Stella Adler Studio Presents Arts Festival May 5-8 - Caldwell, Strich, Albee and More to Participate

The Harold Clurman Festival of the Arts will kick off with a symposium to discuss Harold Clurman, his effect on American theater, culture and the lives and work of panelists Zoe Caldwell, Roy Scheider, David Amram, Elaine Stritch and Grace Schulman. The weekend line up will include Jazz and Classical concerts with David Amram, Ned Otter, and Laurence Gingold. Poetry readings will feature Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott, Harold Bloom, Pulitzer Prize winner Charles Wright and Grace Schulman. Several Adler student productions will be featured. Ronald Rand will perform his play, Clurman. Marian Seldes will star in Ellen M. Violet's play Dorothy Parker Gets the Last Word. The festival will culminate in a playwright's symposium on Harold's effect on their life and work and on the theater of his and our time. Edward Albee, John Guare and Horton Foote will participate. Finally, Marian Seldes will present the first ever Harold Clurman Lifetime Achievement Award to Mr. Albee.

The central goal of The Harold Clurman Festival for the Arts is to articulate the mission of The Stella Adler Studio of Acting - Growth as an actor and growth as a human being are synonymous. The Stella Adler Studio of Acting is dedicated to the perpetuation of this idea, so elemental to the life, work and spirit of Stella Adler. Our mission is to create an environment with the purpose of nurturing theatre artists who value humanity, their own and others, as their first and most precious priority while providing art and education to the greater community.

Proceeds from this event will support The Stella Adler Studio of Acting, its world class actor training program, extracurricular activities that are free and open to the public and the Stella Adler Building Fund. For more information, to support this event or buy tickets please contact Nina Capelli, Director of Development at (212)689-0087 ext. 27.

*Artists scheduled to participate