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Milton Justice
Stella Adler Technique
Masterclass
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Milton began as a student of Miss Adler's in the late seventies. In 1988 she appointed him to teach at her Los Angeles Academy as well as selecting him the Artistic Director of the Stella Adler Theatre Company. He has taught the Stella Adler Technique at Yale, NYU, Unitec New Zealand, and he was Dean of the Institute of Creative Arts in Seoul, Korea, as well as giving masterclasses in London, Prague, Sydney, Berlin, Marseille, and Los Angeles– with a list of students that include Kevin Bacon, Mark Ruffalo, Kyra Sedgwick, Sean Astin, Salma Hayek, Benecio del Toro as well as having coached such actors as Patrick Stewart, Moira Tierney and Kathy Bates.
For his work in film and television he has received an Oscar, an Emmy award and five Golden Globe nominations. His theatre work earned him seventeen Los Angeles Theatre Critics’ Awards and two New York Drama Desk nominations. He is the author of I Don’t Need An Acting Class as well as host of the podcast of the same name – now in its sixth season.
Class Highlights
The Technique
Through her work with Stanislavsky, Stella Adler developed a definitive and now famous approach to acting, having trained such acting luminaries as Marlon Brando and Robert De Niro. Her exercises demonstrate the accessible fundamentals of approaching a play and a screenplay. From deciphering the core idea of the text, to exploring character, action, circumstance and background, each exercise propels the actor experientially through the evolution of a part. Each class will begin with basic technique exercises.
Script Breakdown
One of the most illusive quests for the actor is the approach to text. Stella Adler was insistent that “your talent is in your choices,” but the question remained: how do you get to fresh, interesting and appropriate choices? Through a clear process of analyzing the script, the play is opened up and the character becomes clear, giving the actor full rein to fight the burden of clichés. A text will be chosen to explore, giving the actor key elements to access creative impulses.
Scene Study
The technique in action. A scene will be selected, the text broken down, character backgrounds discussed and built, improvisations around the text as a basis for the beginnings of rehearsal. An in-depth professional process taking the actor from first read through to a fully mounted performance of the scene.
Oscar and Emmy winner Milton Justice Acting Masterclass hosted by Actors Anonymous in Bucharest, April 2025.