Meisner Technique

Meisner Technique for actors is quickly becoming a centrepiece for any serious actor training program. The technique is on fire… from London to Manila to Prague to Dublin to Sao Paulo to Helsinki to Amsterdam – world-wide. It has become essential study for actors. Many of the most well-known actors working today have Meisner training on their resume.

“The truth of ourselves is the root of our acting.” Sanford Meisner.

Our five day Summer Meisner Intensive we’ll layer our way, bit by bit, exercising the architecture of the “repetition exercises” set out by San-ford Meisner himself; also using the guidance of the late William Esper, arguably the finest teacher ever of Meisner’s technique. Each day we’ll warm up thoroughly, and then do some support exercises for the repeti-tion work. All actors will be assigned a scene to work on-with an em-phasis on text from contemporary, world class writers in english. Actors will be urged to do some rehearsals with partners in the off hours. Finally, In addition to the core “repetition” exercises, there will be an intro-duction to the practice of the “independent activity/knock-knock” improvisations and Meisner’s “Preparation/Daydream” technique for the actor in our last day.