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3 minute Meisner Mondays : Leave Yourself Alone

The fourteenth video in the series. Elizabeth talked about how fear and anger are intertwined,and how the delicate and fragile happy emotion would be popped up against. Students tried to perform su...

Charles Michael Davis – How did the Meisner Technique help develop your craft?

3 Minute Meisner Monday: Emotional Preparation in Scene Work

The fifteenth video in our 3 Minute Meisner series, our students are encouraged to express their emote their lines as a genuine reaction to their partner and the scene. This is accomplished only th...

Acting Classes for Lawyers

The cases you’ve defended are gripping in real life settings. Would you like to convey theseemotions on the big screen? Do you believe there’s a calling in professional acting? If so, thefoundatio...

An Alternative to Fight or Flight: Allowing the Human Impulse through Meisner Technique and Fitzmaurice Voicework

The body doesn’t know the difference between real life and a fully lived fantasy – Elizabeth Mestnik   Meisner is all about honoring your impulse and being true to your own point of view while ten...

Summary About Sanford Meisner

Sanford Meisner is a renowned acting coach that was born in 1905. He is credited with establishing the Meisner acting technique, which remains popular today. Here are some of Sanford Meisner’s mos...

Basics of the Meisner Technique

Great Acting Requires: Connection: You must know how to listen and give yourself permission to be affected by your acting partners and the imaginary circumstances of the scene. Focus: You must lea...

Top 20 Actors That Have Taken Acting Classes

  Meryl Streep Robert De Niro Christopher Walken Morgan Freeman Denzel Washington Tom Hanks Anthony Hopkins Al Pacino Daniel Day-Lewis Nicole Kidman Heath Ledger Emma Watson Angelina Jolie Kate W...

What You Do Between Auditions Matters… A LOT!

When actors are just starting out, there can often be a long time between auditions.  What are you supposed to do with yourself as you wait for that next opportunity?  I am here to tell you that w...

Acting Niches and Avoiding the Type Cast

We’ve seen it time and again – the public’s viewing of an actor and actress in just one niche. Is this the reason most Disney stars try their hardest to shake off  their previous image by going th...

3 Reasons Actors Train With the Meisner Technique

Learn the Fundamentals The Meisner Technique is a great place to build a foundation that you can use your entire career.  Skills like Working off your fellow actors Believing in the imaginary w...

3 Minute Meisner Monday: Working with the Given Circumstances

In this video students have added shared circumstances to the improvisation, where the person entering now has something they need from their partner. Elizabeth shows how important it is not to los...

Acting Classes for Shy People

Are you an actor at heart, but freeze in front of an audience? How about in everyday life? Areyou a regular Jane or Joe finding it hard to break out of your shell? Some of the most importantlesson...

Acting Classes for Non Actors

Many non-actors take acting classes to learn several skills of success. Acting Skill Sets: – Learn about self-expression and confidence– Improve public speech with group workshops– Learn the art o...

An Actor’s Audition Checklist

There are actually 2 phases of audition preparation.  The first is what you do BEFORE you get to the audition and the 2nd is what you do in the waiting room once you are AT the audition. When Emmy...

Introduction to the Meisner Technique

“To be an interesting actor – hell, to be an interesting human being – you must be authentic and for you to be authentic you must embrace who you really are, warts and all. Do you have any idea ho...