The Stella Adler Studio of Acting, like most schools, has a gap between the cost of tuition and the cost of the conservatory programs? Tuition pays for the cost of each program including space, teacher salaries and utilities. Though Stella died in in 1991 her voice continues through our work! Here’s to another 70! I think you will see through this annual report that her values and spirit are alive and thriving - both in the programs that the studio provides to aspiring professionals and to the greater community. “Oh humanity” she seemed to be saying in every class, “wake up to your depth! You possess gifts, potentials, power beyond the superficial glimmer of fame and fortune.” This aspect of Stella’s contribution is indeed relevant, perhaps more now than ever before. She provided the world with a Cassandra-cry, a warning, a plea, a prayer. In our world gone mad with images, commercialism, publicity, superficiality, Stella cried out for depth, truth, meaning. In them I encounter another aspect of her relevance. I’ve also been watching vintage videos of Stella teaching. For example, though Stella was decidedly committed to the stage as the primary medium of the actor, her protégée Ron Burrus has made her foundational approach the best technique for film acting. Furthermore, it’s clear to me that Stella’s work is not only beautifully represented by faculty members Ron Burrus, Antonio Merenda, Maureen Megibow, Patrick Quagliano and Betsy Parrish but through them her work is evolving, her techniques are pliant, her approaches applicable. I find myself delighted and exhilarated to say that all three of the branches of Stella’s technique foundation, character class and script interpretation - are not only alive but flowering. Is this work still relevant? Is it as necessary in our time as it was in Stella’s? These are some of the questions that cross my mind.

As we approach these milestones, I’ve been studying the various approaches to acting that Stella innovated in her long, creative life.

We are also moving to a new home at 65 Broadway. In 2019 the Stella Adler Studio of Acting celebrates 70 years as a cultural institution in New York City.

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