2013 Master Teacher: Alan Alda

In 2005, Alan Alda had the rare distinction of being nominated for an Oscar (for his role in Martin Scorsese’s The Aviator), a Tony (for the Broadway revival of David Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross), and an Emmy (for his role as Arnold Vinick on The West Wing).  The same year, Mr. Alda’s memoir, Never Have Your Dog Stuffed, and Other Things I’ve Learned, became a New York Times bestseller.  Mr. Alda has earned an international reputation as an accomplished actor, writer, and director, as well as a tireless advocate for the sciences, hosting the award winning series Scientific American Frontiers on PBS for eleven years.  Perhaps best known for his iconic role as Hawkeye Pierce on the classic television series M*A*S*H, Mr. Alda also wrote and directed many of the episodes, and was inducted into the Television Hall of Fame in 1994.  On Broadway, Mr. Alda has inhabited a host of roles from the physicist Richard Feynman in the play QED to his Tony nominated turns in Glengarry Glen Ross, Neil Simon’s Jake’s Women and the musical The Apple Tree.  We were honored and thrilled to welcome Mr. Alan Alda to Ten Chimneys in July to serve as the Master Teacher for our Lunt-Fontanne Fellowship Program.