“Red Light Winter” goes to Poland: Interview with Shannon Spangler

Shannon gives us the inside scoop on her experience during “Red Light Winter”.
“Red Light Winter” goes to Poland: Interview with Mike Turner

Mike Turner shares his experience working with Laura Savia, taking on “Red Light Winter”, and going to Poland.
Reasons to be Pretty

When Greg makes a seemingly harmless comment about his girlfriend Steph’s “regular” looking face, the information gets back to Steph and sends their relationship off the deep end.
LSTFI takes ‘Red Light Winter’ to Warsaw

The Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute® represents the United States at The International Theatre Schools Festival in Warsaw.
The Dark at the Top of the Stairs

In a small Oklahoma town we find Rubin, a traveling salesman for a harness firm, Cora, his sensitive and lovely wife, Sonny, their little boy and Reenie, their teenage daughter.
Middletown

As a friendship develops between longtime resident John Dodge and new arrival Mary Swanson, the lives of the inhabitants of Middletown intersect in strange and compelling ways.
Blue Window

Commitment is pictured as the blue window that skydivers see when they get ready to jump from a plane. Some people jump. Others hesitate, some to be pushed, some to never leave the plane.
2015 Clifford Odets Ensemble Play Commission Artists Announced

Crystal Skillman and Steve DiUbaldo receive The Clifford Odets Ensemble Play Commission for The Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute
Shaun Peknic and David Mendizabal receive The Lee Strasberg Directing Fellowship
Red Light Winter

Directed by Laura Savia, Red Light Winter will be traveling to Warsaw, Poland to represent the United States in the ITSelf Festival in Summer 2015.
Merrily We Roll Along

LSTFI and NYU Tisch at Strasberg present Stephen Sondheim’s Merrily We Roll Along!
The School Play

The School Play (2014)
By Frank Winters
As a winter storm approaches, nine high schoolers are summoned to a theater at midnight – but none of them know why.
Chicago

Big-shot Chicago laywer Billy Flynn takes on two new cases: Velma and Roxie. The two women – each accused of murdering her lover – fight for the spotlight as the media swarms their cases.
StrasbergTALKS: Estelle Parsons

On May 9, 2014, Estelle Parsons, Actor’s Studio Alum and longtime friend and student of Lee Strasberg, gave a StrasbergTalk about her experiences with Lee and using ‘The Method.’
The Place We Built

The Place We Built (2013)
By Sarah Gancher
A tale of friendship, idealism, and coming of age, set against the backdrop of Hungary’s terrifying slide into dictatorship — and the global rise of right-wing populism.
Measure for Measure

The plot follows Angelo, who has been empowered by the Duke of Vienna to rule, while he wanders disguised as a Friar to investigate the moral corruption and decay of his city.
The Music Man

When smooth-talking con man Harold Hill arrives in a small, tight-knit town in Iowa, he expects to dupe its residents with his elaborate money making scheme.
Ghosts

Helen Alving has built an orphanage in honor of her late husband. She soon reveals to the local pastor, however, that her marriage was secretly miserable and her husband unfaithful.
Love Lab

Love Lab (2012)
By Lila Feinberg
Three young couples embark on a retreat to the world-renowned lab of Dr. Stone – the leading expert on the science of love.
Twelfth Night

After twins Viola and Sebastian lose each after a shipwreck, Viola must disguise herself as a man in order to get a job and gain respect in the land of Illyria.
StrasbergTALKS: Karen Allen

Indiana Jones star and LSTFI alumna Karen Allen led an inspiring talk for our current students, sharing the ways in which Method Acting has shaped her work.
StrasbergTALKS: Jennifer Esposito

Jennifer Esposito has worked with the likes of Spike Lee and Paul Haggis, but her acting journey first began in class at LSTFI.