Lindsay Crouse grew up in New York City, daughter of Broadway playwright Russel Crouse, who wrote such classics of the American Theater as Anything Goes, Arsenic and Old Lace, Life with Father, State of the Union, and the Sound of Music.

Lindsay received her Bachelors Degree with honors from Radcliffe College in Cambridge, Massachusetts where she founded her own dance-theater company.

Back in New York after college, she studied acting with Uta Hagen and Sanford Meisner. She has been acting for thirty five years, and teaching for eighteen.

She began her teaching career at the New England Conservatory of music, teaching principles of action and improvisation to musicians and singers. While living in Cambridge, she taught acting at the Harvard Education School.

Moving to Los Angeles in 1992, she taught in the University of Southern California’s Undergraduate Communications Department. She ran private workshops for singers and musicians with the Groundling’s founder, Gary Austin.

For several years she joined USC’s Graduate Film School faculty, creating a signature graduate course for young directors called “Take No Prisoners,” designed to help them work effectively with actors.

She has been a visiting professor at UCLA in the Musical Theater Department, and at Ball State University in the Theater and Communications Department.
For three years she was a visiting guest professor at the California College of Arts and Crafts, teaching visual artists the same principles she teaches actors, and she spent three summers in France working with painters and sculptors at CCAC’s Summer Atelier Program, teaching in both English and French.

Lindsay currently runs her own acting classes in Los Angeles. She welcomes not only actors, but singers, musicians and directors.