51 Drama teachers

Gustaf Fredrik Åbergsson née Åberg was a Swedish stage actor, theatre director and principal of Dramatens elevskola. He belonged to the leading actors in the Swedish theatre history.

Florence Adelaide Fowle Adams was a dramatic reader, actor, author, and teacher.

Stella Adler was an American actress and acting teacher. She founded the Stella Adler Studio of Acting in New York City in 1949. Later in life she taught part time in Los Angeles, with the assistance of her protégée, actress Joanne Linville, who continued to teach Adler's technique. Her grandson Tom Oppenheim now runs the school in New York City, which has produced alumni such as Marlon Brando, Robert De Niro, Harvey Keitel, Elaine Stritch, Kate Mulgrew, Kipp Hamilton, Jenny Lumet, and Jeff Celentano.

Knut Almlöf, was a Swedish stage actor. He was an elite actors of the Royal Dramatic Theatre and one of the most famed actors of his time in Sweden.

Nils Vilhelm Almlöf (1799–1875) was a Swedish stage actor. He was one of the most famous Swedish actors of his time and referred to as "The Swedish Talma".

Costache or Kostake Aristia was a Wallachian-born poet, actor and translator, also noted for his activities as a soldier, schoolteacher, and philanthropist. A member of the Greek colony, his adolescence and early youth coincided with the peak of Hellenization in both Danubian Principalities. He first appeared on stage at Cișmeaua Roșie in Bucharest, and became a protege of Lady Rallou. She sponsored his voyage to France, where Aristia became an imitator of François-Joseph Talma.

Maggie May Baird is an American actress, voice artist, screenwriter, and former theater troupe teacher.

George Pierce Baker was a professor of English at Harvard and Yale and author of Dramatic Technique, a codification of the principles of drama.

Michal Bat-Adam is an Israeli film director, producer, screenwriter, actress, and musician. Her films deal with complex and conflicted relationships, especially relationships within families. She also explores the line between sanity and mental illness. Many of these movies contain autobiographical elements.

René Bazinet is a German-Canadian clown, mime, and stage and film actor. He is known for his work with Cirque du Soleil, first as a performing artist touring extensively with Saltimbanco, and later as the clown act creator and acting consultant for the show as well as for Cirque du Soleil's 2011 production Zarkana. He has also starred in shows at the Berlin Wintergarten and the Circus Roncalli.

Karolina Sofia Bock née Richter was a Swedish stage actress. She was the principal and drama teacher of the Dramatens elevskola twice: from 1831 to 1834, and from 1841 to 1856. She was an elite actress of the Royal Dramatic Theatre.

Betty Lou Bredemus was an American actress and acting coach. The matriarch of the Roberts family, which includes Academy Award-winning actress Julia Roberts, Academy Award-nominated actor Eric Roberts, and granddaughter Emma Roberts, she also served in the United States Air Force and received a National Defense Service Medal for her service, which was spent entertaining the troops in Air Force base theatrical productions.

Anne Carlisle is an American actress, performance artist, acting teacher, author, and model.

Mikhail Aleksandrovich "Michael" Chekhov was a Russian-American actor, director, author and theatre practitioner. He was a nephew of the playwright Anton Chekhov and a student of Konstantin Stanislavski. Stanislavski referred to him as his most brilliant student.

Ion Cojar was a Romanian acting teacher, researcher and theatre director. He is the founder of a unique method that revolutionised the Romanian school of acting.

Jeff Corey was an American stage and screen actor and director who became a well-respected acting teacher after being blacklisted in the 1950s.

Lito Cruz was a prominent Argentine stage director and motion picture actor.

Hedvig Kristina Elisabeth "Betty" Deland was a Swedish stage actress. She was a principal of the Dramatens elevskola and belong to the elite of Swedish 19th-century actors. She was known as Betty Deland until 1857 and then as Betty Almlöf.

Anne Marie Milan Desguillons née Milan was a French stage actress. She was active in the French Theater of Gustav III in Sweden in 1781-92, and principal of the Dramatens elevskola jointly with Joseph Sauze Desguillons 1793-98.

Josephine Dillon was an American stage and film actress and acting teacher. She is best known as Clark Gable's patron, acting coach and first wife.

Louise Dumont was a German actress and theater director.

Charlotta Maria Eriksson was a Swedish stage actress. She was also an instructor and deputy principal of the Dramatens elevskola. She belonged to the elite actors of the Royal Dramatic Theater.

Peggy Feury was an American actress on Broadway, in films, and on television. She became a highly regarded acting teacher in New York and then in Los Angeles. Throughout her career, she taught many notable students.

Arnošt Goldflam is a Czech playwright, writer, director, screenwriter, and actor. He appeared in more than thirty films between 1986 and 2011.

Uta Thyra Hagen was a German-American actress and theatre practitioner. She originated the role of Martha in the 1962 Broadway premiere of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee, who called her "a profoundly truthful actress". Because Hagen was on the Hollywood blacklist, in part because of her association with Paul Robeson, her film opportunities dwindled and she focused her career on New York theatre.

Arend Hauer was a Dutch actor and drama teacher who appeared in several stage, television and radio dramas. He was the father of actor and environmentalist Rutger Hauer.

Ottilia Carolina Kuhlman was a Swedish stage actress. She was an elite member of the Royal Dramatic Theatre, where she was considered the leading lady in the early 19th-century. She was an instructor and deputy principal of the Dramatens elevskola. She was also known as Carolina Deland and Carolina Åbergsson.

Robert Lewis was an American actor, director, teacher, author and founder of the influential Actors Studio in New York in 1947.

Phyllis Ann Love was an American theater and television actress.

Volodymyr Lukashev is a Ukrainian opera director, theatrical figure, and teacher. He has won the People's Artist of Ukraine award as well as other international awards.

Colm Magner is a Canadian actor, writer, and director currently residing in New York City. Colm previously lived in Prince Edward Island, Canada, where he taught acting, playwriting, and academic writing at the University of Prince Edward Island. He served as the theatre critic for The Guardian Newspaper P.E.I. from 2016 to 2018. Join us ‘In the Wings’ | The Guardian He has worked in theatre, television, and film in Canada since 1982, during which time he worked with several of Canada's theatre companies including Da Da Kamera, DNA Theatre, and with DD Kugler, director and former dramaturge for the Necessary Angel Theatre Company.

Alethea Ada McGrath was an Australian actress and comedian. She played Jocasta Nu in Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones.

Sanford "Sandy" Meisner was an American actor and acting teacher who developed an approach to acting instruction that is now known as the Meisner technique. While Meisner was exposed to method acting at the Group Theatre, his approach differed markedly in that he completely abandoned the use of affective memory, a distinct characteristic of method acting. Meisner maintained an emphasis on "the reality of doing", which was the foundation of his approach.

Anton Michailovič Milenin is a Russian theatre actor, director and teacher who has worked in Italy and Russia for more than fifteen years.

Antoine-Martial Louis Barizain also called Louis Monrose or Monrose (1811–1883) was a 19th-century French actor. The actor Claude Louis Séraphin Barizain (1783-1843) was his father. The actress Mademoiselle Monrose was his step sister due to her marriage with his brother, Eugène (Barizain).

Sonia Moore was a Russian Empire-born American actress, writer and acting teacher. She is known for simplifying Stanislavski's system of acting devised by Konstantin Stanislavski. Moore was a student of Yevgeny Vakhtangov, and later became an acting teacher.

George Morrison was one of the leading teachers of acting in the United States.

Caroline Frederikke Müller née Halle also known as Caroline Walther, was a Danish and later naturalized Swedish opera singer (mezzo-soprano). She was also active as an instructor at the Dramatens elevskola. She was a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music and a Hovsångare.

John Ramsay Allardyce Nicoll was a British literary scholar and teacher.

Aleksandar Novaković is a Serbian writer and playwright.

Pope.L is an American visual artist best known for his work in performance art, and interventionist public art. However, he has also produced art in painting, photography and theater. He was included in the 2002 Whitney Biennial and is a Guggenheim Fellow and a recipient of the Creative Capital Visual Arts Award. Pope.L was also included in the 2017 Whitney Biennial.

Josephine Riley is a British writer, translator, theatre actor, and schoolteacher. Dr. Riley has written and translated several books about theatre arts, especially Chinese theatre. She currently teaches film and drama at Munich International School in Germany.

Raymond St. Jacques was an American actor, director and producer whos career spanned over thirty years on stage, film and television. St. Jacques is noted as the first African American actor to appear in a regular role on a western series, portraying Simon Blake on the eighth season of Rawhide (1965–1966).

María Asunción Rodés Serna, better known as Assumpta Serna, is a Spanish actress and author. Born in Barcelona, Serna has performed in 20 countries in six languages and is the recipient of more than 20 international awards.

Viola Spolin was an American theatre academic, educator and acting coach. She is considered an important innovator in 20th century American theater for creating directorial techniques to help actors to be focused in the present moment and to find choices improvisationally, as if in real life. These acting exercises she later called Theater Games and formed the first body of work that enabled other directors and actors to create improvisational theater. Her book Improvisation for the Theater, which published these techniques, includes her philosophy and her teaching and coaching methods, and is considered the "bible of improvisational theater". Spolin's contributions were seminal to the improvisational theater movement in the U.S. She is considered to be the mother of Improvisational theater. Her work has influenced American theater, television and film by providing new tools and techniques that are now used by actors, directors and writers.

Muriel Myee Steinbeck was an Australian actress who worked extensively in radio, theatre, television and film. She is best known for her performance as the wife of Sir Charles Kingsford Smith in Smithy (1946) and for playing the lead role in Autumn Affair (1958–59), Australia's first television serial.

Lee Strasberg was a Polish-born American actor, director, and theatre practitioner. He co-founded, with directors Harold Clurman and Cheryl Crawford, the Group Theatre in 1931, which was hailed as "America's first true theatrical collective". In 1951 he became director of the nonprofit Actors Studio in New York City, considered "the nation's most prestigious acting school," and in 1966 he was involved in the creation of Actors Studio West in Los Angeles.

William Hurley Traylor, Jr. was an American television, theater, and motion picture actor. He was also, along with his wife, Peggy Feury, an acting coach and founder of The Loft Studio, an acting school attended by such major stars as Sean Penn, Anjelica Huston and Nicolas Cage. He is the father of actresses Stephanie Feury and Susan Traylor.

Nelson Wheatcroft (1852–1897) was an English-born actor and drama teacher. He famously ran a drama school, at the Charles Frohman Empire Theatre, in the late Victorian era. He was married to Adeline Stanhope (1856–1935). Their son Stanhope Wheatcroft (1888–1966) was a silent film actor.

Geoffrey Arundel Whitworth CBE was an English lecturer and author who sought to promote amateur and professional theatre through the formation of the British Drama League, acting as its director for many years. Whitworth was instrumental in the founding of the National Theatre, and served the committee lobbying for this as its secretary. Though not an actor, he was praised by George Bernard Shaw as one of the most important figures in the history of British theatre. The library he assembled is a large and important collection, now held at the Theatre Museum at Covent Garden.

Katharine Worth was a British academic, Professor of Drama at Royal Holloway, University of London.