When I moved to the USA, I was introduced to the Meisner Technique. I’ve been acting since I was 15 years old, first in my hometown of Lima, Peru, where I first heard of Stanislavsky. Jim is the type of mentor that builds you up from the bottom, turning you into a healthy and very well-trained world-class actor. It should be FANTASTIC! This school has changed my life not only as an actor, but as a human being as well. ‘Great’ does not give justice to this review. Yet here you are because you do want more. Instead, they put a band-aide on the holes to their foundation by taking workshops or “intensives.” So to even consider this level of training feels like they’ve somehow failed or it’s a step backwards or even worse, they don’t have time because their “career is slipping away.”

Often actors who already have training and credits lack the humility to give themselves over to this level of training. As Sanford Meisner once said, “It’s impossible to be nervous if your focus is off yourselves.”īut here’s the problem: to turn your instrument into a moment to moment, gut to gut, instinctive, impulsive machine requires time, patience and hard work.

When that happens, your nerves will go away. This is the way you’ll work all the time because you are consistently present. The Meisner Technique is all about getting you out of your head and working from your impulses, instincts, and gut – not once in a while or because you’re “having a good night.” Often the more training one has, the more one tends to be in their head.

Constantly in their head – thinking, judging, watching, criticizing.

Most working actors with wonderful training still suffer from three major roadblocks to truthful work: Even though you have previous training and credits, something is missing, and you can feel it. If you’re here reading this, it means you want more.

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