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Brustein was dean of the Yale School of Drama from 1966 to 1979, during which time he was also artistic director of the Yale Repertory Theatre, said Jan G. Geidt, director of public relations for the ART. Brustein then moved to Harvard, where he founded the ART. He has written nine books and has been a regular contributor to The New Republic since the late 1950s...
This semester Geidt taught a character improvisation class, supplying masks, clothes, wigs, golf clubs, and "lots of just junk" from which students created characters for themselves...
...Geidt] wanted to show us how the externals of a character feed the internals of a character," says acting student Sheryl Taub, whose character in the class was Mini Affluence, an "obnoxious, gauche casting director...
...think a mask would constrict, but actually it releases them," Geidt says. "You have to teach the actors to use themselves...
Many of the students say that the opportunity to work with world class actors and artists like Brustein, Surban, Geidt, Epstein, Raphael, Loui and the new movement coach Lucinda Childs is the Institute's best aspect...