Actors Studio
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organization for professional actors, theatre directors and playwrights
Key facts
- Formation
- October 5, 1947 ; 78 years ago ( October 5, 1947 )
- Type
- Drama school
- Purpose
- Organization for professional actors, theatre directors and playwrights
- Headquarters
- 432 West 44th Street, Manhattan , New York City
- Region served
- United States
- Key people
- Al Pacino , Alec Baldwin , Ellen Burstyn (co-presidents), Martha Gehman , Javier Molina, Katherine Cortez, Salome Jens (co-artistic directors), Estelle Parsons (assistant artistic director)
- Website
- theactorsstudio .org
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
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Encyclopedic overview
The Actors Studio is a membership organization for professional actors, theatre directors and playwrights located on West 44th Street in Hell's Kitchen in New York City.
The studio is best known for its work refining and teaching method acting. It was founded in 1947 by Elia Kazan, Cheryl Crawford, and Robert Lewis, and later directed by Lee Strasberg, all former members of the Group Theatre, an early pioneer of the acting techniques of Konstantin Stanislavsky that would become known as method acting.
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