Chris A. Cooke Music and Acting Studio

Chris A. Cooke Music and Acting Studio is a music school in Lancaster, CA, offering music lessons and acting classes for students who want to study with working professionals. The studio teaches drums, voice, piano, guitar, bass, flute, and violin alongside acting, improv, and stage combat, with instruction shaped by the experience of performers who currently work in their fields.

The teaching staff includes Chris A. Cooke (drums and acting), Sharon Roberts (voice, trumpet, French Horn, saxophone, beginning piano, and kids acting), Barbara Leoni (guitar, piano, bass, ukulele, mandolin, and voice), Mike Wicken (guitar), Sarah Bunch (violin), Juliet Roberts (voice), E. Zane Wood (bass), Pat Wright (drums), and Marci M Krause (flute), with Vic Grady providing online instruction in electric and acoustic guitar, electric bass, voice, piano, music theory, and songwriting. Chris A. Cooke has been a professional actor and drummer for thirty-five years in Los Angeles and has taught for nineteen of those years, covering acting, improv, scene study, and theatrical, commercial, and cold reading audition techniques. His screen credits include appearances on the television series Unsolved Mysteries and other films, along with a Best Actor award for the short film Easter Bunny. As a drummer, he has toured and recorded with Gary Allan, Delaney Bramlett, Albert Lee, The Seeds, and Rich Harper, and has performed with Greg London and the ICONS show. The studio can be reached at [email protected] or (661) 992-6659, and maintains a presence on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube.

The studio sits on East Avenue K10, roughly a quarter mile from Business Center Parkway and the Los Angeles County Assessor's office, about a third of a mile from iLEAD Lancaster Charter School, and within half a mile of Division Street, West Avenue L, and Sierra Highway.

With a 5.00 rating across 244 reviews, the studio holds a long track record of feedback from students and families in the Antelope Valley. Lancaster students looking for acting coaches and instrumental teachers with real stage and screen credits find both at one address on Avenue K10.