ACTORS STUDIO

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The 'Actors Studio' is a membership organization for professional actors, theatre directors and playwrights located in the Old Labor Stage at 432 West 44th Street in the Hells Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. Founded in 1947 by Elia Kazan, Cheryl Crawford, and Robert Lewis, the Studio is known for its work refining and teaching method acting, an approach originally developed by the Group Theatre in the 1930s based on the innovations of Konstantin Stanislavsky.
The Studio came to worldwide recognition under the leadership of Lee Strasberg, who took over the helm in 1952.
While at the Studio, actors work together to develop their skills in an experimental environment, where they can take risks as performers without the pressure of commercial roles.

Contents
The Actors Studio Drama School
Famous alumni
External links

The Actors Studio Drama School


From September 1994 through May 2005, the Studio collaborated with New School University in the education of masters-level theater students at the 'Actors Studio Drama School' (ASDS). In 2005, New School President Bob Kerrey chose not to renew a contract with the Actors Studio, ending the collaboration and causing much controversy.
Since fall 2006, the Actors Studio has offered a three-year MFA degree program through Pace University. [1]
The television program ''Inside the Actors Studio'' airs on the cable television network Bravo. It is hosted by James Lipton, Dean Emeritus of the Actors Studio Drama School, and provides in-depth interviews with actors, directors, writers, and other artists, some of whom are members of the Studio. The program was taped in front of the students of ASDS, and served as a class seminar for them, until the school's dissolution. Beginning with the twelfth season, in the fall of 2005, the ''Inside the Actors Studio'' is taped at the Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts at Pace University's New York City campus.

Famous alumni


Over its long history, many famous and successful actors, directors and playwrights have come out of the Studio, including:








Edward Albee

Carroll Baker

James Baldwin

Anne Bancroft

Ellen Barkin

Marlon Brando

Ellen Burstyn

Lee J. Cobb

Montgomery Clift

Bruce Dern

Jack Nicholson

Dustin Hoffman


Robert De Niro

James Dean

Jane Fonda

Robert Ginty

Steven Hill

Anne Jackson

Harvey Keitel

Richard Kuranda

Martin Landau

Diane Ladd

Norman Mailer

Karl Malden


Terrence McNally

Steve McQueen

Allan Miller

Marilyn Monroe

Paul Newman

Al Pacino

Geraldine Page

Estelle Parsons

Chazz Palminteri

Will Patton

Sidney Poitier


Pat Hingle

Mickey Rourke

Kim Stanley

Maureen Stapleton

Rod Steiger

Christopher Walken

Eli Wallach

Tennessee Williams

Shelley Winters

Joanne Woodward

External links



The official web site of The Actors Studio

PBS American Masters Series profile

''Inside the Actors Studio''

The Actors Studio MFA Program at Pace University

Audio collection of the Actors Studio from 1956-1969 at the Wisconsin Historical Society

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