Dominique De Fazio

Dominique De Fazio was a student of Lee Strasberg from 1968 – 1980.
He studied in Strasberg’s private classes in Carnegie Hall in New York and subsequently in Strasberg’s Master Classes and Acting Classes in the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute.
Dominique De Fazio was a former student and subsequent collaborator of Lee Strasberg at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute. Dominique De Fazio is a lifetime member of The Actors Studio in New York and was appointed by Mr. Strasberg to be a Moderator of the Acting Sessions of The Actors Studio.
After the historic seminar given by Lee Strasberg in Bochum, Germany in 1978, Mr. De Fazio was the first teacher to bring a systematic training in the tradition called “The Method” to Germany, Italy, France and Spain.

A NEW TEACHING
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, De Fazio entered into a period of research and productions in Germany and Italy to re-examine basic notions of “reality” “expression" “communication” and “self” in the light of his training as a Zennist and created a new System of Creative Study and Research. As an acting teacher world-renown for his new system with its roots both in Zen and Stanislavski, Mr. De Fazio was invited to lecture about his new system and to teach at the conference on Stanislavski held in Paris in 1988: Le Siècle Stanislavski. This symposium brought together the most important figures in the world that represent the
various developments of the Stanislavski tradition over the past one hundred years. From the United States, Sidney Pollack, Stellar Adler, Bobby Lewis, Ellen Burstein, and Dominique De Fazio came to lecture. Mr. De Fazio was asked to lecture at the Georges Pompidou Centre on his own evolution of the Stanislavski System, “Toward
a Poetic Theatre”. (Bouffonneries NO. 18/19, Exercise (s). “Le Siecle Stanislavski,” 1989. © Patrick Pezin, France.)
Three of these directors were invited also to conduct workshops during the symposium to demonstrate their evolution of Stanislavski. These three were Stella Adler (the
Group Theatre), Bobby Lewis (the Group Theatre and co-founder of The Actors Studio), and Dominique De Fazio (The Actors Studio and Studio De Fazio).
In 1995, Mr. De Fazio was one of seven European directors invited to participate in the Stanislavski-Brecht International Symposium held in Hannover, Germany. At this symposium, all the directors conducted workshops and presented the results of their respective workshops.
A book on this symposium was subsequently published, with twenty-eight pages dedicated to the workshop of De Fazio (Brecht & Stanislavski: und die Folgen edited by Ingrid Henschel, Klaus Hoffmann, and Florian Vaßen. Henschel Verlag Berlin, 1997).
Dominique De Fazio has taught acting, voice over, opera, screenwriting and directing to both professionals and emerging professionals in North American, Europe, and
South America. In addition to his program for active professionals, De Fazio teaches specialized courses in film acting, including “The Idiom of Film Acting,” “Acting in a
Close Up,” “Gesture and Movement in Film Acting,” and “How to Read a Screenplay" and "Prepare One’s Work as an Actor.” He has taught academic courses such as, “The
Noh Theatre and Its Implications for Actors Today” and “From Stanislavski to Today: the Development of Modern Acting.”