Herbert Berghof began his Studio in New York in1945. Uta Hagen joined him in 1945. Together, they trained generations of actors as the Studio grew from rented space on 26th Street to today’s three buildings at 120 Bank Street in the West Village. Uta wrote The Studio Story (and she re-wrote it as the Studio and Playwrights Foundation grew and expanded).
Edith Meeks, Executive & Artistic Director of HB Studio has provided a foreword. In it she writes, ‘The personal and professional stories of Herbert Berghof and Uta Hagen are inextricably intertwined with the story of HB, their Studio: the haven they created for theater artists to pursue their own ideas and methods.’
The publication of this book is a gift from Uta’s daughter Letty Ferrer and her grand-daughter, Teresa Teuscher, in honor of the Centennial of Uta’s birth.
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Born and educated in Vienna, Austria, Berghof studied acting there with Max Reinhardt.[1] In 1939, he moved to New York where he launched a career as an actor and director on Broadway, and worked with Lee Strasberg.[2] Berghof became a charter member of the Actors Studio in 1947, with classmates including Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, Jerome Robbins, and Sidney Lumet.[3]In 1945, he co-founded HB Studio (the Herbert Berghof Studio) in New York City, as a place where aspiring actors could train and practice. In 1948, Uta Hagen joined the Studio as Berghof’s artistic partner, and they married in 1957. They ran the studio together until his death in 1990.[2] Notable alumni included Jack Lemmon, Al Pacino, Liza Minnelli, Robert De Niro, Geraldine Page, Fritz Weaver, Anne Bancroft, Donna Mc Kechnie and Matthew Broderick.[4][5] Despite being a charter member of the Actors Studio, he differed ‘with those colleagues who expounded the Method technique when his approach shifted to an emphasis on actions rather than thoughts and reactions.'[4]Stage appearances by Berghof included roles in Ibsen’s The Lady from the Sea (1950), The Andersonville Trial (1959). Among his film appearances were 5 Fingers (1952), Red Planet Mars (1952), Fräulein (1958), Cleopatra (1963), An Affair of the Skin (1963), Harry and Tonto (1974), Voices (1979), Those Lips, Those Eyes (1980), Times Square (1980) and Target (1985). He directed the first Broadway production of Beckett’s Waiting for Godot (1956).[1]Described by The New York Times as ‘one of the nation’s most respected acting teachers and coaches’, he died of a heart ailment on 5 November 1990 at his home in Manhattan.[4]https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Herbert_Berghof&oldid=1100954383
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