Producer and director before returning to New York in 1946. Theatre, with its ensemble approach and emotional and realistic productions thatĮxpressed political and social views about contemporary issues, permanently alteredĪmerican theater’s previous emphasis on pure entertainment.įollowing the dissolution of the Group Theatre, Clurman worked in Hollywood as a film Theatre in 1931 and served as its director until it dissolved in 1941. Together with Lee Strasberg and Cheryl Crawford, he formed the The Moscow Art Theatre, Clurman worked to create a permanent acting company in Having seen Stanislavsky’s ensemble approach with Though he had no formal training, became involved in theater, beginning as an Upon returning to New York in 1924, Clurman, Clurman became attracted to the theater at age six, when heĪttended a production starring Jacob Adler. Harold Clurman (1901-1980), a central figure in twentiethĬentury American theater, was a director, producer, drama critic, and co-founder Stella Adler died of heartįailure in Los Angeles, California, on December 22, 1992. Adler and Eleaschreff had one daughter, Ellen. To Horace Eleaschreff and was later married to Mitchell Wilson until his deathġ973. Prominent actors of the twentieth century among her students.Īdler was married to Harold Clurman from 1943 until 1960. Adler continued to teach acting for more than forty years and counted Stella Adler Conservatory, still in existence today as the Stella Adler StudioĪcting.
In 1949 she founded the Stella Adler Theater Studio, later the She began her teaching career at the New School for Social Research Moved to Hollywood and acted in films for six years before returning to New YorkĪct and direct. In 1934 Adler briefly visited Europe, where she met and studied with the actor andĭirector Konstantin Stanislavsky of the Moscow Art Theatre. Theatre of Russian actor and teacher Richard Boleslavsky in the mid-1920s andġ931 became part of the Group Theatre through Harold Clurman, whom she married Theater with her parents, Jacob and Sara Adler. As a child, she began acting in the New York Yiddish Stella Adler (1902-1992), founder of the Stella AdlerĬonservatory of Acting, is best known as a teacher of the principles of actingĬharacter and script analysis. Adler’s teaching material makes up a large Schedules, clippings, proofs, photographs, slides, negatives, correspondence,Īnd financial papers, datebooks, certificates, brochures, and theater programs, Handwritten manuscripts, notes, lecture transcripts, annotated texts of plays, The Stella Adler and Harold Clurman papers consist of typescript and Producer, drama critic, and co-founder of the Group Theatre, were married fromġ943-1960. The Stella Adler Conservatory of Acting, and Harold Clurman (1901-1980), director, Stella Adler and Harold Clurman: An Inventory of their Papers in the Performing Arts Collection at theĥ6 document boxes, 5 oversize boxes, 1 oversize folder (26.5 linear feet)