CONSERVATORY PERFORMANCE SPRING 2018

After 2 years of study, students of the conservatory program present their final showcase at LSTFI.
MILLENNIAL PINK FALCON

A think tank in a distant but also not so distant future is tasked with the job of finding the best possible way to explain to humankind that there are humanoids in their midst.
HARPER REGAN

Harper Regan – who suddenly walks away from her husband, her daughter and her job to go and see her dying father – finds herself on a journey of disconnection and realism.
STRASBERG FILM FESTIVAL 2018: YOUNG ACTORS EDITION

LSTFI is proud to present the first annual Strasberg Film Festival: Young Actors Edition!
STRASBERG FILM FESTIVAL 2018

Read more about the lineup for the first annual Lee Strasberg Film Festival! Save the date: March 16, 2018.
PARADE

In 1913, Leo Frank, a Brooklyn-raised Jew living in Georgia, is put on trial for the murder of thirteen-year-old Mary Phagan, a factory worker under his employment.
CONSERVATORY PERFORMANCE FALL 2017

The Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute 2-Year Conservatory students present their final showcase.
TWELVE ANGRY MEN

A 19-year-old man has just stood trial for the fatal stabbing of his father. It looks like an open-and-shut case—until one of the jurors opens up the facts.
THE TIME OF YOUR LIFE

Presented by the NYU Tisch at Strasberg advanced training students, The Time of Your Life follows Joe and the regulars of the local bar. Joe is wealthy and doesn’t need to work, so he spends his days holding court in Nick’s Pacific Street Saloon.
AJAX IN IRAQ

Past and present collide in Ellen McLaughlin’s mash-up of Sophocles’ classic tragedy Ajax with the modern-day war in Iraq.
GOD OF MARZ

Two astronauts who land on Mars and encounter God, only to have their belief system and way of life challenged. Also, God is not quite who they pictured she’d be. In fact, she’s a Jewish auntie who’s into kink.
CONSERVATORY PERFORMANCE SPRING 2017

The Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute 2-Year Conservatory students present their final showcase.
The Motherf**ker with the Hat

Jackie, a former drug dealer, has just been released from prison and is living with his high school sweetheart, Veronica. As his relationships to those he loved and trusted most dissolve before his eyes, Jackie has to decide whether he is truly ready to give up his vices in order to move into a brighter future.
StrasbergTALKS: Sally Field

On May 5, 2017 Sally Field gave a talk at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute. After working and training with Lee Strasberg, The Method has been instrumental to her life and career.
EAST COAST CURRICULUM

A modern day riff on Arthur Schnitzer’s LA Ronde with liberal arts college as the theme, EAST COAST CURRICULUM is an original piece written for the Clifford Odets Play Commission.
Radium Girls

Radium is a miracle cure, Madame Curie an international celebrity, and luminous watches the latest rage. Until the girl who paint the watch dials begin to die.
Woyzeck

Loosely based on the real figure of Johann Christian Woyzeck, Georg Buchner’s Woyzeck is a naturalist indictment of the dehumanizing effects of the military and science on unsuspecting victims.
2017 CLIFFORD ODETS ENSEMBLE PLAY COMMISSION ARTISTS ANNOUNCED

Lucy Thurber receives The Clifford Odets Ensemble Play Commission and Jenna Worsham receives the Lee Strasberg Directing Fellowship!
CONSERVATORY PERFORMANCE WINTER 2017

Presented by The Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute – New York
Directed by: Ted Zurkowski
March 27, 2017. The Irma Sandrey Theatre
FOOL FOR LOVE

Directed by Shaun Peknic, Fool for Love was selected to participate in the 9th annual ITSelF Festival in Warsaw, Poland. Set in a desolate motel room on the edge of the Mojave Desert, the play displays an alternately tender and violent love-hate relationship.
URINETOWN: The Musical

In the not-so-distant future, a terrible water shortage and 20-year drought has led to a government ban on private toilets and a proliferation of paid public toilets, owned and operated by a single megalomaniac company: the Urine Good Company.
Punk Rock

Punk Rock, directed by Isabella Uzcátegui, is coming soon to The Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute. Read all about the director and the show here!
A FLEA IN HER EAR

Raymonde Chandebise is worried that her husband, Victor Emmanuel, is being unfaithful so she devises a plot to test him. Chaos ensues when all the characters meet at a promiscuous hotel.
OUR LADY OF 121ST STREET

After the death of the beloved Sister Rose, a group of her former students return to their Harlem neighborhood to pay respects. But at the funeral home, there’s a problem: her dead body has been stolen.