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Shortly before her death from complications of leukemia June 11, 2007, aged 75, she had been on a lecture tour at universities.

She was a master teacher for the past 14 years in the summer program at the University of Southern Maine for the Michael Chekhov Theatre Institute, training actors and teachers of acting.

Mala Powers co-founded the National Michael Chekhov Association with teaching colleagues Wil Kilroy and Lisa Dalton, who continue to teach the curriculum developed by the trio in Maine.

Powers was the executrix of the Michael Chekhov estate and instrumental in publishing Chekhov's books On the Technique of Acting, To the Actor, and The Path of the Actor.

She also published Chekhov's audio series " On Theatre and the Art of Acting ", to which she added a 60 page study guide.

She co-narrates with Gregory Peck a documentary on Chekhov entitled " From Russia To Hollywood ".