East Coast Curriculum
East Coast Curriculum (2017)
By Lucy Thurber
In this modern day riff on Arthur Schnitzer’s La Ronde set in an elite liberal arts college, twelve students’ lives intertwine as they discover the fear and ecstasy of finding yourself.
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!
Winter 2017 Conservatory Performance
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.
StrasbergTALKS: Vincent D’Onofrio
After teaching a week long masterclass, Vincent D’Onofrio gave a talk on February 10, 2017. He explains the way that he teaches his classes, disclaimers of his classes and created a conversational atmosphere with the audience. While going through his own process he demonstrates the process that he uses, directly taken from Strasberg Method.
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!
Unity (1918)
LSTFI presents Kevin Karr’s Unity (1918) directed by Kareem Fahmy.
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.
Love Letters to My Children
2016 StrasbergWORKS Selection
Tensions erupt in the Salvadi family, a tight-knit Italian Jewish clan, as they face the rise of Fascism in pre-World War II Milan.
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.
Ugly Little Sister
Ugly Little Sister (2016)
By Charlotte Miller
Wonder what would happen if the Kardashians were in a Greek tragedy? A group of sisters seek divine intervention in their human schemes and utter chaos ensues.
StrasbergTALKS: Eric Falkenstein
In an exclusive StrasbergTALK, Broadway producer Eric Falkenstein offered insights on the theatre industry and advice for aspiring actors looking for work.
The Wild Party
Lovers Queenie and Burrs decide to throw the party-to-end-all-parties in their Manhattan apartment. As the drama is reaching a climax, the gun is fired. But who’s been shot?
LSTFI Alumni Star in Chekhov’s Three Sisters
Brooklyn Repertory Theatre presents the third production of its inaugural season, Chekhov’s Three Sisters. In keeping with the company’s mission, […]
Pulp Vérité
Pulp Vérité (2015)
By Crystal Skillman
A team of filmmakers return to the States from Syria to finish a documentary. But what begins as a story about creating art to survive turns deeply personal as they attempt to bring their last crew member home.
Wayward
Wayward (2015)
By Steve DiUbaldo
At a nature camp for troubled teens, Wanda finds herself immersed in a world of conflicting truths battling for salvation.
Balm in Gilead
Set in Frank’s Cafe, a greasy diner in NYC, the play focuses on the relationship between Joe, a drug dealer indebted to a kingpin named Chuckles, and Darlene, a naive girl who has just moved to the city.
EMILIIE: La Marquise du Châtelet Defends Her Life Tonight
18th century scientific genius Emilie du Châtelet is back and determined to answer the question she died with: love or philosophy, head or heart?
Meet Steve DiUbaldo and David Mendizábal
We had a chance to sit down with Steve DiUbaldo and David Mendizábal, who have been awarded The Clifford Odets Ensemble Play Commission and The Lee Strasberg Directing Fellowship, respectively.
I Remember It Well
2015 StrasbergWORKS Selection
I Remember It Well tells the true story of famous French actor, singer, and entertainer, Maurice Chevalier.
“Red Light Winter” goes to Poland: Interview with Sean Borderes
Sean Borderes talks about “Red Light Winter”, the International Theatre Schools Festival, and Method Acting.