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One almunus (famous former student) of The Actors Studio that you have heard of and at least two (prefereably more) pieces of their work (that you have also heard of)
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Elia Kazan was a student at The Studios and he wrote and produced screenplays and novels. He became "one of the consummate filmmakers of the 20th century",after directing a continual string of successful films, including, A Streetcar Named Desire, On the Waterfront, and East of Eden.
ReplyDeleteLee Strasberg was asked by Elia Kazan to join the Studio as one of its teachers and in 1951 he became its Artistic Director,a position he maintained until his death in 1982
ReplyDeleteHarold Edgar Clurman (September 18, 1901 – September 9, 1980) was a visionary American theatre director and drama critic, most famous for being one of the three original founders of the New York City's Group Theatre.
ReplyDeleteStella Adler was an American actress who started her acting career at the age of four in her family as part of her parents independant company. She studied, developed and improved the Russian way of acting which was unique in the American theatre. She founded a Stella Adler studio of acting in 1949. She died at the age of 91 after doing more than 100 plays.
ReplyDeleteAndreas Manolikakis is a Board Member of the Actors Studio and Chair of the Actors Studio Drama School at Pace University, New York City
ReplyDeleteThe roots of the Actors Studio go back to the Group Theatre (1931-1941)
Sanford Meinser studied, explored, developed and improved the work of the Russian masters with extraordinary results that were unique in the history of the American theatre and a new kind of acting was born.
ReplyDeleteRobert Lewis (March 16, 1909 – November 23, 1997) was an American actor, director, teacher, author and founder of the influential Actors Studio in New York in 1947.
ReplyDeleteRobert Lewis taught and trained artists improving their work.
In the 1970s, he was the Head of the Yale School of Drama Acting and Directing Departments.
Cheryl Crawford (American theatre producer and director)
ReplyDeleteShe is known as one of the founders (next to Elia Kazan and Robert Lewis) of the actors studio (founded in 1947 in New York)
and also known as one of the founders of the Group Theatre in New York (1931)
"Awake and Sing!" (The Group Theatre) and "Celebration" were one of her productions.
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ReplyDeleteEva Marie Saint (born 4 July 1924) is an American actress who has starred in films, on Broadway, and on television in a career spanning seven decades. Saint won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in On the Waterfront (1954), and later starred in Alfred Hitchcock's classic thriller North by Northwest (1959). She received Golden Globe and BAFTA nominations for A Hatful of Rain (1957) and won an Emmy Award for the miniseries People Like Us (1990). Her film career also includes roles in Raintree County (1957), Because of Winn-Dixie (2005), and Superman Returns (2006).
ReplyDeleteSaints first motion role was directed by Elia Kazan
Jack Nicholson- actor,film director and producer.
ReplyDeleteSomething I thought was interesting: 'In 2001, Nicholson was the first actor to receive the Stanislavsky Award at the Moscow International Film Festival for "conquering the heights of acting and faithfulness".'-Wikipedia :P
Also:"Once I got started acting I loved it. I wanted to be the best actor possible. I worked very hard at the craft of it. I went to classes for 12 years. I'm a member of The Actors Studio. There's nobody successful who didn't study a lot. It doesn't exist."-Magazine article-"PARADE"???
The Shining
One Flew over the cuckoo's nest
Little Shop of Horrors