Olympia Dukakis Teaches New School for Drama Master Class

This fall Oscar-winning actress, producer, author and director Olympia Dukakis is leading a series of master classes at The New School for Drama. In the course, "Directing Chekhov and Beckett," directing students analyze important works from these seminal playwrights to gain a better understanding of how to stage their plays. Dukakis and her husband actor Louis Zorich are known as master interpreters of Chekhovian plays, one of their more recent acting collaborations was in The Chekhov Cycle in 2003. Dukakis herself starred in the The Cherry Orchard in 1981 and 2001.

At The New School for Drama, the instinct to create is revered. Through its interrelated, three-year MFA program in acting, directing, or playwriting, the school is forging the next generation of dramatic artists. A faculty of working professionals brings to the fore each student's unique and original voice, and helps them establish a rooted sense of who they are as individuals and as artists. The New School's history in the dramatic arts began in the 1940s, when the Dramatic Workshop, led by founder Erwin Piscator and a faculty including Stella Adler and Lee Strasberg, fostered artistic voices as distinctive as Tennessee Williams and Marlon Brando. For more information, visit www.drama.newschool.edu. 

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