
Linville continues to teach at the academy as the lead instructor for the last 25 years. The facility houses the not-for-profit Stella Adler Theatre, the Irene Gilbert Theatre, The Studio C Theatre, classrooms, dance studio, music studio, library, dressing rooms, video and equipment room, scene shop and administrative offices, all dedicated to teaching Stella's technique. The school is an acting studio offering extensive training for actors in theatre, film, and television. The historic location housed the famous Embassy Club in the 1930s. It was renamed the Stella Adler Academy of Acting celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2010.

In 1994, Irene Gilbert reopened the school present location at 6773 Hollywood Boulevard and Highland Avenue. The building was threatened with demolition to make way for a proposed subway line at the time of Adler's death in 1992. A fire forced the temporary closure of the school in 1991. The original school was located in a small theater at Hollywood Boulevard and Argyle Avenue. Gilbert would remain the director of the school for twenty years. Together, Gilbert and Linville are considered the school's co-founders, with Adler granting them permission to use her name. Protégés Joanne Linville and Irene Gilbert persuaded Stella Adler to open the academy in 1985 in Los Angeles. Some of the notable names that have passed through the Hollywood conservatory include Nick Nolte, Salma Hayek, Eric Stoltz, Deidre Hall, Sean Astin, John Charles Jopson, John Ritter, Cybill Shepherd, Michael Richards, Benicio del Toro, and Mark Ruffalo. She taught for many years at various locations in Los Angeles and she and long time friend and protégé Joanne Linville eventually opened the doors to the Stella Adler Conservatory of Acting at the corner of Hollywood Boulevard and Argyle. Stella’s long history with Hollywood meant she had close ties and strong connections in the Los Angeles area. The Stella Adler Academy of Acting & Theatre

The Stella Adler Studio of Acting is not affiliated with the Stella Adler Academy in Los Angeles. The Stella Adler Studio of Acting New York City's official West Coast Branch is the Art of Acting Studio Los Angeles, named after Stella Adler's most famous book. Tom Oppenheim, grandson of Stella Adler, is the Artistic Director and President. Stella’s daughter Ellen is the Studio’s Executive Chair.
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The mission of the Stella Adler Studio of Acting is to create an environment with the purpose of nurturing theatre artists who value humanity, their own and others, as their first and most precious priority while providing art and education to the greater community. The Studio became a 501(c)3 not-for-profit organization in 2000. In 1969, The Stella Adler Studio of Acting became the first professional training school to become affiliated with New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. The Studio was founded in 1949 by Stella Adler. The Stella Adler Studio of Acting is located in New York City. Among her early students were Marlon Brando, Robert De Niro, Warren Beatty, Elaine Stritch, Mario Van Peebles, Harvey Keitel and Candice Bergen. Onstage experience was acquired by performances of scenes and plays before an invited audience.

The studio offered courses in principles of acting, voice and speech, Shakespeare, movement, and makeup, as well as workshops in play analysis, character, scene preparation and acting styles. Ĭombining what she had learned from the Yiddish theatre, the Group Theatre, Broadway, Hollywood, and Constantin Stanislavski, Stella created the Stella Adler Theatre Studio, later renamed the Stella Adler Conservatory of Acting and more recently the Stella Adler Studio of Acting, where she taught acting for many decades, and in 1985 she opened the Stella Adler Academy and Theatre in Los Angeles. She left the faculty in 1949 to establish her own studio in New York in the same year. Stella Adler (1901–1992), Founder of the SchoolĬoncurrent with her work as an actor and director, Stella Adler began to teach in the early 1940s at the Erwin Piscator Workshop at the New School for Social Research in New York.
