Ridgefield Theater Barn hosts Susan Grace Cohen for special adult acting class.

Registration is still open for this calss as noted on the Barn’s website. But that won’t last for long.

“Developing Your Acting Career” Returns!

The Ridgefield Theater Barn is thrilled to be able to offer an adults-only acting class again this season, taught by Susan Grace Cohen, formerly of  NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute.

Among Ms. Cohen’s former students: James Gandolfini (Sopranos), Linda Hamilton (Terminator 1 & 2) Karen Allen (Raiders of the Lost Ark), James Spader (Sex, Lies and Videotape, Boston Legal, Race), Melora Walters (Boogie Nights, Magnolia, Big Love), Steven Buscemi (Fargo, Sopranos), Mel Harris (thirtysomething), Justin Chambers (Grey’s Anatomy), Heather Juergensen (Kissing Jessica Stein) and Sarah Burns, (I Love You, Man).

With John Strasberg, son of the late Lee Strasberg, Ms. Cohen owned and operated a private acting studio in New York City, Paris, Barcelona and Madrid. She coaches principals for Broadway, Off Broadway, film & television. She was honored to represent the United States in the work of Lee Strasberg, at the Metodi Festival in Tuscany, where guest master acting teachers and directors from throughout the world were represented.

She is author of Bridging the Gap, Student to Professional Actor, and is a contributing essayist to the online newspaper, Soul of the American Actor. Recently, Ms. Cohen received the James L. Hearst Guest Lecturer Award in the Arts and Humanities at the University of Northern Iowa. She has led acting workshops at Pace University, Miami Dade Community College and The Bank Street College of Education.

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