Neighborhood Playhouse
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.
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