Acting’s Most Effective Training Method
Now Offered Online!
At the Terry Knickerbocker Studio, Sanford Meisner’s approach to acting is at the heart of our teaching and overall philosophical approach to actor training.
Why Study Meisner Technique?
The Meisner Technique challenges you to leave your preconceived, conventional ideas at the door and act instead with truthful, organic, and spontaneous behavior. Through this philosophy and practice, you will gain the confidence to walk into any room and consistently give a performance that is richly sourced in spontaneity and truth.
Your identity meets the craft and becomes art.
Meisner acting classes contain a core series of exercises that build upon each other in order to create rich, authentic, and compelling behavior, no matter what script an actor is working from.
The Meisner technique focuses specifically on the behavior of an actor and incorporates four main components:
Listening
Responding truthfully
Emotional availability
Imagination and Improvisation