#)Actors Studio,is nothing but the American acting workshop.
#)This studio is located at 432 West 44th Street in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City
#)It is a membership organization for professional actors, theatre directors and playwrights
#)This studio has been the main source and inspiration for a naturalistic acting technique which is known in America as “the Method.”
#)This Studio is well known for its work refining and teaching method acting but this kind approach was originally developed by the Group Theatre in the 1930s and it is based on the innovations of Constantin Stanislavski
#)Under its artistic director, Lee Strasberg(who died in 1982), the Studio has adapted many of the techniques developed by Russian director Konstantin Stanislavsky for the training of actors, so that they could feel and realistically portray the emotions of their characters.
#)Lee Strasberg joined the studio later 1951and was there in the studio until his death on February 17, 1982
#)The picture of Lee Strasberg is shown below
#)The intense emotional realism achieved by workshop students—who have included Marlon Brando, James Dean, Geraldine Page, Rod Steiger, Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, and Jane Fonda—has influenced actors worldwide.
#)Actors Studio was founded in the year 1947 by producer Cheryl Crawford and directors Robert Lewis and Elia Kazan and Anna Sokolow who taught movement for actors.
#)Strasberg became artistic director in 1951 and continued in that role until his death in 1982. Lifetime membership in the Studio is by invitation and based on an audition.
#)In this studio actors work together so that they can develop their skills in a private environment, and where they can take risks as performers without the pressure of any commercial roles
#)The Actors Studion has only one official branch in the world and it is its west coast branch in West Hollywood, California opend in the year 1965.
#)It is also called as The Actors Studio West and it is run by co-artistic directors Mark Rydell and Martin Landau.
#)The Studio is also collaborated with The New School in the education of masters-level theater students at the Actors Studio Drama School (ASDS) and this is only a ten year contract from September 1994 to May 2005.
#)The Actors is Studio re-established in its three-year MFA program and it is called as The Actors Studio Drama School at Pace University from 2006.
#)The famous television program called "Inside the Actors Studio" first aired in the year 1994 on the cable television network called Bravo.
#)The host of the program includes James Lipton, Dean Emeritus of the Actors Studio Drama School.
#)It basically provides in-depth interviews with actors, directors, writers, and other artists.
#) This program is usually taped in front of the students of ASDS at Pace University, and it serves as a class seminar for those students.