 In 1966, he, in collaboration with Paul Newman, created the second branch of the Actors' Studio in Los Angeles.Garfein was one of the co-founders of Hollywood Theatre Row, where in 1974 he created the Harold Clurman Theater and later the Samuel Beckett Theater.In 1974 he was the creator of the Harold Clurman Theater of which he was also the director, as well as the Samuel Beckett Theater and he opened the Actors and Directors Lab in New York, a new drama school where writer and scenarist Paul Schrader ("Taxi Driver") and Tom Schulman ("Dead Poets Society") mingled with director Phil Alden Robinson ("Field of Dreams") and actress Sissy Spacek.