Beginning Meisner Technique

Our Beginning Meisner Technique class, which meets online twice a week on Mondays and Thursdays, is for actors who are just starting out with their acting studies or looking to delve deeper into Meisner’s technique. This intensive class is an introduction to master instructor Sanford Meisner’s approach for developing a strong acting foundation.

Meisner said that his approach to training “is based on bringing the actor back to his emotional impulses and to acting that is firmly rooted in the instinctive. It is based on the fact that all good acting comes from the heart, as it were, and that there’s no mentality to it.” Join the ranks of A-list actors who have all been trained in the Meisner Technique, including Stephen Colbert, Tom Cruise, Michelle Pfeiffer, Alec Baldwin, and Diane Keaton.

Learn the basics of this acting technique with a step-by-step approach to working on stage and screen.

You will be led through a series of structured Meisner exercises (including repetition, improvisation exercises, and corresponding scene work) that develop: 

• Open, honest listening and responding
• Heightened instincts and imagination
• Increased confidence and access to your impulses
• Organic, truthful, expressive behavior

This is a beginning level acting class and no audition is required.

Note: Please be prepared with a notebook and pen or pencil.