Neighborhood Playhouse
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The Neighborhood Playhouse is an actor training school in New York City, generally associated with the Meisner technique of Sanford Meisner.
Neighborhood Playhouse had originally been founded as an off-Broadway theatre by philanthropists Alice and Irene Lewisohn in 1915, but closed in 1927. The following year, it re-opened as the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre with the addition of Rita Wallach Morgenthau. Meisner would join the faculty in 1935 from the Group Theatre. He used his study of Russian theatre and acting innovator, Konstantin Stanislavski's System to develop his own technique, as an alternative to Lee Strasberg's Method acting.
The Executive Director of the Playhouse, Harold G. Baldridge, a graduate of the school himself, has been head of the school for 25 years.
The school offers a two-year certificate program, with admission to the second year dependent upon unanimous approval of the faculty. Additionally, shorter workshops for professional and youth actors are also available.
[edit] Famous alumni
- Ashlie Atkinson
- Amanda Bearse
- Connie Britton
- James Caan
- Matthew Carnahan
- Dabney Coleman
- Patricia Donegan
- James Doohan
- Illeana Douglas
- Griffin Dunne
- Robert Duvall
- Jeff Goldblum
- Lee Grant
- Jennifer Grey
- Anne Jackson
- Allison Janney
- Diane Keaton
- Grace Kelly
- Christopher Lloyd
- Ernest A. Losso
- David Mamet
- Dylan McDermott
- Darren McGavin
- Steve McQueen
- Leslie Nielsen
- Chris Paine
- Gregory Peck
- Sydney Pollack
- Tony Randall
- Mark Rydell
- José Angel Santana [1]
- Sherie Rene Scott
- Marian Seldes
- Mary Steenburgen
- Eli Wallach
- Al Waxman
- Elizabeth Wilson
- Joanne Woodward
- Otis Young
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