To stand up on the stage is to say to many people: Look at me. How can you do that without speaking the only truth you know? There is no such thing as an uncommitted actor.

She was one of the founders of The Living Theatre a radical political theatre troupe that rose to prominence in New York City and Paris during the 1950s and 60s. One worked on the pop scene in London another went to India to study traditional Indian theatre arts and the third including Malina and Beck traveled in 1971 to Brazil to tour. in the midst of the social upheavals of the late 1960s.

Judith Malina (born June 4 1926) is a German-born American theater and film actress writer and director.