Sandra Diane Seacat was an American actress, director, best known for being a formidable acting coach, putting her own spin on techniques she had learned at the Actors Studio to help actors. Before Seacat became one of the highly successful sought after acting coaches she was an actor with acting credits under the name Sandra Kaufman, she was married to Arthur Kaufman during this time period. Her acting career began after she graduated from Northwestern University and moved to New York to purs... moreSandra Diane Seacat was an American actress, director, best known for being a formidable acting coach, putting her own spin on techniques she had learned at the Actors Studio to help actors. Before Seacat became one of the highly successful sought after acting coaches she was an actor with acting credits under the name Sandra Kaufman, she was married to Arthur Kaufman during this time period. Her acting career began after she graduated from Northwestern University and moved to New York to pursue acting. She appeared in several Broadway productions like Three Sisters, A Streetcar Named Desire and Sly Fox. Seacat also had television and film roles and directed one film titled In the Spirit. Her teaching career began in the 1970s at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute, City College of New York's Leonard Davis Center for the Performing Arts, the Actors Studio where she taught privately. She pioneered the practice of dream work, in which actors study and play characters from their dreams. Seacat was credited with a number actors and actresses' breakthroughs, including those of Jessica Lange, Rachel Ward and Marlo Thomas.
