Don Richardson was a director and teacher of actors for over fifty years. His credits include three Broadway productions and numerous prime-time television shows, among them winners of the Emmy and Peabody awards. His work is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Broadcasting and the Jewish Museum in New York. In California he is ...
I don't believe in the Stanislavsky "Method." I also don't believe you have to become a drunk to play one, or shoot yourself up to play a drug addict, or turn a trick to portray a prostitute. You don't even have to go out and kill someone to play a murderer. I believe that acting is a work of the imagination. I also believe in simplicity and abhor complexity. All good art is simple.
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At the age of eighteen, he had graduated as a scholarship student from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York, and he personally knew the originators of the Method in America, Lee Strasberg, Sanford Meisner, Bobby Lewis, Susan Strasberg, Elia Kazan, Luther Adler, etc.
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He was one of the original faculty in the newly established Film and Television Department at Tel Aviv University, 1972.
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