The Actors' Studio

Janine Manatis

The Actors' Studio

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At the tender age of 17, Janine moved to New York to begin her career as an actor and writer. Janine attended The Actors' Studio NY in its heyday, the early 1950s and 60s, under the tutilage of her mentor, Lee Strasberg, and under the incredible generosity and perserverance of Broadway producer Cheryl Crawford. More "History-Making" events and stories below...

JANINE MANATIS

"STUDIO STORIES"

Janine's Bio

Read about the "history-making" adaptation and live production of Edna St. Vincent Millay's blank verse play "Conversation at Midnight"

James Baldwin's advice to Janine as a writer...

How "Ensemble" work happened at the Studio, including Elia Kazan and Tennessee Williams collaboration on "Sweet Bird of Youth" (see "Ensemble, The Method, and All That Jazz")

JANINE MANATIS

TRAINED by the 3 giants of MethodActing: Lee Strasberg, Sandford Meisner, Stella Adler.

Award Winning Actor - New York Theatre Critics Circle
Offered 5-picture deal, Paramount, as "The Next Ingrid Bergman"
Youngest Member, Kazan's Directors' Unit - The Actors' Studio
Moderator Playwrights' Unit - The Actors' Studio (invited by Edward Albee to succeed him)
Rockerfeller & Ford Grants Sponsored by Broadway & Actors' Studio producer Cheryl Crawford
Mentored as a writer by the late great James Baldwin (see "Tributes")

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