Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute

Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute

Lee Strasberg Institute in 2011
Formation	1969
Type	Drama school
Headquarters	Manhattan, New York City
Region served	United States
Website	strasberg.com

The Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute (originally the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute) is an acting school located at 115 East 15th Street between Union Square East and Irving Place in the Union Square neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, as well as at 7936 Santa Monica Boulevard in West Hollywood, California. The school was founded by the noted acting teacher Lee Strasberg in 1969 to teach and promote the techniques of method acting.^[1]

The Institute has a relationship with the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, where students can study in an eight credit program.^[2] The institute is currently under the artistic direction of Anna Strasberg, Lee Strasberg's widow.^[3]

Notable alumni

Matt Adler[4] Khalilah Ali[5] Karen Allen[6] Nancy Allen[7] Antero Alli[8] Greg Anderson[9] Vito Antuofermo[10] Will Arnett[11] Srinivas Avasarala Blanche Baker[12] Adam Bakri[13] Alec Baldwin[14] Talia Balsam[15] Rik Barnett[16] Alma Beltran[17] Elizabeth Berridge[18] Dean Biasucci[19] Chastity Bono[20] Loo Brealey[21] Cyrus Broacha[22] Rachel Brosnahan[23] Jim J. Bullock[24] Steve Buscemi[25] Rosanne Cash[26] Kiera Chaplin[27] Kevin Corrigan[28] Luciano Cruz-Coke[29] Ben Curtis[30] Kelly Curtis[31]

Claire Danes[32] Rosario Dawson[33] Rebecca De Mornay[34] Laura Dern[35] Kim Dickens[36] Brenda Dickson[37] Matt Dillon[38] Caggie Dunlop[39] Cary Elwes[40] Jennifer Esposito[41] Chris Evans[42] Bridget Fonda[43] Jorja Fox[44] Benno Furmann[45] Teri Garr[46] Eric Gores[47] Carson Grant[48] Kathy Griffin[49] Sachin Gupta[50] Linda Hamilton[51] Liv Hansen[52] Jay Huguley[53] Michael Imperioli[54] Oliver Jackson-Cohen[55] Scarlett Johansson[56] Amy Jo Johnson[57] Angelina Jolie[58] Ranbir Kapoor[59] Janice Karman[60]

Carmen Kass[61] Lainie Kazan[62] Johnny Kemp[63] Brian Kerwin[64] Jiah Khan[65] Rahul Khanna[66] Callie Khouri[67] Prakash Kovelamudi[68] Lady Gaga (Stefani Germanotta)[69][70] Brandon Bruce Lee[71] John Leguizamo[72] Jennifer Jason Leigh[72] Chelsea Leyland[73] Sean Li[74] Traci Lords[75] Susan Loughnane[76] Amy Madigan[77] Jean-Baptiste Maunier[78] Danica McKellar[79] William McNamara[80] Siena Miller[81] Donna Murphy[82] Gianella Neyra[83] Valerie Niehaus[84] Kelli O'Hara[85] Jerry Orbach.[86] Linh Dan Pham[87]

Anne Pitoniak[88] Franka Potente[89] Tyrone Power, Jr.[90] Linda Purl[91] Yaniv Rokah[92] Roger Rose[93] Mickey Rourke [lower-alpha 1] Daniela Ruah[99] Theresa Russell[100] Davy Sardou[101] Tom Schilling[102] Michael Schoeffling[103] Omar Sharif, Jr Hilary Shepard[104] Lewis Smith[105] Renée Felice Smith[106] Bonnie Somerville[107] Sissy Spacek[108] Fabian Stumm[109] Miles Teller[110] Marlo Thomas[111] Gianfranco Terrin[112] Uma Thurman[38] Shenaz Treasurywala[113] Tom Villard[114] Christoph Waltz[115] Chandra Wilson[116] Marie Windsor[117] Michael Wright[118]

See also

• Actors Studio
• Group Theatre
• Stanislavski's system

References

Explanatory notes

1. Although he would attain life membership in the Actors Studio during Strasberg's reign,^[94] Rourke never officially attended the Institute; hence his absence from the Institute's online list of notable alumni.^[95] (Perhaps contributing as well was Rourke's well documented disdain for Strasberg.)^[96][97] Starting in the mid-1970s, however, he did audit the classes taught there and at CCNY by Sandra Seacat, with whom he was studying privately at the time.^[98]

Citations

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External links

• Official website
• Tsunoda, Wake. "Can You Imagine That? Teens Try Method Acting Exercises", The Milwaukee Journal Green Sheet (May 23, 1970), pp. 1–2