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Eventually, she returned to New York to act, direct, and teach, the latter first at Erwin Piscator's Dramatic Workshop at the New School for Social Research, New York City, [12] before founding Stella Adler Conservatory of Theatre in 1949.
In the early 1940s, Stella began to teach at the Erwin Piscator Workshop at the New School for Social Research. She left the faculty in 1949 to establish her own studio called the Stella Adler Theatre Studio (later renamed the Stella Adler Conservatory of Acting and finally the Stella Adler Studio of Acting).
- Stella Adler was a born actress. Stella Adler was born to act. Literally. It was hard for her not to be. She came from a famous family of performers, the Jewish American Adler acting family dynasty, including her parents Sara and Jacob P. Adler and all her siblings.
- Konstantin Stanislavski was her greatest influence. Though Adler had been an established actress for most of her young life, into her 20’s, she was not prepared for the performances she witnessed when Konstantin Stanislavski brought the Moscow Art Theatre on tour in the United States in 1922.
- Stella was one of the original founders of Group Theatre. While studying at the American Laboratory Theatre, Adler also met other hungry young actors, including Sanford Meisner, Lee Strasberg, Harold Clurman and Cheryl Crawford.
- Stanislavski altered the course of her career. Over time, Stella Adler grew weary of the use of Affective Memory. She believed it limited an actor’s performance to rely solely on their own personal experiences.
In the early 1940s Adler began teaching acting at the New School for Social Research in New York City. She remained there until 1949, when she established the Stella Adler Theater Studio (later renamed the Stella Adler Conservatory of Acting).
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
From 1939 to 1942 Stella taught at Erwin Piscator’s Dramatic Workshop at the New School; her classes evolved into the Stella Adler Acting Studio, which she opened in New York in 1949. She continued to act onstage for some years, but her desire to teach gradually replaced her need to perform.
Concurrent with her work as an actor and director, Stella Adler began to teach in the early 1940s at the Erwin Piscator Workshop at the New School for Social Research in New York. She left the faculty in 1949 to establish her own studio in New York in the same year.
Stella Adler attended New York University and later, in 1925, studied at the American Laboratory Theater with Maria Ouspenskaya and Richard Boleslavsky, both of whom had come to the United Stages after distinguished careers in Europe.
