Milton Justice was mentored by the legendary Stella Adler and when Miss Adler opened her Conservatory in Los Angeles she both asked him to teach for her and selected him to be Artistic Director of the Stella Adler Theater Company. The Company’s efforts were rewarded with seventeen local critics’ awards.

In addition he has taught at Yale, NYU, Unitec in Auckland, New Zealand, and he was Dean of the Institute of Creative Arts in Seoul, Korea, as well as giving master classes in London, Prague, Sydney and Los Angeles. As an acting teacher he has had the privilege of coaching and teaching a wide range of actors including Mark Ruffalo, Margo Martindale, Bryce Dallas Howard, Sean Astin, Kyra Sedgwick, Grant Show, Chris Carmack, Chris Messina, Maura Tierney, and Patrick Stewart. 

Milton is an Oscar and Emmy Award winning producer as well, who began his career as an assistant at the New York Shakespeare Festival and moved between film, television and theater. His early career in television included five years with the Bob Hope Show, which included four USO tours to Vietnam. On Broadway he produced Tennessee Williams’ Vieux Carre,. Off Broadway he produced Jack Heifner’s Vanities (which became the longest running play in off-Broadway history and co-starred Kathy Bates) and Das Luscitania Songspiel (written by and starring Sigourney Weaver and Christopher Durang) which was selected as one of the 10 best plays of the year by the New York Times. He received an Oscar for producing the HBO documentary, Down and Out in America and an Emmy Award for Wanted: The Perfect Guy, starring Madeline Kahn and Ben Affleck.

His most recent film producing venture, Losing Chase (directed by Kevin Bacon and starring Helen Mirren and Kyra Sedgwick), premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and won a Golden Globe Award for Helen Mirren.

His podcast, I Don’t Need An Acting Class, which just completed its fifth season, has become one of the top acting podcasts in the world. His book of the same name was published by Applause Books in 2021.