Biography lee stasberg

Lee Strasberg was best known as a founding member of the Group Theatre and as the main teacher of "Method" acting in the United States.

Biography lee stasberg

He was brought to Manhattan's Lower East Side at age seven. Strasberg's father was a garment worker and was active in a trade union which supported community theater. It was in this Yiddish Theatre that Strasberg was first exposed to the naturalistic style of acting.

While he was still a young boy he joined the amateur Progressive Dramatic Club, whose leaders were quite familiar with the theories of Constantine Stanislavsky, the great acting coach and director of the Moscow Art Theatre. After leaving Townsend Harris High School in to work as a clerk in a wig factory, he studied acting at the American Laboratory Theatre under Richard Boleslavsky and Maria Ouspenskaya, both former students of Stanislavsky.

He also gained his first experience as a director as a member of an amateur theatrical group that produced plays in the Christie Street Settlement House, a social center on the Lower East Side. Strasberg's professional career in the theater began when he joined the Theatre Guild as an actor and assistant stage manager in