The seventh video in our ongoing series. Repetition is substituted by improvising on text. When students get to absorbed in thinking, Elizabeth points out that impulse should come first.
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3 minute Meisner Mondays: Part VI of The Repetition Exercise
The sixth video in a series of 3 minute segments of a Meisner class filmed for the LA Times. Elizabeth encourages students to act from their instincts. Activities get more and more challenging.
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3 minute Meisner Mondays: Part V of The Repetition Exercise
The fifth video in a series of 3 minute segments of a Meisner class filmed for the LA Times. Students continue with more challenging tasks while still doing the Repetition Exercise.
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3 minute Meisner Mondays: Part IV of The Repetition Exercise
The fourth video in a series of 3 minute segments of a Meisner class filmed for the LA Times. Students start doing different tasks while continuing The Repetition Exercise.
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3 minute Meisner Mondays: Part III of The Repetition Exercise
The third video in a series of 3 minute segments of a Meisner class filmed for the LA Times. Now the Repetition Exercise becomes more intense as students get more personal.
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3 minute Meisner Mondays: The Repetition Exercise Part II
The second in a series of 3 minute segments of a Meisner class filmed for the LA Times. Continuing with the Repetition Exercise, students are now instructed to incorporate a subjective point of view.
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Acting School Testimonials
What makes a great teacher?
Sharif Atkins talks about training with Elizabeth and her teachers.
I recommend EMAS because of Elizabeth. No one matches her level of insight, compassion, and ability to bring out the best in each of her students. You have to have an eye for BS as an acting teacher and she has it. She has called me on my own more than once. You also have to have an eye for the nuances of human behavior, the little itty-bitty details that take a performance from good to great.
-Sharif Atkins – actor/EMAS alum – White Collar, ER, The Preacher’s Wife
Preparing you for the Big Role
Lily Holleman on the Meisner Technique
The Meisner program prepared me to take on my first lead role in a feature film. I filmed the summer after my first year of Meisner, and the technique fit perfectly with what the script demanded. One tool that Meisner teaches that is necessary for every job, however, is truly opening up your ear to be able to hear underneath the lines. If you want to inspire and be inspired by watching your peers struggle, fail, and suddenly break through, you should study here. If you want to expand and your imagination and creativity, study here!
Lily Holleman – actor Southland, State of theUnion, UrFRENZ
A Step by Step Process
Charles Michael Davis on the skills actors need in the real world.
The Meisner Techniqe teaches you how to be honest and how to listen emotionally. The teachers at EMAS push you to expand those emotions – push you past what you think you are capable of. Like a really good coach – Elizabeth ends up being in your head even when she isn’t there. So now when I get a script or sides – I feel totally prepared.
-Charles Davis actor/EMAS alum: The Game, Switched at Birth
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“Future of Acting with Elizabeth Mestnik” web video promotion
Elizabeth Mestnik Acting Studio, a dynamic Los Angeles acting school, based in the heart of Los Angeles’ entertainment industry, announced today the “Future of Acting with Elizabeth Mestnik” promotion. Elizabeth Mestnik Acting Studio will award one lucky winner with a free admission to the Fall 2011 Acting Foundations Class (Value $530).
See our contest official page at and press release
