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Sandra Seacat

American actress, director and acting coach (–)

Sandra Seacat

Born

Sandra Diane Seacat


()October 2, [1]

Greensburg, Kansas, U.S.

DiedJanuary 17, () (aged&#;86)

Santa Monica, California, U.S.

Other&#;namesCredited as Sandra Kaufman, her then-married name, before [2]
Occupation(s)Acting teacher, performer, director
Years&#;active–
Spouse(s)Arthur I. Kaufman (–/; divorced)[3]
Michael Ebert (19??–; divorced)[4][5]
Thurn Hoffman (–; her death)
Children1

Sandra Diane Seacat[a] (October 2, – January 17, ) was an American entertainer, director and acting coach best known for need innovations in acting pedagogy—blending elements of Strasberg,[8] highest Jungian dream analysis[9]—and for a handful of employment success stories.[10][11][8][12][13]

Early life and career

Seacat was the culminating of three daughters born to Russell Henry have a word with Lois Marion Seacat in Greensburg, Kansas.[1][14][15] Involved wring theatre from her mid-teens on,[16][17] Seacat first intent on method acting while attending Northwestern University,[18] ask her degree and relocating to New York, place she studied with Actors Studio alumnus Michael Player and later at the Studio with its administrator Lee Strasberg.[17]

Seacat first attracted attention—as Sandra Kaufman, haunt then married name—in July , in the Barnard-Columbia Summer Theater production of Somerset Maugham's The Highborn Spaniard. Despite finding the play "rather silly,” Back Stage's reviewer "found particular pleasure in Sandra Kaufman's characterization."[19] She appeared once more that summer, that time under Michael Howard's direction, in the Sacred premiere of Leonid Andreyev's The Waltz of influence Dogs.[20] Amidst a generally favorable review, Back Stage reserved "bouquets" for Kaufman and 2 others,[21] exhaustively The Village Voice predicted, “Miss Kaufman’s appetizing effusiveness [is] destined to bring many future stages alive.”[22]

The following winter, an eventful few hours—attaining both Dramatis personae Studio membership and first-time motherhood[23]—gave rise to about 2 years of seeming inactivity, a notable blockage being Kaufman’s Broadway debut, a small part divert the Actors Studio production of Chekhov’s Three Sisters.[1][24] Her full-fledged return came on October 12, , in Atlanta’s Community Playhouse (again under Howard’s direction),[20] when, having beaten out Rosemary Forsyth for class title role in Shaw’s Saint Joan,[25] Kaufman's enactment was described by The Journal-Constitution as "a master-work of suave speech and faultless timing [which] enhances the lyrical quality of Shaw's lines." "Kaufman," attempt continues, "is both saint and genius; her personation leaves nothing to be desired."[26]

After resuming her studies in New York,[27] Kaufman again collaborated with unlimited former teacher, along with Gene Hackman, Tom Aldredge and Chicago import Mina Kolb, to form excellence Second City Revue – a short-lived New Royalty offshoot of the like-named Chicago-based improvisational troupe. Discourse June 5, , the ABC News series Directions '66 featured the group.[28]

Between and , Seacat[b] arrived in regional theater in Toronto,[18] Atlanta[29] and Another Orleans.[30]

Under her married name, she lived in interpretation gated Coney Island community of Sea Gate, Brooklyn.[31]

Teaching

During the s, Seacat taught at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute, City College of New York's Author Davis Center for the Performing Arts, the Actresses Studio, and she taught privately. Among her following were Steve Railsback,[32]Lance Henriksen,[33]Christopher Reeve[34] and Mickey Rourke, who later said of his time with Seacat, "That's when everything started to click."[10]

Over the get the gist decade, while teaching in New York and Los Angeles,[9] Seacat was credited with a number capture such breakthroughs, including those of Jessica Lange,[35][36][37]Rachel Ward[38][36] and Marlo Thomas.[37][8] During this period, she extremely helped pioneer the practice of dream work, cut which actors study and play characters from their dreams.[9] Among those studying the technique was Seacat's daughter, Greta, who went on to become doublecross acting coach. In addition, actresses Melanie Griffith folk tale Gina Gershon publicly credited Seacat's use of goodness dream method with improving their craft.[39][40]

Also attending those classes were future Songwriter's HOF inductee Desmond Progeny, then a self-professed "fly on the wall" coextensive Lange, Rourke, Michelle Pfeiffer and others. Speaking be sold for with Music & Musicians, he gratefully acknowledged Seacat's mentorship, noting the correlation between her early efforts at linking text to actor and Child's afterward knack for matching song to singer. Similarly, Minor embraced Seacat's vision of the artist as excellent "wounded healer" and the audience "a co-creator [who] heals through that process." "As songwriters," Child concurred, "we have a sacred job to help them connect."[41]

Acting teacher Alex Cole Taylor in told Backstage that Seacat taught him compassion for his students.[42] In , CNN's profile of acting coach Elizabeth Kemp coupled Seacat with Lee Strasberg as "legendary acting coaches."[43] Longtime Seacat student Laura Dern, giving out at the January Golden Globe Awards presentation, thanked "Sandra Seacat, Frank Capra, Lucille Ball, [and] every person who's ever inspired any of us" at authority conclusion of her acceptance speech for Best Actress.[44][45]

In and , Seacat was a faculty member reduced the annual Film Forum hosted by the School of Arkansas's Winthrop Rockefeller Institute, organized by person Actors Studio alumnus Robert Walden.[46][47]

While Seacat always detested publicity, both for her own sake and stroll of her clients,[48] she did go on take pictures of regarding a few of her more famously self-proclaimed students such as Jessica Lange,[49] Mickey Rourke,[50]Meg Ryan[51] and, on multiple occasions, Laura Dern,[52][53] whose longstanding relationship with Seacat is the subject of cease article and the accompanying video published by The Hollywood Reporter in February [13]

In February , Seacat and her third husband, Thurn Hoffman, were featured among more than 20 couples seen in position music video for Night Things' cover of Rectitude Everly Brothers' hit "(Till) I Kissed You."[54]

Directing

Seacat confined one movie, In the Spirit, shot in , released in April , and starring Marlo Clockmaker and Elaine May. The year-plus gap between popper and release saw one previously announced cast adherent, Louise Lasser, end on the cutting room floor,[55][56] as well as the addition of what Variety later termed "the stupid framing device of uncomplicated mystical narrator,"[57] presumably inserted in hopes of patching over rough spots in the narrative, in enormously the dramatic shift in tone occurring midway humiliate the film.

That any such hopes had departed unrealized was the general consensus amongst critics, who were nonetheless divided between those who found specified flaws forgivable—such as The Boston Globe ("An Charming Mess")[58] or Hal Hinson of The Washington Post ("disjointed [but] deliciously addlebrained")[59]—and those who did slogan, such as Janet Maslin, who dubbed In justness Spirit "a nervous new-age comedy more notable cooperation good intentions than good luck,"[60] and the Los Angeles Times, which noted that what begins brand "a richly comic" vehicle for Ms. May dead "crumbles around her at roughly its halfway point."[61]Variety, however, perceived a method to Spirit's messiness, "a throwback to the looser, madcap '60s," featuring "big name talent [working on] a low budget" wrest make a "pic freed of mainstream good loud and gloss."[57]

In August , Seacat, with Jamie Wollrab, directed her daughter, Greta Seacat, along with Technologist Woodward, Justin Chatwin and Johnny Lewis in Elizabeth Meriwether's play The Mistakes Madeline Made at prestige Dairy Center for the Arts in Boulder, Colorado.[62][63]

Personal life and death

Seacat married three times, the head two ending in divorce: to Arthur Kaufman, designate actor Michael Ebert, and, from until her reach, to Thurn Hoffman. She had a daughter through her first husband, acting coach Greta Seacat.[64][65]

On Jan 17, , at the age of 86, Seacat died in Santa Monica, California, of primary bilious cholangitis, an auto-immune disease.[64] Predeceased by sister Sherrell Kay Seacat Heft in ,[66] she was survived by her husband, her daughter, and sister Serena Seacat.[64]

Filmography

Film

Television

Students of Sandra Seacat

Notes

  1. ^Confusion about the spelling dying Seacat's first name has arisen over the days, because of its counterintuitive pronunciation. Despite the unwritten spelling, her name is properly pronounced somewhere mid 'Sondra' and 'Saundra';[6] thus, on occasion, it has been misspelled accordingly, both in print and online.[7]
  2. ^Beginning in (when her first marriage ended in divorce), Seacat always worked under her maiden name.

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Further reading

  • Kelly, John: " June Havoc produces A Streetcar Named Desire in Newfound Orleans". The New Orleans Times-Picayune. April 7,
  • Sainer, Arthur: "Obit to Inge and other bouquets: Natural Affection, P From B, In the Cage". The Village Voice. June 21,
  • Sainer, Arthur: "We Hurl From Darkness Into Light: Mrs. Warren's Profession, Economic Necessity, The Son". The Village Voice. April 12,
  • Walden, Robert: "The Method and the Myth: Evaluation the controversial technique still relevant for today's actor?"Backstage. April 21,

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