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Jack Waltzer is a lifetime member of the Actors Studio, and trained intensively for many years with America's foremost teachers and directors of the Stanislavsky System. These include Stella Adler, Sanford Meisner, Lee Strasberg, Bobby Lewis, Uta Hagen and Elia Kazan, among others.

 

As an actor, his credits include :

- BROADWAY : "THE MATCHMAKER" - starring Ruth Gordon (Booth Theater)

- REPERTORY : Charter member of the Elia Kazan, Arthur Miller, Harold Clurman and Robert Whitehead's LINCOLN CENTER REPERTORY COMPANY, where he appeared in : "AFTER THE FALL", "MARCO MILLIONS","BUT FOR WHOM CHARLIE", "THE CHANGELING", "TARTUFFE" and "INCIDENT IN VICHY"
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Arthur Miller, Elia Kazan, Robert Whitehead and Harold Clurman with the LINCOLN CENTER REPERTORY COMPANY

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- NATIONAL ROAD TOUR :"MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING" starring Katherine Hepburn

- AMERICAN SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL (Stratford CT), appeared in: "TAMING OF THE SHREW", "KING JOHN", "MEASURE FOR MEASURE", "OTHELLO", THE MERCHANT OF VENICE" and "MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING"

- BERKSHIRE THEATRE FESTIVAL (Artistic directors : Arthur Penn, George Tabori) - appeared in : "WAITING FOR GODOT", "THE MERCHANT OF VENICE" and "THE CRETAN WOMAN"

- Charter member of the INNER CITY REPERTORY CO (Los Angeles) - Artistic Producer : Gregory Peck - Artistic director : Andre Gregory
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- RESIDENT THEATRE (Hartford Theatre) :

- "THE CHAIN" : written and directed by Elia Kazan

- "TWELVE ANGRY MEN" (Queens Theatre)

- "THE ODD COUPLE" (Touring)

- ACTORS STUDIO PRODUCTIONS : "THE SILENT PARTNER", "THE CHAIN"

- OFF-BROADWAY : "TO DAMASCUS", "THE SECRETE CONCUBINE" and "JOHNNY JOHNSON" (Produced and directed by Stella Adler)

Jack decided to start teaching in 1967, when he was in Los Angeles as a member of the Inner City Repertory Co.

Jack Waltzer was one of the original instructors chosen, personally, by Lee Strasberg, when he started the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute, in New York City.

Jack's teaching has been inspired by the great teachers and directors of the Stanislavsky system, who he trained and worked for many years.

Jack now teaches the "JACK WALTZER TECHNIQUE" in New York, Los Angeles, Paris and London

Jack Waltzer and Elia Kazan

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"Jack Waltzer showed real gifts"
Elia Kazan
Show Magazine - Jan. 1965

 
Jack Waltzer, Barry Primus, Jason Robards
and Stanley Beck