Robert Lewis

Robert Lewis 1909 1997 was an American actor director teacher author and founder of the Actors Studio in New York in 1947 In addition to his accomplishments on Broadway and in Hollywood Lewis greatest and longest lasting contribution to American theater may be the role he played as one of the foremost acting and directing teachers of his day He was an early proponent of the Stanislavski System of acting technique and a founding member of New Yorks revolutionary Group Theatre in the 1930s In the 1970s he was the Head of the Yale School of Drama Acting and Directing Departments