Back in New York, he enrolled in acting classes in the workshop headed by Erwin Piscator at the New School for Social Research, where one of his colleagues was another Seward alumnus, Walter Matthau.

回到纽约之后，他在社会研究新学校报名参加了厄文·皮斯卡托(Erwin Piscator)主管工作室开办的表演班，这里的一位同事沃尔特·马索(Walter Matthau)也是他的苏渥校友。