Our Team – Actors Habitat

MARTINEZ

A passionate teacher who cares deeply about the success of his students, Martinez (Founder and Owner of Actors Habitat) is an award nominated Actor and Producer from Los Angeles who studied at the prestigious Boston University Conservatory program.

Martinez, an industry veteran of over 16 years, brings his students the unbelievably unique perspective of being a Producer on a Television series that will be streaming on a major network, and gives them the on set expiriences gained from acting opposite a wide array of Academy Award winners, Golden Globe nominees, and Emmy winning talent. He has over 50 credits with appearances on numerous hit shows like The Walking Dead, Grey’s Anatomy, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Prison Break, Macguyver, Days of Our Lives, Rectify, Young and the Restless, Found, Saints and Sinners, CSI: NY, Deep Water starring Ben Affleck & Ana de Armas, and Red One starring The Rock and Chris Evans

CECELIA SPECHT

With a career in film and television that spans over 2 decades, and an uncanny knowledge of film history, Cecelia Specht embodies what it means to be a consummate professional.

This award winning actress earned her Masters Degree from arguably one of the greatest and most important acting schools in American history…the legendary Actors Studio at The New School University in New York, where she remains a life member. Yes, home of the famed television show Inside the Actors Studio and more importantly the birth place of American Method Acting and the iconic teachers that would redefine “craft” for generations to come (Sanford Meisner, Lee Strasberg and Stella Adler).

Cecelia would not only establish her self on hit shows like Las Vegas, Dexter, Criminal Minds, Parks and Recreation, Young and the Restless, Castle, Revenge, Scandal, Being Mary Jane and The Have and The Have Nots, but she would also go on to teach at top acting studios around the world including The New York Film Academy, The East L.A. Classic Theatre Company, and The University of Melbourne, Australia.

Students are especially lucky as her classes are overflowing with the knowledge passed down to her by her teacher and mentor, Oscar Winner Martin Landau. You can catch Cecelia in the recently released film adaptation of the Emma Chase NY TIMES BEST SELLING SERIES: TANGLED

SARAH ROBSON

An award winning actress, producer, entrepreneur and the co-founder of Actors Habitat, Sarah also brings a unique perspective having assisted in the casting of some of Greg Berlanti’s most successful television shows for DC Entertainment and Warner Bros.

Her acting credits include the lead role in the critically acclaimed independent film Between the Forest and the Field and recurring roles on television shows such as Supergirl (opposite Melissa Benoist), Superstition (opposite Mario Van Peebles) and Tyler Perry’s The Haves and the Have Nots.

Sarah is thankful to consider herself one of the lucky actors to move from Los Angeles and find a voice and place here in the Atlanta market, finding a balance between acting, directing an award winning play, newly found Motherhood and Executive Producing a new feature length film Black, White and the Grey’s: an emotional drama of an interracial couple going through a divorce while being forced to quarantine together through the Covid Pandemic and the Black Lives Matter Movement.

Actors Habitat has been a vision of passion for years. Fostering a community of actors and industry professionals to create art and change the film industry forever. She is very excited to have you join in on the journey!