Alumni
Alvin Ailey
Diane Baker
Warren Beatty
Candice Bergen
Peter Bogdanovich
Marlon Brando
Susan Clark
James Coburn
Bud Cort
Kevin Costner
Robert Davi
Robert De Niro
James De Paiva
Benicio Del Toro
Phyllis Diller
George Dzundza
Robert Evans
Tovah Feldshuh
Rhonda Fleming
Nina Foch
Tony Franciosa
Teri Garr
Melanie Griffith
Christopher Guest
Nicholas Guest
Shelley Hack
Jean Hale
Linda Hope
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Salma Hayek
Bryce Dallas Howard
Ken Howard
Kathleen Hughes
Lauren Hutton
Janis Ian
Salome Jens
Lucetta Kallis
Harvey Keitel
Sally Kellerman
Perry King
John Philip Law
Jerome Lawrence
Cloris Leachman
Joanne Linville
Anthony LoBianco
Robert Loggia
Nancy Malone
Karl Malden
Jayne Meadows
Larry Miller
Matthew Modine
Kate Mulgrew
Donna Murphy
Ken Olin
Elizabeth Parrish
Sidney Pollock
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Judd Nelson
Anthony Quinn
Charlotte Rae
John Randolph
Judge Reinhold
John Ritter
Jerome Robbins
Diana Ross
Misty Rowe
Mark Ruffalo
Eva Marie Saint
John Saxon
Daniel Selznick
Martin Sheen
Cybill Shepard
Talia Shire
Cotter Smith
Jessica St. John
Robert Sterling
Connie Stevens
Elaine Stritch
Holland Taylor
Leigh Taylor-Young
Pamela Tiffin
Leslie Uggams
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Mark Ruffalo
"I never heard anyone talk about anything with that kind of respect and passion and belief, to hear Stella talking about acting as the great art form. She used to say, 'You're an actor. You're American aristocracy. You have a responsibility to lift yourself to this material and make yourself better.' It was amazing as a young man to hear that."
Recent Alumni Working in the Industry
Sarah Utterback
SAS class of 2004; Television/Film: Grey's Anatomy (recurring), My First Time Driving, Medium, Family Guy, Cold Case, Ghost Whisperer; Theater: Il Bidone, Ladybird, BASH, Skunkweed, Taken in Marriage, North of Providence (current), Surfer-Girl: World Premiere (current); Founding Member of Rushforth Productions and IAMA Theatre Co.
"I am very grateful the Adler Studio was my foundation, and I continually look back at the journal entries I had from that time. What has stayed with me? I think Adler taught me to stay interested. That no matter what, we have to be interested in life around us. We were encouraged to look to all the arts, to love poetry and dance and music, and allow them to inform our work. Imagination is crucial in film and television. Unlike theater, there are these big gaping holes in tv scripts which are begging for you to build a past and justify very quickly. Adler gave me the tools of knowing how to ask questions about my character, no matter how big or small, and make specific choices. I know this has impacted my work, simply by seeing how my character on "Grey's" began as a two-episode gig. The writers were able to continue to include a storyline for me, somehow, based off of a couple initial scenes."
Shannon Sutherland
SAS class of 2004; NY: Stand-up at Caroline's on Broadway, The Comic Strip Live!, Gotham Comedy Club, Stand-Up NY, The NY Improv, The Laugh Factory; TV: "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart."
"The Stella Adler Studio gave me the acting tools and taught me the discipline needed to be successful in the competitive world of entertainment. But more importantly, it gave me a home away from home and a family of fellow artists that made me feel safe so that I could take the risks necessary to reach my full potential. I grew up at Stella Adler and now that I've graduated I love that I have a place I can return to and be reminded of the fever that hits a person when they decide to devote their life to the theatre."
Nathan Bock
SAS class of 2005; NY: 24 Hours of Darkness at Theatre of Mass Destruction, Happy Hour at the Michael Chekhov Theatre, A Parsifal, and Beer for Breakfast, and Someone Who'll Watch Over Me.
"My experience at Stella Adler Studio was one of compassion and acceptance. From the moment we began classes, I felt that the teachers cared deeply for us all and wanted us to be the best we could be. There was no mold we had to fit to become an Actor; we had to become ourselves, and along the way we would find our acting talent being honed to a craft. Adler became my family for four years, and although I don't roam the halls as I used to, I still feel at home there, and the friendships I made there comprise much of my social group today as well as those with whom I want to collaborate artistically. Adler's greatest credit is in their commitment to creating human beings with strong and courageous souls to put behind the techniques that they teach, and I cannot thank Tom and the staff enough for the time I spent with them."
Drew Sobey
Off-Broadway: Blue Man Group
"I want to thank every single teacher at Adler for the discipline and the techniques and the valuable life lessons that (they) filled me with in my three years there, as they helped me walk into that audition room with confidence and skills and imagination enough to land me a pretty nice gig for a 22 year-old."
Amalie Larsen
SAS class of 1998; National and International tours include 1776, Titanic, The Who's Tommy, and Footloose.
"My favorite thing about Adler was simply the experience of getting up every morning and learning about acting. I was so happy just being there, and drinking in all that the extraordinary teachers gave me. Adler gave me a great creative foundation and work ethic that I know helps me book jobs today."
Casey Wilson
class of 2003,Newest Cast Member of Saturday Night Live; Film: The Great Buck Howard (Sundance 2008), Christopher Guest's For Your Consideration, The Brothers Solomon; Writer/Performer (with June Raphael): Rode Hard and Put Away Wet at Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre (NYC and LA); Writer (with June Raphael): Bride Wars, upcoming film starring Kate Hudson and Anne Hathaway
"The Stella Adler Studio has always been a home away from home for me. I remember the first day of Studio so clearly, the way you remember meeting your first love. And that was what the experience of studying at Stella Adler was like, falling in love. I trained at Adler for four years and just couldn't see how another studio could combine the rigorous training, devoted faculty, scope of vision, and warm community that made Adler so special."
June Raphael
SAS class of 2003; Film: The Year One (upcoming), Step Brothers (upcoming), Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Zodiac, Shut Up and Sing; Television: Flight of the Conchords, The Very Funny Show, Derek and Simon: The Show, Human Giant; Writer (with Casey Wilson): Bride Wars, an upcoming New Regency film starring Kate Hudson and Anne Hathaway; Writer/ Performer (with Casey Wilson): Rode Hard and Put Away Wet at Upright Citizens Brigade in NYC and LA
ANDREW LARIMER: Founder/ Artistic Director of The NOLA Project, a theatre company in New Orleans: The Cripple of Inishmaan, The Misanthrope, Cloud Nine, The Wind in the Willows, Lakeviews, The Lieutenant of Inishmore. Writer/Director of Get This Lake Off My House: Our Tempest; Writer for The Beignet Plays, a collection of short pieces by local playwrights.
Duane Allen
SAS class of 2005;Off-Broadway: Classical Theatre of Harlem; Regional: King Lear at the Folger Theatre
Craig Lee Thomas
Regional: Utah Shakespearean Festival: John in The Merry Wives of Windsor; Soldier in Antony and Cleopatra; Marine Guard in H.M.S. Pinafore
Jamie Jansen
Regional: The Cleveland Shakespeare Festival (Ensemble; Young Siward)
Adelia Saunders
SAS class of 2005; NY: Karen in The Harbor Theatre's Shortly After Takeoff
Robbie Sublett
SAS class of 2006, Off-Broadway: Gone Missing at the Barrow Street Theater; Theater: Performer/Collaborator on Mabou Mines' Song for New York and FINN (upcoming), Writer/Performer of one-man play Calacas; Animation: Voices on Speed Racer: The Next Generation, title voice of Casper's Scare School; Film: Wherever You Are (upcoming), Hachiko: A Dog's Story (upcoming) with Richard Gere and Joan Allen; Recipient of the J.S. Seidman Award for the Most Outstanding Graduating Artist and Scholar of the NYU class of 2006.
DANIEL HALDEN: Theater: The Importance of Being Earnest; Film: It's a Wonderful Death!, In Bed (Red Elevator short), webseries Ryder's Reel; Founder and Executive Director of Red Elevator Productions, a non-profit multimedia production company
DANIEL MARMION: Theater: Stones in His Pockets and Fallen Angels at Winnipesaukee Playhouse, Julius Caesar and Catch-22 with Aquila Theatre Company
KATIE JERGENS: Theater/Improv: Cast member of National Comedy Theater, Sunday Night Improv at 78th St. Theater Lab; Film/TV: David Shane (upcoming), featured in New York Comedy Festival 2007 (WABC-TV/ NY)
MELISSA JOHNSON: Founding member of Wide Eyed Productions: Medea, Much Ado About Nothing; Theater: Murder Me Always, interactive murder mystery at the Laugh Factory; Film: Internet episodic Points
ALEXANDER FISKE-HARRISON: Film: Essayette, The Seer; Theater: The Second Maiden's Tragedy, Land of Opportunity, The Future (all in London), Alone Together (English Theatre of Hamburg), The Pendulum (upcoming on London's West End)
ALEXANDRA LYDON: Writer/Actor: Worst Laid Plans at Upright Citizens Brigade in NYC and LA; Film: Nail Polish, Bodies; Television: CSI: Miami, Prison Break, 24, Desperate Housewives, CSI, Without a Trace, Enterprise, Ed, Hack, NCIS, K-Ville, Eli Stone, The Oaks (upcoming)
CELESTE MORATTI: Theater: Crazy Sound, Days of Antonio (both at LaMama), The Theory of Color; Film: My Mother's Fairy Tales
JONATHAN RUNYON: Theater: Three Sisters, Angels in America, This is Our Youth, Little Shop of Horrors, Hamlet, And Tell Sad Stories of the Deaths of Queens; Television: 7th Heaven, The West Wing, Criminal Minds, The Game
AMANDA SAYLE: Theater: Hell House with Les Freres Corbusier (Drama Desk nom.), The Naked Eye Planets with Coyote REP, The Conjugality Test with Small Pond Entertainment, Three Sisters with Extant Arts Company (current); Film/TV: Vh1's Rock Band Cometh: The Rock Band Story, …Around, Uno, Obsession, Decisions, The Imp of the Perverse, Tom's Phone (upcoming)
SAMANTHA CUTARAN: Theater: Eating Out, The Tale of Snow White; Royal Academy of Dramatic Art/ Stella Adler: The Winter's Tale, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Titus Andronicus, Rashomon, A Lie of the Mind; Film: Fear Forest, Triangle, The Perfect Couple, Shattered, American Yearbook; Commercials: Acuvue, Verizon Wireless
Steve Rosen
Broadway: Original Cast of Monty Python's Spamalot, The Farnsworth Invention; Film/TV: Storytelling, Ed, numerous commercials; Co-producer and Host of Don't Quit Your Night Job, a monthly improv-comedy-variety benefit starring Broadway actors.
KATE KUEN: Theater: Cinderella (tour), This Means Kill, Been So Long; Film: Fate Twisted Simply, Never Have I Ever, NYFA shorts: Guynecology, Day on Wheels, Holding It In; TV: March Madness BFG Road Crew, The Beast (A&E)
(JESSICA) TRISTIN DALEY: Film: Astral Projection Can Kill You, Dead Zone, String Theories: Action, Simple Apple, The Traveler, Eden; Off-Off Broadway: Man Is Man, McGurk's Suicide Hall, Antigone, Prometheus Bound; Stella Adler: All's Well That Ends Well, Playing for Time, Whale Music, Arabian Nights
CLAY ADAMS: Animation (voices): Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Fast Forward (Fox), Yu-Gi-Oh GX (Cartoon Network), Daniel Kanemoto's Articles of War; Film: Perception (upcoming), Bloodline (Lionsgate), The Shadow Walkers (Lionsgate); TV: As the World Turns (recurring), One Life to Live, All My Children; Theater: member of the 24/7 Lab and New York Neo-Futurists
Alicia St. Louis
NY: Reunion by David Mamet at the American Theatre of Actors; member Samsara Theatre Company
JAMES BARTELLE: Founding member of The NOLA Project, a theatre company in New Orleans: The Lieutenant of Inishmore, The Misanthrope, Cloud 9, The Wind in the Willows, Get This Lake Off My House: Our Tempest, Thom Pain (based on nothing). Writer of A Kingdom of Statues for The Nola Project Sand-Box Series; Theater: J.B., featured in five original works by New Orleans playwrights in The Beignet Plays
Ann Morgan
SAS class of 1998, TV: "The West Wing", "Grey's Anatomy", "Dawson's Creek", Film: "Spartan", "Runaway Jury", "Solaris", "Love Liza"
JACQUELINE THUENER-REGO: Theater: Elizabeth Meriwether's The True Love Story of My Parents, Theatre of the Diverse, The Trailer Park Broadcasting Scandals, Macbeth, All's Well that Ends Well; Contributing Playwright for the Slam Theatre. Recent workshops with Augosto Boal at the Centro do Teatro Oprimido in Brazil.
LAUREN SILVI: Film: Two of A Kind, Tightrope; Television: Film Fakers, The Bold and the Beautiful; Theater: The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore (Fountain Theater in L.A.)
MOLLY SCHREIBER: Theater: Melinda Lopez's Gary (current), Travesties (upcoming), Brendan (Huntington Theatre Co.), Henry V, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Tom Jones, The Maids; Television: Louisa May Alcott: The Real Woman Who Wrote Little Women for PBS American Masters Series, various commercials; Film: The Visitor
Joby Earle
SAS class of 2005; NY: C4 The Chekhov Project from the major plays of Anton Chekhov; Regional: Orsino in Shakespeare Venture's Twelfth Night
Beth Jastroch
Regional: Bertram's Mother and the Widow in Hudson Shakespeare Company performs All's Well That Ends Well
ANISHA NAGARAJAN: Broadway: Originated role of Priya (lead) in Andrew Lloyd Webber's Bombay Dreams, Featured in The Actor's Fund Benefit of Hair; Off-Broadway and Regional: Snapshots, The Wiz, Princesses, Anything Goes, Splendor in the Grass, Fiddler on the Roof, To Kill a Mocking Bird; Performed for President Bush and Queen Elizabeth II at Winfield House, Regent's Park, London
REBECCA KEREN EISENSTADT: Producer/Performer: Elizabeth Swados' Atonement: An Oratorio, A Bright Room Called Day; Theater: The Dybbuk, a Tisch School of the Arts Mainstage; Producer: Man is Man at Here Arts Center; Currently works as a Marketing Resident at Playwrights Horizons
ROARKE WALKER: Theater: 24 Hour Plays: Old Vic New Voices with Kevin Spacey, MCC FreshPlay Festival; Stella Adler/ RADA: All's Well That Ends Well, Much Ado About Nothing; Represented by Leading Artists
Darian Dauchan
Broadway: Twentieth Century; Off-Broadway: performances with Jean Cocteau Rep. and Classical Theater of Harlem; Television: Law and Order, Nickelodeon's Bet the House; Spoken Word: 2006 Slam Team for Nuyorican Poets Café, Urbana Grand Slam Champion for the Bowery Poetry Club. His "Barack Obama" poem is can be seen on YouTube. His first spoken word album, Darian Dauchan (Live): The Big Apple Recordings is now available on PoetCD.com
ELYSIA SEGAL: Theater: George M. Cohan: In His Own Words, What Fairy Tale Is This, Anyway?! The Musical, Emergency Contraception!: The Musical, Marzipan & Spatula (potentially showing at 2008 New York International Fringe Festival)
DOUG O'LEAR: Television: Series Regular on HBO's The Wire, Law & Order, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, The Day Lincoln Was Shot, As the World Turns, Something the Lord Made (Emmy Award for Best TV Movie); Theater: The Brothers Berg, Shear Madness at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C.; Co-Founder of Do Not Panic Productions, LLC: short film, Hold On, currently in the 2008 film festival circuit.
Laura L.C. Smith
SAS class of 2005; NY: Surgery at the Midtown International Theatre Festival
SARAH SCHMITZ: Theater: The Great God Brown, As You Like It, Ladies of the Left Bank, The Gnadiges Fraulein at The Tennessee Williams Festival; Film: The Minor Fifth, Redemption Falls, Night Swimming (upcoming), webseries Changing Direction
Ethan Cohn
SAS class of 1998; TV: "CSI Miami", "Gilmore Girls"; Film: "Cry Wolf", "On the Doll", "The Gene Generation", "Lady in the Water", "Art School Confidential"
Bryce Dallas Howard
SAS class of 2004; Film: The Village, Manderlay, Lady in the Water, As You Like It (Golden Globe nomination), Spider-Man 3, The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond (upcoming); Broadway: Tartuffe
Davd Lengel
TV: "Pandemic"; Film: "Bald"
KRISTIN WITTERSCHEIN: Stella Adler: All's Well That Ends Well, Camille, The Diviners, Angels in America: Millenium Approaches, Angels in America: Perestroika
SEAN GLAZEBROOK: Founding Member of the NOLA Project, a theatre company in New Orleans: The Cripple of Inishmaan, The Misanthrope, The Wind in the Willows; NYU/RADA: The Winter's Tale, Hedda Gabler, Three Sisters, There Was and There Wasn't
TREVOR DALLIER: Founding Member of Wide Eyed Productions: Medea, Much Ado About Nothing; Theater: Plays for the Sunni Triangle, member of SLAM Theatre; Film: Marathon, Points (series of comedic shorts)
Genevieve Cortese
Television: Star of ABC Family's Wildfire, The Dead Zone; Film: Life is Short, Kids in America, Mojave
Anisha Najaran
SAS class of 2004; Broadway: Bombay Dreams
Kristoffer Polaha
TV: "Miss/Guided", "Bones", "CSI Miami", "North Shore"
JOHN PAUL PITOC: Television: Ghost Whisperer, Bones, Crossing Jordan, Cold Case, NYPD Blue, Six Feet Under, CSI; Film: Shifting the Canvas, Shoot or Be Shot, Just Can't Get Enough, Shooting L.A., Thank You, Good Night, In the Weeds
Daryl Watson
Co-Founder Real Theater Works
Nathan Bredeman
Regional: American Drama: Pocket Edition at the Minnesota Fringe Fesitval
Chad Deverman
Regional: Dim in A Clockwork Orange and Weinburl in On the Razzle at Williamstown; International: Tybalt in Romeo and Juliet at RADA.
Jackie Miller
International: Anna in Ivonov with the Moscow Art Theatre School; Regional: Nahid in William Mastrosimone's The Afghan Women at The Becton Theatre.
Paul Kropfl
SAS class of 2003; NY: Thoroughbred Records' When the Lights Go on Again, Young Saul in Geva Theatre Center & New York Summer Play Festival's Splitting Infinity; Regional: Reuven Malter in Coconut Grove Playhouse & Paper Mill Playhouse's The Chosen
Colin McFadden
SAS class of 2004; Regional: King Wenceslas, Aragonian, Czar in The Stonehill Theatre Company's Ubu & Friends
Mandy Sayle
SAS class of 2005; NY: Tracy in Automatic Superstar, Through The Eyes of a Friend and New American with Living Voices/Theatreworks; Voiceover: Holiday Cheer Campaign VH1, Marketing Promos 2005 Amstel Light Hip, Sims Customer Service Best Buy
Dusty McKeelan
SAS class of 2005; NY: Francis Flute in Moon Beam Production's A Mid Summer Night's Dream; Revelations Circus
Laura Caputo
SAS class of 1998; NY: Patty Hearst in Patty Cake(NYC Fringe Festival 2005)
Siobhan Towey
SAS class of 1998; NY: Jaquenetta in Boomerang Theater Company's Love's Labor's Lost, Regional: Shakespeare Santa Monica 2005 company member
Gemma Roskam
SAS class of 1998; TV: several national commercials, Film: "The Replacements"
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