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The Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre is an actor
Actor

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 training school in New York City
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, generally associated with the Meisner technique
Meisner technique

The Meisner Technique is an acting technique developed by the American theatre practitioner Sanford Meisner....
 of Sanford Meisner
Sanford Meisner

Sanford Meisner was an United States actor and acting coach who developed an acting methodology, now known as the Meisner technique....
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hborhood Playhouse had originally been founded as an off-Broadway
Off-Broadway

Off Broadway theater is an umbrella term for a defined set of Play , musical theater or revues performed in New York City. Originally referring to the location of a venue and its productions on a street intersecting Broadway in Manhattan's Theatre District, New York, the hub of the theater industry in the United States, the term later becam...
 theatre by philanthropists Alice Lewisohn
Alice Lewisohn

Alice Lewisohn was the founder of the Neighborhood Playhouse with her sister Irene Lewisohn. Alice was also an actress....
 and Irene Lewisohn
Irene Lewisohn

Irene Lewisohn was the founder of the Neighborhood Playhouse and the Museum of Costume Art....
 in 1915, but closed in 1927. The following year, it re-opened as the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre with the addition of Rita Wallach Morgenthau.






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The Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre is an actor
Actor

An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
 training school in New York City
New York City

The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
, generally associated with the Meisner technique
Meisner technique

The Meisner Technique is an acting technique developed by the American theatre practitioner Sanford Meisner....
 of Sanford Meisner
Sanford Meisner

Sanford Meisner was an United States actor and acting coach who developed an acting methodology, now known as the Meisner technique....
.

History

Neighborhood Playhouse had originally been founded as an off-Broadway
Off-Broadway

Off Broadway theater is an umbrella term for a defined set of Play , musical theater or revues performed in New York City. Originally referring to the location of a venue and its productions on a street intersecting Broadway in Manhattan's Theatre District, New York, the hub of the theater industry in the United States, the term later becam...
 theatre by philanthropists Alice Lewisohn
Alice Lewisohn

Alice Lewisohn was the founder of the Neighborhood Playhouse with her sister Irene Lewisohn. Alice was also an actress....
 and Irene Lewisohn
Irene Lewisohn

Irene Lewisohn was the founder of the Neighborhood Playhouse and the Museum of Costume Art....
 in 1915, but closed in 1927. The following year, it re-opened as the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre with the addition of Rita Wallach Morgenthau. Sanford Meisner joined the faculty in 1935 from the Group Theatre. Meisner used his study of Russian theatre and acting innovator, Konstantin Stanislavski's
Konstantin Stanislavski

Constantin Sergeyevich Stanislavski , was a Russian actor and theatre director. His innovative contribution to modern European and American realistic acting has remained at the core of mainstream Western culture performance training for much of the last century....
 System
Stanislavski System

Stanislavski's system is an approach to acting developed by Constantin Stanislavski, a Russian actor, Theatre director, and theatre administrator at the Moscow Art Theatre ....
 to develop his own technique, as an alternative to Lee Strasberg
Lee Strasberg

Lee Strasberg was an American actor, director, and one of the best-known acting teachers in American theater and film. He cofounded, with director Harold Clurman, the Group Theatre in 1931, which was "America?s first true theatrical collective"....
's Method acting
Method acting

Method acting is a technique in which actors aim to engender in themselves the thoughts and emotions of their characters in an effort to create a lifelike performance....
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The Executive Director of the Playhouse, Harold G. Baldridge, a graduate of the school himself, has been head of the school for 25 years.

The school offers a two-year certificate program, with admission to the second year dependent upon unanimous approval of the faculty. Additionally, shorter workshops for professional and youth actors are also available.

Neighborhood Playhouse also offers Playhouse Juniors, a popular Saturday training program for children in grades 1-12. Children attend a fixed curriculum of singing, acting and dancing classes in a non-competitive environment.

Playwright
Playwright

A playwright, also known as a dramatist, is a person who writes dramatic literature or drama. These works may be written specifically to be performed by actors or they may be closet dramas or literary works written using dramatic forms but not meant for performance....
 Horton Foote
Horton Foote

Albert Horton Foote, Jr. was an United States of America playwright and screenwriter, perhaps best known for his screenplay for the 1962 film To Kill a Mockingbird , for which he received an Academy Award....
 met actor Robert Duvall
Robert Duvall

Robert Selden Duvall is an United States film actor and Film director who has won an Academy Award, two Emmys, and four Golden Globes. He has appeared in films such as To Kill a Mockingbird , The Godfather, The Godfather Part II, Apocalypse Now, The Natural , Network , THX 1138, MASH , The Great Santini,...
 at Neighborhood Playhouse when he starred in a 1957 production of Foote's play, The Midnight Caller. Foote recommended Duvall to play the part of Boo Radley in the 1962 film, To Kill a Mockingbird
To Kill a Mockingbird (film)

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