Since its inception the Studio has become nationally recognized for its artistic excellence. Staff members have included Jack Garfein (former director of the Actors Studio in Los Angeles), the legendary Stella Adler (teacher of Brando, DeNiro, and others), Harold Clurman (commonly thought of as the finest mind in American Theatre), Wendell Phillips (Group Theatre member, Actors Studio teacher/member, Broadway actor/director), and Former New York actor and recently referred by the Chronicle as the Bay Area’s best actor Robert Elross. Students at the Studios have founded many of the Bay Area’s important theatres as well as theatres and film production companies in New York and Los Angeles. The Shelton Studios is recommended by Agents, Filmmakers and Casting Directors throughout the country. Studio students have won Academy Awards, Emmy Awards, Tony Awards, Obie Awards, and countless local awards. Ms. Shelton was recently featured on a episode of Inside the Actors Studio as inspirational to former student Danny Glover’s career. She is a recipient of the Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Payne Knickerbocker Lifetime Achievement Award and recently was inducted into the San Francisco Performing Arts Library as a legend of San Francisco. Today the Shelton Studios continues to maintain its tradition
and provide the finest training in the country. Recently, Terry Zweigoff
(Director of feature films Bad Santa, Ghost World, and Crumb) attended courses
along with other major film directors. Students at the Studio gain much more
than the all too common experience of acting in front of other students;
they gain the craft of acting which lasts for life and applies to
all mediums, they gain the love of acting as an art form and they
gain the inspiration to dedicate themselves to working professionally
as actor/artists. |
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