Who We Are

Award-winning teacher Gregory Berger (Berg) founded Berg Studios in Los Angeles in 1998, where he serves as the Master Acting Teacher. His clients have received Academy Awards, Emmy awards/nominations, and Tony awards. He is a graduate and former faculty member of the Yale School of Drama, where he taught On-Camera Acting Technique.

Gregory’s film coaching clients and students include Oscar winner Lupita Nyong’o (Us, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, A Quiet Place: Day One), Oscar and Emmy winner Riz Ahmed (Sound of Metal, Mogul Mowgli, Encounter), and Winston Duke (Black Panther, Nine Days). He has also coached Emmy winner Aziz Ansari on (Good Fortune), starring Keanu Reeves and Seth Rogen, and Emmy nominee Michaela Coel, in David Lowery’s A24 film “Mother Mary”. Additional students include Jonathan Majors (Emmy nominee), Yahya Abdul-Mateen II (Emmy winner), Simone Ashley (SAG Award nominee), Hasan Minhaj, and Moses Ingram (Emmy nominee).

Gregory’s recent television credits include coaching series regular leads on acclaimed and award-winning shows (see carousel) such as The Night Agent, The Pitt, Yellowjackets, Pulse, The Residence, Nine Perfect Strangers, Gen V, Tell Me Lies, and Harlem, as well as Scorsese-Spielberg’s Cape Fear and Brothers featuring Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson.

As an actor, he has been nominated for Best Actor at the Beverly Hills Film Festival for the film Persona. The film was also in the semi-finals for the Best Short category for the Academy Awards. Guadalupe the Virgin, another film he starred in, was named best film at the Mexico International Film Festival.
Prior​ to Yale,​ he trained at The Circle in the Square Theatre in New York City.
He studied with Paul Mann (who coached Sidney Poitier and Al Pacino), Earle R. Gister ( Frances McDormand, Angela Bassett, Paul Giamatti, Leiv Schrieber, John Turturro), Michael Howard (Kerry Washington, Olympia Dukakis), Kim Stanley (Joanne Woodward, Jane Fonda), and Nikos Psacharopoulos (founder of Williamstown Theatre Festival).

Gregory’s New York stage credits include Broadway credits Come Back to the Five and Dime Jimmy Dean, The Flowing Peach, Romeo and Juliet, The Admiral Bashful, and The Shrewing of Blanco Posnet. Off-Broadway credits include Molly, Andrew After Dark, Much Ado About Nothing, Faust, and The Colonization. Regional credits include work at the Yale Repertory Theater and The Yale School of Drama: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, King Lear, King John, Measure for Measure, Three Sisters, and A Ride Across Lake Constance, to name a few. Among his directing credits are Dolores and Sisters at the Company of Angels and the West Coast premiere of John Ford Noonan’s POPPS.

Berg Studios has also been voted Best Acting Class, Best Classical Class, Best Monologue Coach, and Private Coach by Backstage Magazine. He teaches bi-coastally and leads various international workshops.

Camillia Monet is an American actress and film producer. She began her career in acting, appearing in films such as War of the Worlds, directed by Steven Spielberg, playing opposite Tom Cruise, Seabiscuit , opposite Tobey Maguire and as Aurora Aceveda in the Emmy Award FX hit series “The Shield.” 

Monet graduated with a masters degree from Yale University ( Drama School) and graduated from UCLA’s Producing Program. Some of her t.v. guest roles include: CBS; Cold Case, FX; Saving Grace, NBC Law & Order, and CBS; The Agency. Recently she completed filming in the upcoming feature Await The Dawn. And will be featured in a documentary alongside Sally Kirkland entitled “ Three Generations” women in a new Hollywood. Camillia’s Broadway, Off-Broadway and regional theatre credits include: The Roundabout Theatre, Lincoln Center, Playwrights’ Horizon, Second Stage, Here Theatre, Portland Center Stage, Actor’s Theatre of Louisville, San Diego Repertory South Coast Repertory, Indiana Repertory ,Philadelphia Drama Guild, Merrimack Theatre, A.C.T. , Mark Taper Theatre. She’s been named one of the top female entrepreneurs of 2015 in Hollywood and was praised for her work in female empowerment by Splash Magazine. She has been a Guest Artist and Speaker at UCLA, Rome University, and Scuola Di Teatro in Bologna, Italy. She is an adjunct professor at various institutions such as NYU ( Tisch School), Woodbury University and the New York Film Academy. She is an active  board member for SHINE! YOUTH MUSIC THEATRE, Advisory Board member of LoNyLa, Women In New Hollywood Film Festival , 2019 Juror for Walla Walla Movie Crush Festival and President Emeritus of the Figari Film Festival, Sardenia Italy.

Tessa Auberjonois has appeared on The Affair, Shameless, Lucifer, I’m Dying Up Here, Modern Family, Law & Order(s), ER, How I Met Your Father, and many other shows as well as feature and short films. On stage, she has originated roles and helped develop new works in numerous new American plays and worked closely with playwrights such as Rajiv Joseph, Annie Weisman, Neil LaBute, Lucas Hnath, Melissa Ross, Jessica Goldberg, Richard Greenberg, Lucy Thurber, Noah Haidle, etc. and has performed in many classical and contemporary plays Off-Broadway and at theatres across the country such as the Kirk Douglas and South Coast Repertory, Hartford Stage, Yale Rep and The Shakespeare Theatre of D.C. among others.

Her voice-over work is extensive and includes Cartoon Network and The Simpsons, audiobooks, videogames, and re-voicing lead roles in feature films. Awards include the 2020 Ovation Award for Best Lead Actress in a play, the 2018 Lunt-Fontanne Award, Best Actress in a play 2017 OC Weekly, Nominated for Best Female Guest Star for a TV Voiced Performance 2018 from Behind the Voice Actors, Sermoonjoy Fund and Fox Foundation Fellowships, and the Oliver Thorndike Award for excellence in acting upon graduation from The Yale School Drama, where she trained, as well as LAMDA. She has taught and coached voice and speech, dialect and accent work, and voiceover to actors at many programs in LA and privately as well as being currently on faculty at AMDA.

Shawna Pardo is an award-winning actress, writer, producer and mentor who is thrilled to join the faculty at Berg Studios. As a teacher and coach, Shawna incorporates the classical techniques taught by the masters of Russian theatre, Chekhov and Stanislavski, and a fusion of techniques fine tuned and mastered working with her mentor Gregory-Berger-Sobek. Much like Berg, she does not adhere strictly to one methodology and will often incorporate physical gesture, mask or even clown exercises to guide actors in unveiling new layers of artistry. Students can expect to be led on a journey that encourages curiosity and imaginative play to get to the core network of themselves as creatives.

Some of Shawna’s theatre credits include Antigone, Julius Caesar, ‘night, Mother, Raised in Captivity, Ashes to Ashes, The Real Thing and has also starred in various plays for the Hollywood Fringe Festival. She was also a member of The Shakespeare
Players, who performed a mishmash of Shakespeare’s most beloved plays with characters drawn from a hat.

In addition to her theatre credits, Shawna has worked in TV development with Lee Aronsohn from CBS and starred in or produced a variety of indie films that have shined in festivals ranging from The San Francisco Black Film Festival, Slamdance, Orlando Film Festival to the Boston Museum of Fine Art.

Medina Senghore is a multifaceted talent in the performing arts, holding a Master of Fine Arts in Acting from Juilliard, a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School, and a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from Howard University, where she graduated summa cum laude.
Currently, she serves as an instructor at California State University, Long Beach, and Pomona College, teaching fundamental principles of acting. Additionally, she conducts master classes at Claremont McKenna College and has developed expertise in Shakespearean instruction at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting.

In the realm of television, Medina has made significant appearances in notable series such as “The Walking Dead: Dead City,” and “Dr. Death,” among others. She played prominent roles in “The President is Missing” and “Happy!” showcasing her versatility as an actress. Her performances earned her recognition as a nominee for Best Supporting Actress at the Indie Series Awards.
In film, Medina continues to shine with her work on projects like “Real Live Girl,” along with several shorts and feature films, including “Those Who Wish Me Dead” and “Keeping Company,” the latter of which achieved the title of Best Ensemble Cast at FilmQuest in Provo, UT.
With a blend of artistic and academic prowess, Medina Senghore exemplifies a commitment to both the craft of acting and the enriching of future generations in the theatrical arts.

Rosanny Zayas is a Dominican-American actress born in Brooklyn, New York and raised in Ozone Park, Queens. She received her MFA in Acting from The Juilliard School and has studied theater all over the world ( Midsummer at Oxford Program, Spain International Theater Program) and is the current recipient of the Ron Van Lieu scholarship for the National Alliance of Acting Teachers. With her starring performance as Helena for The Public Theater in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The New York Times reviewed,”Best is Rosanny Zayas as Helena, who demonstrates nimble comic timing and always seems to be completely in the moment — a rarer ability than you’d think, even among the best actors.” Some of her series regular roles include “Sophie Suarez” in Showtime’s THE L WORD GENERATION Q and “Detective Paola Martinez in ECHOES on Netflix. On THE L WORD, her solo song “ All About Me” was nominated for “Best Original Song in a Television Musical” at the 2023 Emmy Awards. Some of her recurring roles include ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK, THE CODE, ELEMENTARY and INSTINCT. On the film side, she was seen opposite Patricia Arquette and Angela Bassett in Cindy Chupack’s independent film, OTHERHOOD, and she appears in Jonathan Lisecki’s indie film MODERN PERSUASION. You can currently see her recurring on Netflix’s half hour sitcom THE UPSHAWS starring Mike Epps and Wanda Sykes.

Joby has performed at Lincoln Center, Playwrights Horizons, Yale Rep, South Coast Rep, A.R.T., The Berkshire Theater Festival, The Huntington Theater, Center Theater Group, and The Geffen Playhouse.

His television credits include: The Blacklist, The Exorcist, and The Good Fight. He holds a BFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the arts and an MFA from the Yale School of Drama. He has been teaching actors since 2006 and has taught at Columbia, NYU, Yale as well as at
the City College of New York. His background as a voice teacher is based on the combined works of Kristin Linklater and Katherine Fitzmaurice as taught by master teachers Walton Wilson and Grace Zandarski. He has also studied with Andrew Wade, former head of voice at the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Cornell studied acting at the Juilliard School of Drama. After an 8 year hiatus, in which he pursued a PH.D. in the history of capitalism, he returned to acting. Since then he has appeared in both Off-Broadway and Broadway productions where he once shared the stage with a childhood hero, James Earl Jones. He has appeared in nearly 25 television shows and four films, including a recurring role on the FX series, Rescue Me, playing the character of Richie.

Cornell has the good fortune to have a fun and successful voice-over career. This has included narrating several popular documentary series. Recording the narration for a series is truly a creative collaboration and he has enjoyed working with each group of directors and producers to craft a vocal sound that best compliments and enhances the content of their storylines. He’s also recorded for a wide range of commercial products and brands including Super 8 Motels, Hennessy VS Cognac, Ford,  Sony Records, Planters Almonds, Lowe’s Home Improvement. On the animation front, he’s voiced leading roles in video games and cartoons. He can also be heard as the voice on NFL Gameday Morning, on the NFL Network, which he has done for the past 4 years