"Ned Manderino's direction of Fathers and Sons at the Actors Studio conveyed people talking believingly and realistically. There was a wonderful sense of atmosphere and pictorial moments accompanied by emotional logic."

-- Lee Strasberg

"Ned Manderino creates a naturalistic acting style by integrating his actors with an effectiveness rarely seen."

-- Los Angeles Herald Tribune review of All in One

"If good intentions count for anything anymore -- and they should, especially in an age when real accomplishment is such a rarity, then the Manderino Zephyr company deserves it."

-- Santa Monica Evening Outlook review of Five Provocative Plays

Aside from directing numerous plays, Ned directed Warren Beatty before he was discovered by either Broadway or Hollywood. Beatty created an outstanding professional stage debut under Ned's direction and private coaching during rehearsals. Beatty was the only cast member to receive applause on his exits. The play was appropriately entitled The Happiest Millionaire.

In Tokyo, at age 20, Ned worked a year as a production co-ordinator for monthly presentations at a theater duly nicknamed The Radio City Music Hall of the Far East with its lavish stage shows, spectacular scenery and a large company of Japanese dancers.

A few years later, in New Orleans, Ned co-produced a Tennessee Williams double-bill of 27 Wagons Full of Cotton, starring Maureen Stapleton, and the opera Lord Byron's Love Letters for which Williams provided the libretto.

Soon, thereafter, Ned was the co-producer at the Athens Festival for the English translation of Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound by Edith Hamilton, America's greatest classicist. It was the first time in 2,500 years of Greek history that a Greek classic was performed in English at the Acropolis.