David Garfield

American stage actor and teacher with sporadic film and television appearances. A native of Brooklyn, Garfield received a Ph.D. in Drama from New York University, and studied acting with master teachers Lee Strasberg, Sanford Meisner and Uta Hagen. He starred on Broadway as Motel the Tailor in "Fiddler on the Roof" and as Solomon Rothschild in "The Rothschilds". As a member of The Actors Studio for more than thirty years, he performed there in many plays and wrote the 1980 book "The Actors Studio: A Player's Place," the first definitive history of the Studio. Performing in many plays on- and off-Broadway, Garfield also began teaching, at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, Temple University, State University of New York-Purchase, the New School University, and at Brooklyn College, where he is at this writing Professor Emeritus of Theatre.