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Deadline featured Pace University President Marvin Krislov in "James Lipton Dies: 'Inside The Actors Studio' Host Was 93"
Lipton announced his retirement from the show in 2018, timed to coincide with the show’s 2019 move from its longstanding home on Bravo to Ovation TV. The latest incarnation of Inside The Actors Studio – part of the master’s degree program at the Actors Studio Drama School of Pace University – features a rotating roster of guest hosts.
Pace University President Marvin Krislov said in a statement today, “James Lipton was a great writer and actor, a great interviewer, and, most important, a great teacher. He was a revered leader of the Actors Studio Drama School at Pace University, and we are all deeply saddened by this loss. We send our condolences to his wife, Kedakai, and we know that his legacy will live on in the generations of actors he inspired.”
Lipton served as the creator and Dean of Pace’s Actors Studio program from 1994-2004, and the Dean emeritus since 2005.
