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|headquarters = New York City, U.S.|type = Drama school, conservatory }}The Stella Adler Studio of ActingAdler Gets Posthumous Hollywood Walk Star Fox News, Friday, August 4, 2006. (formerly Stella Adler Conservatory) is a prestigious acting school that was founded by actress and teacher Stella Adler.Stella Adler Conservatory – History and Philosophy Tisch School of the Arts, NYU.A New Act Unfolds in Drama Dynasty New York Times, April 9, 2008. The Stella Adler Studio of Acting has two locations: its original New York City conservatory, founded in 1949, and the Art of Acting Studio in Los Angeles.WEB,www.stellaadler.com/2011/03/07/visit-our-los-angeles-campus-the-art-of-acting-studio/, Visit our Los Angeles campus, the Art of Acting Studio! | Stella Adler Studio of Acting, March 7, 2011, www.stellaadler.com, The Stella Adler Studio of Acting in New York is not affiliated with the Stella Adler Academy & Theatre, which Adler established in Los Angeles in 1985.WEB,articles.latimes.com/2009/jun/29/entertainment/et-stella-adler29, Los Angeles Times, A Stella Adler turf war in L.A., Ng, David, June 29, 2009, April 7, 2017, The Stella Adler Studio and the Juilliard School currently boast the lowest program acceptance rates in the professional acting world. The studio only accepts 28 students a semester into its professional conservatory program.WEB,www.backstage.com/resources/detail/actingschool/stella-adler-studio-of-acting-85773/, Stella Adler Studio of Acting, backstage.com,

History

Background and approach

Concurrent with her work as an actor and director, Stella Adler began to teach in the early 1940s at the Erwin Piscator Workshop at the New School for Social Research in New York. She left the faculty in 1949 to establish her own studio in New York in the same year.Stella Adler Conservatory of Acting Britannica.com.Combining what she had learned from the Yiddish theatre, the Group Theatre, Broadway, Hollywood, and Constantin Stanislavski, Stella created the Stella Adler Theatre Studio, later renamed the Stella Adler Conservatory of Acting and more recently the Stella Adler Studio of Acting, where she taught acting for many decades,Stella Adler, 91, an Actress And Teacher of the Method New York Times, December 22, 1992. and in 1985, she opened the Stella Adler Academy and Theatre in Los Angeles.Adler Stella Notable American Women: A Biographical Dictionary Completing the Twentieth Century, by Susan Ware, Stacy Lorraine Braukman, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Harvard University Press, 2004. {{ISBN|0-674-01488-X}}. Page 9-10The studio offered courses in principles of acting, voice and speech, Shakespeare, movement, and makeup, as well as workshops in play analysis, character, scene preparation, and acting styles. Onstage experience was acquired by performances of scenes and plays before an invited audience. Among her early students were Marlon Brando, Robert De Niro, Warren Beatty, Elaine Stritch, Mario Van Peebles, Harvey Keitel, and Candice Bergen.Adler’s grandson Tom Oppenheim, who runs the Stella Adler Studio of Acting in New York and the Art of Acting Studio in Los Angeles, summarizes her approach to acting as such: “Growth as an actor and growth as a human being are synonymous.”

Establishment in New York

File:Stella Adler in Shadow of The Thin Man trailer.jpg|right|140px|thumb|Stella AdlerStella Adler The Stella Adler Studio of Acting, in New York City, was founded in 1949 by Adler. In 1969, it became the first professional training school to become affiliated with New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. The studio became a 501(c)3 not-for-profit organization in 2000. The mission of the Stella Adler Studio of Acting is to create an environment with the purpose of nurturing theatre artists who value humanity, their own and others, as their first and most precious priority while providing art and education to the greater community.The Stella Adler Studio of Acting official West Coast branch is the Art of Acting Studio Los Angeles, named after Stella Adler’s most famous book. The Stella Adler Studio of Acting is not affiliated with the Stella Adler Academy in Los Angeles.

Los Angeles studio

Adler’s long history with Hollywood meant she had close ties and strong connections in the Los Angeles area. She taught for many years at various locations in Los Angeles, and eventually, with her longtime friend and protégé Joanne Linville, opened the doors to the Stella Adler Conservatory of Acting at the corner of Hollywood Boulevard and Argyle. Some of the notable people who have passed through the Hollywood conservatory include Nick Nolte, Salma Hayek, Eric Stoltz, Deidre Hall, Sean Astin, John Charles Jopson, John Ritter, Herschel Savage, Cybill Shepherd, Michael Richards, Benicio del Toro, and Mark Ruffalo.Protégés Joanne Linville and Irene Gilbert persuaded Stella Adler to open the academy in 1985 in Los Angeles.NEWS, Actress Irene Gilbert ran LA acting academy,www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2011/05/31/state/n075254D68.DTL, Associated Press, San Francisco Chronicle, May 31, 2011, 2011-06-02, Together, Gilbert and Linville are considered the school’s cofounders, with Adler granting them permission to use her name.NEWS, Valerie J., Nelson, Irene Gilbert dies at 76; cofounder of Stella Adler’s Los Angeles acting academy,articles.latimes.com/2011/may/28/local/la-me-irene-gilbert-20110528, Los Angeles Times, May 28, 2011, 2011-06-03, Gilbert remained the director of the school for 20 years.The original school was located in a small theater at Hollywood Boulevard and Argyle Avenue. A fire forced the temporary closure of the school in 1991. The building was threatened with demolition to make way for a proposed subway line at the time of Adler’s death in 1992. In 1994, Irene Gilbert reopened the school’s present location at 6773 Hollywood Boulevard and Highland Avenue. It was renamed the Stella Adler Academy of Acting, and celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2010. The historic location housed the famous Embassy Club in the 1930s.The school is an acting studio offering extensive training for actors in theatre, film, and television. The facility houses the not-for-profit Stella Adler Theatre, the Irene Gilbert Theatre, The Studio C Theatre, classrooms, dance studio, music studio, library, dressing rooms, video and equipment room, scene shop, and administrative offices, all dedicated to teaching Stella’s technique.Linville continues to teach at the academy as the lead instructor for the last 25 years. Irene Gilbert died in 2011.In 2010, alumni of the school formed the Stella Adler Los Angeles Theatre Collective.WEB,www.broadwayworld.com/los-angeles/article/Stella-Adler-Los-Angeles-Theatre-Collective-Announces-Inaugural-Season-20100226, Stella Adler Los Angeles Theatre Collective Announces Inaugural Season, Gabrielle, Sierra, BroadwayWorld.com,

Notable alumni

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• Sean AstinWEB,www.uidaho.edu/events/university-convocation/convocation-in-review/sean-astin, University of Idaho, 2014 - Sean Astin, April 6, 2017,
• Warren Beatty
• Byrdie Bell
• Candice Bergen
• Peter Bogdanovich
• Marlon BrandoWEB,tisch.nyu.edu/drama/about/studios/stella-adler/Alumni, New York University, Adler Studio Alumni, December 28, 2016,
• Alden Ehrenreich
• Mark RuffaloEPISODE, Mark Ruffalo,www.imdb.com/title/tt1013112/, Inside the Actors Studio, Inside the Actors Studio, Bravo!, March 19, 2007, 13, 6,
• James Coburn
• Clifton Collins, Jr.
• Calico CooperWEB, 2020-10-08, Meet Calico Cooper of Beasto Blanco in North Hollywood - Voyage LA Magazine {{!, LA City Guide |url=https://voyagela.com/interview/meet-calico-cooper-beasto-blanco-north-hollywood/ |access-date=2023-09-22 |website=Voyage LA |language=en-US}}
• Bud Cort
• Robert De Niro
• Benicio del Toro
• Leah Dizon
• Lilly Englert
• Maya Eshet
• Wayne FedermanWEB,www.stellaadler.com/alumni/, Stella Adler Studio of Acting, Alumni, April 6, 2017,
• Nina Foch
• Teri Garr
• Valeria Gastaldi
• Pamela Gidley
• Alexander GodunovWEB,tcmdb.com/participant/participant.jsp?participantId=72646, TCM Movie Database, Overview for Alexander Godunov,
• Melanie GriffithWEB,www.nytimes.com/1988/04/17/movies/that-s-melanie-griffith-everywhere.html?pagewanted=all, New York Times, That’s Melanie Griffith Everywhere, April 17, 1988, Forsberg, Myra,
• Christopher Guest
• Jean Hale
• Dennis W. Hall
• Salma HayekWEB,articles.latimes.com/2011/may/28/local/la-me-irene-gilbert-20110528, Los Angeles Times, Irene Gilbert dies at 76; cofounder of Stella Adler’s Los Angeles acting academy, May 28, 2011, December 27, 2016, Nelson, Valerie J.,
• Jessica Hecht
• Bryce Dallas Howard
• John Charles Jopson
• Ruman Kazi
• Harvey Keitel
• Sally KellermanWEB,www.stellaadler.com/alumni/, Stella Adler Studio of Acting, Alumni, April 6, 2017,
• Perry King
• Bianca Lawson
• Cloris Leachman
• Natasha LeggeroWEB,www.cosmopolitan.com/entertainment/celebs/a44633/natasha-leggero/, Cosmopolitan, 4 Things You Never Knew About Natasha Leggero, September 4, 2015, April 7, 2017,
• Jane Levy
• Karl Malden
• Thuso Mbedu
• Rafael Morais
• Sergej MoyaNEWS, Goltz, Tobias, Sergej Moya im Interview: “Ich lebe in meinem Kopf in einer Welt von Märchen und Geschichten.”,www.planet-interview.de/interviews/sergej-moya/34213/, 6 March 2019, Planet Interview, 24 September 2006, de-DE,
• Donna MurphyWEB,www.stellaadler.com/alumni/, Stella Adler Studio of Acting, Alumni, April 6, 2017,
• Kate Mulgrew
• Adam Nagaitis
• Judd Nelson
• Nick Nolte
• Bill Paxton
• Sydney Tamiia PoitierJOURNAL, Sydney Tamiia Poitier Tackles Racy Sports World and Rocky Love Life As Star of New TV Show ‘Abby’, Jet, January 27, 2003, Johnson Publishing Company, 103, 5, 60, 0021-5996,books.google.com/books?id=Fr4DAAAAMBAJ&q=Sydney+Tamiia+Poitier+Joanna+Shimkus&pg=PA58,
• Sydney Pollack
• Anthony Quinn
• Eva Marie Saint
• John Saxon
• Herschel Savage
• Martin Sheen
• Cybill Shepherd
• Maya Shoef
• Darrell M. Smith
• Elaine Stritch
• Holland TaylorWEB,www.stellaadler.la/holland-taylor/, Stella Adler Los Angeles, Holland Taylor, Alumni, September 15, 2015, March 30, 2017,
• Christopher ThorntonWEB,www.imdb.com/name/nm0861502/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t8, Christopher Thornton at IMDB, IMDB.com, May 4, 2021,
• Nitya VidyasagarNEWS,thewire.in/film/a-passage-to-hollywood-indian-actors-are-storming-the-us-entertainment-industry, A Passage to Hollywood: How Indian Actors are Storming the US Entertainment Industry, The Wire, 16 July 2016, Choudhury, Uttara,
• Henry WinklerWEB,www.stellaadler.la/henry-winkler/, Stella Adler Los Angeles, Henry Winkler, Alumni, September 15, 2015, March 30, 2017,

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See also

• Stella Adler
• Actors Studio

References

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External links

• Stella Adler Studio of Acting, New York City, Official website
• Art of Acting Studio, Los Angeles, Official Website
• Stella Adler Academy of Acting, LA, Official website

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