Randy Farina of Old Bethpage, who was at the Cultural Arts Playhouse with her three daughters -- Nikki, 3; and Katie, 9; and Rebecca, 6, who study acting at the theater and have appeared in productions there -- admitted that taking her children to the theater "gets them out of the house and away from the TV".
James Franco is currently teaching acting at the theater.
He began acting at an amateur theater and met the producer Dore Schary, who put him in a few movies in 1947.
She attended the University of Wisconsin and studied painting at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and acting at the Goodman Theater in Chicago.
At 22, having acquired a taste for the theater and determined to make his own life far from the mills, he set off for Chicago with a few hundred dollars in savings to study acting at the Goodman Theater.
Return Engagement Blythe Danner will celebrate her 20th year acting at the Williamstown Theater Festival in Massachusetts this summer, appearing opposite Stephen Collins in "Tonight at 8 30," a collection of six one-acts by Noel Coward.
He studied acting at Southern Methodist University, whose theater program turned out the playwrights Beth Henley ("Crimes of the Heart") and Jack Heifner ("Vanities"), and at the Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts in Santa Maria, Calif., where he also wrote plays and worked with, among others, the actor Powers Boothe, who became the star of "Lone Star".
"I started acting at this youth theater, doing improv and sketch comedy," Stone said.
She graduated from McGill and received a certificate in acting at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theater in New York.
Like several other Fair Lawn students, Ms. Knitel has been studying acting at the Summer Musical Theater Conservatory at Paper Mill, a professional training camp for aspiring actors, dancers and singers, for several years.
Ms. Stepanov — an advanced placement student who spent last summer studying acting at the Lee Strasberg Theater and Film Institute in Manhattan — also has high hopes for her fellow cast members.
