I was SO sad to see that Uta Hagen died yesterday. Hagen's brutal, braying performance of Martha in the original production of Edward Albee's "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" galvanized Broadway in the 1960s. Hagen also ran the famous HB Acting Studio.

I learned some of the basics of her techniques in my Beginning Acting classes in college. I was lucky enough to have a professor for Advanced Acting my senior year that studied with her. We specifically focused on her methods during our Shakespearean study. I remember my professor saying, "Lawren, think Hagen. Think Hagen."

She was a master.

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