Westlake Acting Studio

In 1931, a group of young actors joined together to establish The Group Theatre after seeing the work of Konstantin Stanislavsky. Where early American theater favored a representational style of acting, the Russian theater was grounded in an internal and truthful approach and this group decided they would build a theater that would do the honest life-depicting story telling that he was doing, and in doing so they reshaped American theater. Mr. Sanford Meisner was a founding member of the Group Theater along with a who's who ; Lee Strasberg, Sella Adler, Cheryl Crawford, Elia Kazan, Clifford Odets, Harold Clurman and many others.

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