![]() ![]() ![]() It was in Stella Adler’s class on the upper West Side of Manhattan that I first met Peter Bogdanovich who died in January this year at 82 and had also been a student of Stella. I began writing and directing my plays for the Caffe Cino on Cornelia Street like Moon and The Bed and Why Tuesday Never Has a Blue Monday for Ellen Stewart’s La Mama Theatre in the East Village. I hung out with the counter culture bohemia led by Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac and other ‘official’ members of what was called the ‘Beat Generation.’ I was also a friend of Andy Warhol and worked on movies with him at the Factory uptown. ![]() It was the summer of 1956 and I was excited to meet celebrated actors there like Katherine Hepburn and Fritz Weaver whom I also got to know later in New York City where I came to live (and still do) in Greenwich Village. After two years of intense study the great teacher who had also studied with Stanislavski himself, helped enroll me as an apprentice/actor at the American Shakespeare Festival and Academy in Stratford, Connecticut. When I first met Stella she looked at me and said, “To be so young and in so much pain must be a terrible thing.” At the time I did not know or understand what she was talking about but Stella took me under her wing. Shaw play wherein I was able to articulate “what price salvation now Snobby Price?”, and hanging out on weekends in gay bars on Chicago’s legendary near north side, I followed my obsession with theater by coming back East to study with the famous and brilliant Group Theater actress and teacher Stella Adler. Later, after acting in plays there including Tea and Sympathy where a mature woman attempts to save a student from his homosexual guilt and drudgery, Romeo and Juliet and a G. Photo by John Gilman.Īfter graduating from Irvington High School in New Jersey I attended a boy’s prep-school in West Orange to make up some points in order to go to Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, where I went to the School of Speech, enrolling there in the theater department run by Alvina Krause who had studied the method with the great master Constantine Stanislavski. Actress Stella Adler taught acting at the prestigious Stella Adler Studio of Acting in New York and LA. ![]()
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