Sandra Seacat

Sandra Diane Seacat[lower-alpha 1] (born October 2, 1936) is an American actress, director and acting coach best known for her innovations in acting pedagogy—blending elements of Strasberg,[8] Siddha Yoga[9] and Jungian dream analysis[10]—and for a handful of coaching success stories.[11][12][8][13][14]

Sandra Seacat
Born
Sandra Diane Seacat

(1936-10-02) October 2, 1936[1]
Greensburg, Kansas, U.S.
Other namesCredited as Sandra Kaufman, her then-married name, before 1969[2]
OccupationActing teacher, actress, director
Years active1962–present
Spouse(s)Arthur I. Kaufman (1959–1968 or 1969; divorced)[3]
Michael Ebert (?–1978; divorced)[4][5]
Thurn Hoffman (?–present)
Children1

Early life and career

Seacat was the first of three daughters born to Russell Henry and Lois Marion Seacat in Greensburg, Kansas.[1][15][16] Involved in theatre from her mid-teens on,[17][18] Seacat first focused on method acting while attending Northwestern University,[19] earning her degree and relocating to New York, where she studied with Actors Studio alumnus Michael Howard and later at the Studio with its director Lee Strasberg.[18]

Seacat first attracted attention—as Sandra Kaufman, her then married name—in July 1962, in the Barnard-Columbia Summer Theater production of Somerset Maugham's The Noble Spaniard. Despite finding the play "rather silly,” Back Stage's reviewer "found particular pleasure in Sandra Kaufman's characterization."[20] She appeared once more that summer, this time under Michael Howard's direction, in the US premiere of Leonid Andreyev's The Waltz of the Dogs.[21] Amidst a generally favorable review, Back Stage reserved "bouquets" for Kaufman and 2 others,[22] while The Village Voice predicted, “Miss Kaufman’s appetizing warmth [is] destined to bring many future stages alive.”[23]

The following winter, an eventful few hours—attaining both Actors Studio membership and first-time motherhood[24]—gave rise to roughly 2 years of seeming inactivity, a notable exception being Kaufman’s Broadway debut, a small part in the Actors Studio production of Chekhov’s Three Sisters.[1][25] Her full-fledged return came on October 12, 1965, in Atlanta’s Community Playhouse (again under Howard’s direction),[21] when, having beaten out Rosemary Forsyth for the title role in Shaw’s Saint Joan,[26] Kaufman's portrayal was described by The Journal-Constitution as "a masterpiece of suave speech and faultless timing [which] enhances the lyrical quality of Shaw's lines." "Kaufman," it continues, "is both saint and genius; her portrayal leaves nothing to be desired."[27]

After resuming her studies in New York,[28] Kaufman again collaborated with her former teacher, along with Gene Hackman, Tom Aldredge and Chicago import Mina Kolb, to form the Second City Revue – a short-lived New York offshoot of the like-named Chicago-based improvisational troupe. On June 5, 1966, the ABC News series Directions '66 featured the group.[29]

Between 1968 and 1970, Seacat[lower-alpha 2] appeared in regional theater in Toronto,[19] Atlanta[30] and New Orleans.[31]

Under her married name, she lived in Sea Gate, Brooklyn.[32]

Teaching

During the 1970s, Seacat taught at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute, City College of New York's Leonard Davis Center for the Performing Arts, the Actors Studio, and she taught privately. Among her clients were Steve Railsback,[33] Lance Henriksen,[34] Christopher Reeve[35] and Mickey Rourke, who later said of his time with Seacat, "That's when everything started to click."[11]

Over the next decade, while teaching in New York and Los Angeles,[10] Seacat was credited with a number of such breakthroughs, including those of Jessica Lange,[36][37][38] Rachel Ward[39][37] and Marlo Thomas.[38][8] During this period, she also helped pioneer the practice of dream work, in which actors study and play characters from their dreams.[10] Among those studying the technique was Seacat's daughter, Greta, who went on to become an acting coach. In addition, actresses Melanie Griffith and Gina Gershon publicly credited Seacat's use of the dream method with improving their craft.[40][41]

Also attending those classes were future Songwriter's HOF inductee Desmond Child, then a self-professed "fly on the wall" alongside Lange, Rourke, Michelle Pfeiffer and others. Speaking in 2018 with Music & Musicians, he gratefully acknowledged Seacat's mentorship, noting the correlation between her early efforts at linking text to actor and Child's later knack for matching song to singer. Similarly, Child embraced Seacat's vision of the artist as a "wounded healer" and the audience "a co-creator [who] heals through that process." "As songwriters," Child concurred, "we have a sacred job to help them connect."[42]

Acting teacher Alex Cole Taylor in 2010 told Backstage that Seacat taught him compassion for his students.[43] In 2012, CNN's profile of acting coach Elizabeth Kemp coupled Seacat with Lee Strasberg as "legendary acting coaches."[44] Longtime Seacat student Laura Dern, speaking at the January 2012 Golden Globe Awards presentation, thanked "Sandra Seacat, Frank Capra, Lucille Ball, [and] everybody who's ever inspired any of us" at the conclusion of her acceptance speech for Best Actress.[45][46]

In 2012 and 2013, Seacat was a faculty member at the annual Film Forum hosted by the University of Arkansas's Winthrop Rockefeller Institute, organized by fellow Actors Studio alumnus Robert Walden.[47][48]

While Seacat has always shunned publicity, both for her own sake and that of her clients,[49] she has gone on record regarding a few of her more famously self-proclaimed students such as Jessica Lange,[50] Mickey Rourke,[51] Meg Ryan[52] and, on multiple occasions, Laura Dern,[53][54] whose longstanding relationship with Seacat is the subject of an article and the accompanying video published by The Hollywood Reporter in February 2015.[14]

In February 2018, Seacat and her husband Thurn Hoffman were featured among more than 20 couples seen in the music video for Night Things' cover of The Everly Brothers' 1959 hit "(Till) I Kissed You."[55]

Directing

Seacat has directed one movie, In the Spirit, shot in 1988, released in April 1990, and starring Marlo Thomas and Elaine May. The year-plus gap between wrap and release saw one previously announced cast member, Louise Lasser, end on the cutting room floor,[56][57] as well as the addition of what Variety later termed "the stupid framing device of a mystical narrator,"[58] presumably inserted in hopes of patching over rough spots in the narrative, in particular the dramatic shift in tone occurring midway through the film.

That any such hopes had gone unrealized was the general consensus amongst critics, who were nonetheless divided between those who found such flaws forgivable—such as The Boston Globe ("An Endearing Mess")[59] or Hal Hinson of The Washington Post ("disjointed [but] deliciously addlebrained")[60]—and those who did not, such as Janet Maslin, who dubbed In the Spirit "a nervous new-age comedy more notable for good intentions than good luck,"[61] and the Los Angeles Times, which noted that what begins as "a richly comic" vehicle for Ms. May abruptly "crumbles around her at roughly its halfway point."[62] Variety, however, perceived a method to Spirit's messiness, "a throwback to the looser, madcap '60s," featuring "big name talent [working on] a low budget" to make a "pic freed of mainstream good taste and gloss."[58]

In August 2007, Seacat, with Jamie Wollrab, directed her daughter, Greta Seacat, along with Shannon Woodward, Justin Chatwin and Johnny Lewis in Elizabeth Meriwether's play The Mistakes Madeline Made at the Dairy Center for the Arts in Boulder, Colorado.[63][64]

Filmography

Film
Year Title Role
1975Night MovesVoice
1979The RoseReporter
1980The Kidnapping of the PresidentHenrietta Cown
1980Jane Austen in ManhattanThriftshop Lady
1982FrancesDrama Teacher
1983The Golden SealGladys
1984CountryLouise Brewer
1987Promised LandMrs Rivers
1988WildfireSissy
1990In the SpiritDirector
1993Born YesterdayThanks
1994The New AgeMary Netter
1996The Destiny of Marty FineWoman on Beach
1998The Baby DanceDoreen
1999Crazy in AlabamaMeemaw
2001The WantDoctor
2001NailedSandra the Midwife
2001Daddy and ThemElbe
2003Prey for Rock & RollMother
2003In the CutCreative consultant
2003A Little CrazyDelphine
2004In the Land of Milk and MoneyMrs. Trevors
2004IllusionThe Boarding House Lady
2007FadeWoman
2007Tattered AngelLouise
2010Sympathy for DeliciousMrs. Matilda
2010You Don't Know JackJanet Adkins
2012Shale (short subject)Sheila
2012The Time BeingAnnette
2013Palo AltoTanya
2014Alex of VeniceSandra
2015The Scarecrow (short subject)Janine
2016Buster's Mal HeartPublic Access Psychic
2017The Strangeness You Feel (short subject)Jane

Television
Year Title Role
1966Directions '66 (TV series; one episode – 1966, 5 June)Not available (as Sandra Kaufman)
1976First Ladies Diaries: Edith Wilson (TV movie)Helen
1978"Fame" (Hallmark) (TV movie)Bess
1986Nobody's Child (TV movie)Barbara
1991Held Hostage: The Sis and Jerry Levin Story (TV movie)NA
1994Reunion (TV movie)NA
1999Mickey Rourke: The E! True Hollywood Story (TV documentary)Herself
2000Intimate Portrait: Laura Dern (TV series documentary)Herself
2001Biography: Jessica Lange, On Her Own Terms (TV series documentary)Herself
2008The Dark Side of Fame with Piers Morgan: Mickey Rourke (TV series documentary)Herself
2011Enlightened (TV series; two episodes – 2011, 10 and 17 October)Patricia
2013Enlightened (One episode – 2013, 27 January)Patricia

Students of Sandra Seacat

Notes
  1. Confusion about the spelling of Seacat's first name has arisen over the years, because of its counterintuitive pronunciation. Despite the conventional spelling, her name is properly pronounced somewhere between 'Sondra' and 'Saundra';[6] thus, on occasion, it has been misspelled accordingly, both in print and online.[7]
  2. Starting in 1968 (when her first marriage ended in divorce), Seacat has always worked under her maiden name.
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