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THE MEISNER TECHNIQUE Sanford Meisner is one of the most important and influential acting teachers of the Twentieth Century. He defined acting as doing things truthfully under imaginary circumstances. By 1930, the most respected and influential theater company in American history formed called The Group Theater assembling such luminaries as Harold Clurman, Lee Strasberg, Stella Adler, Clifford Odets, Morris Carnovsky Read more...

Andrew Wood has been teaching acting for fourteen years.  His students have appeared on acclaimed shows such as Roseanne, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Homeland,  The Office, NCIS,  The Big Bang Theory, Westworld, The Man in the High Castle, Animal Kingdom, Training Day, 13 Reasons Why and Chasing Life, among others.  He is a graduate of the MFA Directing program at the Yale School of Drama, and he has a Ph.D. from Stanford University in literature. He Read more...

Acting Classes with John Ruskin John Ruskin was Sanford Meisner’s apprentice, first studying with the master at The Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre in New York City and continuing with him in Bequia in the West Indies where Meisner had a residence. John was chosen by Meisner to become his apprentice and join the acting classes faculty of The Read more...

LOOKING FOR TEEN ACTING CLASSES IN LOS ANGELES? Teen Acting Classes in Los Angeles are for Teens and Young Adults to enjoy CREATING and LIVING the life. Whether you are new to acting or have been working for years – we have Classes that YOU WILL LOVE. Our Acting Class sizes are always small (maximum 12 people) which creates a SAFE NURTURING CREATIVE HOME where you can fully explore what it Read more...

Our job is to make our students masterful storytellers in the specific on-camera acting genres of drama, single-camera comedy, multi-camera comedy, and commercials. We do this through a combination of audition-style prepared reads, partnered scene work, cold reading, and frozen reading. All class material is pulled from network TV or feature films and chosen specifically for each student for a Read more...

Meet Patrick After a Harvard education and years of training, I was lucky enough to become a working actor in TV, Film and on Stage. Like most actors I had to take a day job. So for the last 25 years, I worked in casting.Very few teachers have worked that much on both sides of the camera. It has given Read more...

About Our Teachers Mark Stolzenberg Director of The New York Acting School for Film and Television Mark Stolzenberg, head of The New York Acting School for Film and Television, teaches many of the acting classes at the school himself.  He is also an Associate Professor at The School of Drama at The New School University in NYC. An experienced actor, Mr. Read more...

Acting Programs New York Our two-year acting conservatory is divided into two semesters: fall and spring. We also have a summer semester, which includes our Summer Acting Program as well as various Professional Actor Training Program (PATP) classes. Acting 1 begins every September (ending in early June) and January (concluding at the end of July). Acting 2 begins every September. Voice 1, Movement 1, Read more...

The William Esper Studio was established in 1965 and today ranks as one of the most respected professional actor training studios in America. The Studio is dedicated to the work of Sanford Meisner and William Esper and the proposition that acting is a creative art and true excellence in its practice may only be achieved through total mastery of technical craft. Read more...

The HB Studio is a non-profit 501 organization offering professional training in the performing arts through classes, workshops, free lectures, theater productions, theater rentals, a theater artist residency program, as well as full-time study through their International Student Program and Uta Hagen Institute. HB Studio is a school created by theater artists. We believe in a process of training that Read more...