Clayton Guiltner
Adjunct Professor of Theatre Arts
Clayton Guiltner teaches Acting for Television and Film, Acting I, and Script Analysis as well as courses in Theatre and Cinema history. He is a producer, director, and writer for stage, television, and film. Mr. Guiltner is founder of the Hollywood based production company Guiltner Creative Productions LLC, and previously served as the Producing Artistic Director for The Grex Group Theatre in New York City and GrexGroupLA in Los Angeles. Clayton holds a Master of Fine Arts in Directing, a Master of Arts degree in Business Leadership, and a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre.
As a classically trained actor, he began his career touring nationally with the Act One Drama Company before transitioning to creative producing, directing, and writing for a boutique film production company in Orlando, Florida. Years later, he returned to live theatre. He began producing and directing shows regionally and in New York City and L.A. and has directed numerous musicals and plays including The Music Man, Into The Woods, Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Romeo and Juliet, Twelfth Night, Proof, Dead Man’s Cell Phone, Miss Julie, The Hairy Ape, Thirst, and many others.
As member of the Directors Unit of the renowned Actors Studio under the direction of late Martin Landau and veteran Broadway and television director Lou Antonio, Clayton was encouraged to begin directing for television and film and is currently producing an animated Hip Hop feature film, “The Golden Microphone,” and is producing and directing a Holiday Rom Com feature film, “Hope’s Hollywood Christmas.” His previous work, Finding Miles, has been enjoyed by audiences worldwide on Amazon Prime.
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EMAIL: cguiltner@vcccd.edu