- One of the founders of the Actors' Studio, he eventually became highly critical of the "Method" because, according to Lewis, and contrary to the teachings of the great Konstantin Stanislavski (founder of "Method" acting), it came to emphasize raw emotion at the expense of basic acting techniques such as clear enunciation and, by doing this, discouraged many otherwise excellent actors from ever playing the classic authors such as William Shakespeare and Molière.
- Broadway director and famed acting teacher who made a few films.
- Like Stella Adler, he also broke with Lee Strasberg on the Stanislavski system, believing actors should develop imagination rather than use his own memory. His book "Method or Madness" comes to clarify the differences between Strasberg's method and the original Stanislavski System.
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