Milton Justice

Milton Justice, a renowned producer who has won both the Academy Award and Emmy Award, started his professional journey as an assistant director at the New York Shakespeare Festival. Since then, he has seamlessly transitioned between academia, film, television, and theatre. On Broadway he produced Tennessee Williams’ Vieux Carre, Off Broadway he produced Jack Heifner’s Vanities (which became the longest running play in off-Bway history and co-starred the then unknown Kathy Bates) and Das Luscitania Songspiel (written by and starring Sigourney Weaver and Christopher Durang) which was selected as one of the year’s best plays by the New York Times. Most recently he direct The Glass Menagerie for the the 30th anniversary of the Tennessee Williams Festival.

The legendary Stella Adler served as a mentor to Milton and subsequently entrusted him with the role of Artistic Director in her theater company based in Los Angeles. With the Stella Adler Company, he directed Eugene O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey Into Night (with the then unknown Mark Ruffalo), Shaw’s Misalliance, Vaclav Havel’s A Private View, Joe Orton’s Entertaining Mr. Sloane, and Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot (also starring Mark Ruffalo). The Company’s efforts were rewarded with seventeen local critics’ awards. In 1995 he was invited by New York University to teach as part of their acting program. He has also taught at Yale, Unitec in Auckland, New Zealand, given classes in London and Sydney, and was the Dean of the Institute for Creative Arts in Seoul, Korea. In 2016 Justice presented a workshop at the International Stanislavsky Symposium in Prague.

In his role as an acting teacher, he has had the opportunity to coach, teach, and direct various actors, such as Mark Ruffalo, Margo Martindale, Sean Astin, Kyra Sedgwick, Bryce Dallas Howard, Chris Carmack, Chris Messina, Maura Tierney, and Patrick Stewart.

Justice was honored with an Academy Award, an Emmy Award, and two Golden Globe nominations for his work in film and television. The film Losing Chase, produced by Kevin Bacon and starring Helen Mirren and Kyra Sedgwick, made its debut at the Sundance Film Festival. Helen Mirren’s exceptional performance in the movie won her a Golden Globe award, while the writer was honored with a Cable Ace award for their outstanding screenplay. In the fall of 2022, he directed The Glass Menagerie for the 30th Anniversary of the Tennessee Williams Festival. His book, I Don’t Need An Acting Class, was published in November of 2021 and his podcast, also called I Don’t Need An Acting Class, was recently listed at the 9th most popular entertainment podcast in history.

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