The Actors Studio is a membership organization for professional actors located in the Old Labor Stage at 432 West 44th Street 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 Stanislavski. An organization (U.S. spelling) or organisation (U.K. spelling) is a formal group of people with one or more shared goals. ... A professional works to receive payment for an activity (as a profession), which usually requires expertise and carries with it socially significant mores and folkways. ... Actors in period costume sharing a joke whilst waiting between takes during location filming. ... Midtown Manhattan, looking north from the Empire State Building, 2005 New York City (officially named the City of New York) is the most populous city in the United States, the most densely populated major city in North America, and is at the center of international finance, politics, entertainment, and culture. ... 1947 was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Elia Kazan Elia Kazan (September 7, 1909 – September 28, 2003) was a Greek-born American film and theatre director and producer. ... 1902-1986 Cheryl Crawford influential female Broadway producers. ... Method acting is an acting technique in which actors apply natural rules and laws to theatrical and screen acting in an effort to aid the actor with the process of performing a role. ... The Group Theatre was a left-wing theater collective, formed in New York in 1931 by Harold Clurman, Cheryl Crawford and Lee Strasberg. ... // Events and trends The 1930s were spent struggling for a solution to the global depression. ... Konstantin (Constantin) Stanislavski (Константин Сергеевич Станиславский / Алексéев) (January 5, 1863–August 7, 1938) was a Russian theatre and acting innovator. ...

The Studio came to worldwide recognition under the leadership of Lee Strasberg, who took over the helm in 1952. Lee Strasberg, born Israel Lee Strassberg (in Budzanów, Austria-Hungary, now Budanov, Ukraine) on November 17, 1901 to Ida and Baruch Meyer, was an actor and acting teacher. ... 1952 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ...

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. Actors in period costume sharing a joke whilst waiting between takes during location filming. ...

From September, 1994, through May, 2005, the Studio collaborated with New School University in the education of Masters level theatre students at the Actors Studio Drama School (ASDS). The New School is an institution of higher learning in New York City. ...

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. A television program is the content of television broadcasting. ... Inside the Actors Studio is a program on the Bravo cable television channel which premiered in 1995 and is hosted by James Lipton. ... Coaxial cable is often used to transmit cable television into the house Cable television or Community Antenna Television (CATV) (often shortened to cable) is a system of providing television, FM radio programming and other services to consumers via radio frequency signals transmitted directly to people’s televisions through fixed optical... Bravo is a cable television network owned by NBC Universal, is currently seen in more than 70 million homes and was the first service dedicated to film, drama, and the performing arts when it launched in December 1980. ... James Lipton (born September 19, 1926, Detroit, Michigan) is dean emeritus of the Actors Studio Drama School at New School University in New York City. ... In an educational setting, a dean is a person with significant authority . ...

Famous alumni

Over its long history, many famous and successful actors, directors and playwrights have come out of the Studio, including: The film director, on the right, gives last minute direction to the cast and crew, whilst filming a costume drama on location in London. ... A playwright is an author of plays for performance in the theater. ...

• Edward Albee
• James Baldwin
• Anne Bancroft
• Marlon Brando
• James Dean
• Jane Fonda
• Martin Landau
• Norman Mailer
• Steve McQueen
• Marilyn Monroe
• Paul Newman
• Robert Ginty
• Robert De Niro
• Al Pacino
• Geraldine Page
• Will Patton
• Sidney Poitier
• Mickey Rourke
• Kim Stanley
• Eli Wallach
• Tennessee Williams
• Shelley Winters
• Joanne Woodward
• Scott Patterson

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External links

• History of the Actors Studio
• PBS American Masters Series profile
• Inside the Actors Studio