Alice Lewisohn

American theatre director and patron who co-founded the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York's Lower East Side with her sister Irene — creating one of the most influential alternative theatres in American history, which later became the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre.

Created the institutional infrastructure for experimental theatre in America — the Neighborhood Playhouse brought European theatrical innovation (symbolism, expressionism) to American audiences and trained generations of actors through its school (Sandy Meisner developed Meisner technique there).