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Permanent Acting Studio Faculty
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Studio Director James Price
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James Price, Studio Director
James is the founding Artistic Director of The Acting Studio, Inc. and Chelsea Repertory Company. Mr. Price majored in theatre at Indiana University and worked as a professional actor before attending and graduating from the Neighborhood Playhouse, later returning as a member of the teaching staff under the tutelage of Mr. Meisner. Mr. Price has also taught acting at Trinity Rep Conservatory in Providence, RI and has worked as actor, director, teacher, and producer in regional, Off-Off Broadway, stock and college theatres. A task-master with 33 years of experience, he continues to actively train and practice with his fellow Studio associates in conjunction with Chelsea Repertory Company where he actively produces, acts and directs.
John Grabowski, Associate Director
John Grabowski (Director) is a teacher at The Acting Studio, Inc. He has been resident director of Chelsea Repertory Company since 1985. He is a graduate of Illinois State University, where he majored in theatre.
He has directed the Chelsea Repertory Company productions of Landscape of the Body (Guare); Mad Forest (Churchill); Hot L Baltimore (Wilson); Streamers (Rabe); Twelfe Night (Shakespeare); Translations (Friel); Top Girls (Churchill); Vinegar Tom (Churchill); The Incredibly Famous Willy Rivers (Metcalfe); Early Dark (Price); The Plough and the Stars (O’Casey); The Journey of the Fifth Horse (Ribman); Paradise Lost (Odets); Dark of the Moon (Berney & Richardson); The Madwoman of Chaillot (Giraudoux); The Rimers of Eldritch (Wilson); and The Lesson (Ionesco). He also wrote and directed Knoxville, 1915, adapted from James Agee's novel A Death in the Family, and The Loves of A, based on Arthur Schnitzler's The Anatole Plays for Chelsea Rep.
He recently directed Crumbs From the Table of Joy (Nottage) for Brava Company. He has also directed numerous workshop and lab productions for Chelsea Rep Lab and other small New York companies. Those productions include The Floating Session (Greenberg); Minor Eccentricities (Williams one-acts); Futz (Owens); Asian Shade (Ketron);The Actor’s Nightmare (Durang); Pitching to the Star (Margulies); Marisol (Rivera); Heat (Hauptmann); Three More Sleepless Nights (Churchill); Black Hole (Fensterman); and The Nature and Purpose of the Universe (Durang).
He also directs staged readings of new plays at The Acting Studio, Inc. and other NY theatre companies and is currently head of Chelsea Rep Lab.
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