American Conservatory Theater

's original twenty-seven member acting company featured René Auberjonois, Peter Donat, Richard Dysart, Michael Learned, Ruth Kobart, Paul Shenar, Charles Siebert, Ken Ruta, and Kitty Winn among others.

founding member and stage director Edward Hastings, who revived the company's fortunes until the Geary Theater was severely damaged by the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake.

released a cast album of Perloff's production of the Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill musical Happy End, produced by LucasArts studios.

Built in 1910 and designed by Walter D. Bliss and William B. Faville in the Classical Revival and Late Victorian styles, it was previously known as the Columbia Theater.

uses the theater to present educational workshops, cabaret performances and specially commissioned new works, as well as productions connected to their M.F.A.

Successive YC directors include Candace Birk, Sharon Newman, Linda Aldrich, and Susan Stauter.

The conservatory members are also offered roles in the main stage productions, most frequently A Christmas Carol, which is performed every winter.

[9] The term sound design was introduced to the film world when Francis Ford Coppola directed a production of Private Lives at A.C.T.

for which his father, Carmine Coppola, arranged the music and Charlie Richmond was the sound designer while the final cut of the film The Godfather was being edited in 1972.