Acting with Adler

Joanna Rotté is the author of the book Scene Change: A Theatre Diary—Prague, Moscow, Leningrad and of articles appearing in theatre journals and online arts and culture publications. She is emerita professor of theatre at Villanova University in Pennsylvania, where she taught acting and script analysis and directed plays for thirty years, including seven years as head of the theatre department. She is a volunteer teaching artist in the New York state prison system and offers a master class at the Stella Adler Studio. She is a member of Actors Equity. An archive of her writing, performances, and productions may be found at www.joannarotte.comor www.homepage.villanova.edu/joanna.rotte.

“I’m delighted that Joanna Rotté’s book, Acting with Adler, is being republished, this time with an additional chapter. The original book is simply the best, clearest, most illuminating work on Stella Adler’s Technique. But with the new chapter Rotté sends Acting with Adler spinning into another stratosphere, exactly where Stella would have wanted it to go. Joanna proposes the concept of Actor as Artist–Human Being and she offers a blueprint for getting us there! With Stella Adler, Joanna Rotté affirms a vision of theater as an ancient spiritual endeavor and calls for actors to be what they truly are, what Stella was: Spiritual Warriors. I recommend this book to the entire Adler community.”