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With over 25 years as an acting coach and director, Derrel has taught at the renowned Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute, as well as for Estelle Harman (head of talent/development at Universal Studios), Tracy Roberts (co-founder of the West Coast Actor's Studio), and numerous top theatrical agencies in Los Angeles. He has directed theatre programs at the Sinai Akiba Academy, VBS Day School, and Heschel Middle School. Additionally, he leads Derrel Maury's Young Actor's Workshop and was featured on CNN in a special report about acting classes for children.
Derrel Maury became a SAG/AFTRA member in 1967. Starting at a young age, his early roles were minor "crawl-on" parts. He was a series regular on Norman Lear's Apple Pie (1978), starring Dabney Coleman and Rue McClanahan; appeared on One Day at a Time (1975), where he dated both Mackenzie Phillips and Valerie Bertinelli; was a series regular on Gary Marshall's Joanie Loves Chachi (1982), alongside Scott Baio and Erin Moran; played Jughead in James Komack's Archie (1976); and starred in the 1970s cult classic film Massacre at Central High (1976), among others.
His credits also include the TV film/pilot I Met a Producer and Moved to L.A. (2011), the cable show Cook Her Pants Off (2011), and films such as The Tramp (2010) and Wasteland (2011). He won Best Actor at the New York Short Film Festival (2007) for his performance in Wither (2007).
Born and raised in Los Angeles, Derrel grew up in a theatrical family. His father was a theatre arts professor at UCLA, and his mother was a stage actress. His first leading stage role came at age 10 as The Artful Dodger in Oliver. At 12, he starred in A Thousand Clowns alongside John Rubinstein. His adult stage roles include R.P. McMurphy in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Devil in Damn Yankees, Lt. Greenwald in The Caine Mutiny, Jake in Jake's Women, and Cole Porter in Red Hot & Cole, for which he won the West Valley Theatre Award for Best Actor in a Musical. However, his most fulfilling stage experience was performing with both his mother and father in a production of The Subject Was Roses, directed by George Schaefer.
