What can Lee Strasberg teach the modern actor? The Lee Strasberg Notes reproduces the original teachings of a unique voice in actor training for the very first time, presenting an enlightening approach to today’s practitioners.

Compiled and edited by Lola Cohen, an acting teacher at the Lee Strasberg Theater and Film Institute and one his former pupils, the book is based on unpublished transcripts of his own classes on acting, directing and Shakespeare, re-creating his theoretical
approach, as well as the practical exercises used by his students.\

The book features Strasberg’s teachings on:

• Training and exercises

• Characters and scenes

• Directing and the Method

• Shakespeare and Stanislavski

• The theater, acting and actors.

Including a Preface by Anna Strasberg and a Foreword by Martin
Sheen, this illuminating book brings the reader closer to Strasberg’s
own methods than any other, making it an invaluable resource for
students, actors, and directors.

Lola Cohen has taught acting for over twenty three years at the Lee Strasberg Theater and Film Institute and for the last eleven years as adjunct professor for NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts Acting Program. She has directed productions of plays with student and professional actors including A Midsummer Night’s Dream for the Woodstock Youth Theater, Jean Genet’s The Maids at the Strasberg Institute and Lewis John Carlino’s Snowangel while 2009 Artist-in-Residence at SUNY-Ulster.