, New York Post, Politiken, Parade, and Movieline, as well as in periodicals in Canada, Great Britain, Italy, Germany, Australia, Japan, France, Israel, Denmark, The Netherlands, Mexico, South America, Turkey, Romania, Poland and Spain. Ivana has also been profiled on television shows such as: "Entertainment Tonight", Flash- TV, MTV, "Today Show Australia", Israel’s Channel 2 News, KTLA Morning show, Denmark’s Aloha, Holland’s “Jensen!”, CBC, NPR, Germany’s RTL, VH-1, E! and the BBC.
Access a copy of Ivana's book: "The Power of the Actor". The book has been translated into many languages at:
www.ivanachubbuck.com/order
or
ENGLISH version:
http://www.amazon.com/Power-Actor-Ivana-Chubbuck/dp/1592401538/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1295218344&sr=1-1
SPANISH version:
http://www.amazon.com/Poder-Actuacion-Metodo-Chubbuck-Spanish/dp/0979076692/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1295215620&sr=1-1
ISRAELI version:
http://www.text.org.il/index.php?book=0908071
AUSTRALIAN version:
http://www.newsouthbooks.com.au/isbn/0868197793.htm
ROMANIAN version:
http://www.buybooks.ro/puterea-actorului/puterea-actorului.html
ITALIAN version:
http://audinoeditore.it/libro.php?collana_id=V&collana_progr=5%20%3Chttp://audinoeditore.it/libro.php?collana_id=V&collana_progr=5%3E
DANISH version:
http://dramashop.dk/product/skuespillerens-magt-og-kraft-3802/
