Actors Studio
The Actors Studio Drama School was established by the Actors Studio in 1994. From 1994 to 2005, the school was a graduate division of The New School. In 2005, the Actors Studio and The New School declined to renew their contract, and the Actors Studio soon thereafter signed a 10-year contract with Pace University, where the Actors Studio Drama School became a graduate program of the Dyson College of Arts and Sciences. Andreas Manolikakis, chair of the Actors Studio Drama School at Pace, said at the time that he had “no regrets about the departure from The New School” and saw it as a “necessary step for the protection of the philosophy of the original curriculum that was designed by the leaders of the Actors Studio.”