2018 Lee Strasberg Film Festival
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.
Fall 2017 Conservatory Performance
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
2017 StrasbergWORKS Selection
Two astronauts land on Mars and encounter God – only to have their entire belief system and way of life challenged.
Spring 2017 Conservatory Performance
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
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.
LSTFI Students Bring ‘Punk Rock’ to Life
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.