Meisner Summer Intenisve Gibran Cantu

The Meisner Summer Intensive at Maggie Flanigan Studio is a six-week course that allows actors to experience professional actor training. In this video Gibran Cantu talks about coming to NYC for this program and his experience with the Meisner Technique. "Charlie won't pat you on the back. He will push you to see if you want to be an actor and if you are committed to it. You won't get praised for mediocre work here. I appreciate that. He is an excellent teacher." - Gibran Cantu To learn more about the Meisner Summer Intensive and the summer acting program at Maggie Flanigan Studio, visit the studio website. Students who have questions about enrollment details can call the studio at (917) 789-1599. https://flic.kr/p/2ouLq2q

Summer Acting Program - Andrel McPherson - Maggie Flanigan Studio 01

Summer Acting Program - Andrel McPherson - Maggie Flanigan Studio 01 The New York summer acting program at the Maggie Flanigan Studio includes the Six-Week Meisner Summer Intensive. The acting intensive is based on the training that Sanford Meisner created to teach professional actors. Here in this video, Andrel McPherson discusses the acting program. Q: Andrel, what did you think it meant to train as an actor before you started the Six-Week Summer Intensive at the Maggie Flanigan Studio? A: I thought it was about taking your own time to read as many plays as possible, studying other actors and then getting on stage and just figuring it out for yourself and hoping that a moment happens or you feel something by yourself. I had no idea nor did I ever imagine that it would take so much of myself to bring it out there then, which makes sense. Before you started doing work like this, you think that you're doing that and then when you start doing it, it's like, "Oh my gosh, that's a lot more work than I thought it would be." Q: Well, what do you think it means now to train? A: Making everything so personal for yourself and being able to focus tremendously on, not yourself, but what everyone else is giving you in the moment, which is hard because you're always in your head. You're trying to make sure that you're giving the best to them, but then you have to feel it and be in that moment, paying attention to every single detail which is exhausting when you're starting off this type of training. I guess just the most significant thing I've taken away from this is trying to pay attention to my point of view and how I'm feeling in a moment and how I can express that improv through whatever. Learn more about the New York Acting Program at the Maggie Flanigan studio by visiting the acting program and acting classes page on the studio website. Actors who are interested in the programs at the studio should apply online and call the studio with questions by calling (917) 789-1599. Maggie Flanigan Studio 153 W 27th St #803 New York, New York 10001 +1 917-789-1599 www.maggieflaniganstudio.com/ goo.gl/maps/oxqqExybwL32 plus.google.com/112291205845820496849 https://flic.kr/p/Rz41Ug

Summer Acting Program - Andrel McPherson - Maggie Flanigan Studio 02

Summer Acting Program - Andrel McPherson - Maggie Flanigan Studio 02 The New York summer acting program at the Maggie Flanigan Studio includes the Six-Week Meisner Summer Intensive. The acting intensive is based on the training that Sanford Meisner created to teach professional actors. Here in this video, Andrel McPherson discusses the acting program. Q: What happened throughout the six weeks that changed your perspective on acting and training? A: Charlie going off on me. It was exactly what I needed. Not because I didn't realize, I did not know that it would take that much out of me until someone was just like, "You're giving us a lot of bull, let's not do that anymore." Then there was this moment where I'm like, "Crap, but no, I want this. I want to try." Then you continue to dig deeper and deeper in yourself. That's when you find one little nugget of something, and it's like, "Okay. I see it now. I see what he was talking about." A lot of those good moments. Q: What did you learn about yourself, that was a surprise or that changed you? A: How willing I am to be open? I wasn't expecting myself to allow so much of someone else to come into me just because that's not how the world works. We're huge on trying to protect everything that we have. To know that I have it in me to pay attention and to experience what someone else is feeling and giving me was honestly just-- It's so exciting. Learn more about the New York Acting Program at the Maggie Flanigan studio by visiting the acting program and acting classes page on the studio website. Actors who are interested in the programs at the studio should apply online and call the studio with questions by calling (917) 789-1599. Maggie Flanigan Studio 153 W 27th St #803 New York, New York 10001 +1 917-789-1599 www.maggieflaniganstudio.com/ goo.gl/maps/oxqqExybwL32 plus.google.com/112291205845820496849 https://flic.kr/p/Rz41Wk

Summer Acting Program - Andrel McPherson - Maggie Flanigan Studio 03

Summer Acting Program - Andrel McPherson - Maggie Flanigan Studio 03 The New York summer acting program at the Maggie Flanigan Studio includes the Six-Week Meisner Summer Intensive. The acting intensive is based on the training that Sanford Meisner created to teach professional actors. Here in this video, Andrel McPherson discusses the acting program. Q: I know you haven't studied the Meisner technique before but now that you've just trained for the past six weeks, what do you think is the thing that you've learned that will resonate with you the most? A: Process, really and truly, knowing that there has to be one and there's just no way around it because everything else in life has a process. I don't know why I thought that I couldn't be any different. I'm so mad about myself. I've wasted so much time, but it's okay. Q: A lot of people do have that misconception about being an actor. A: Exactly. Yes, the process would be it for me. It's so exciting to know that there is one and it's working for me. It's not just something I made up on my own. It's like there is tradition behind it. There's the reasoning behind it. There's an explanation for everything as to why you should do it and why you shouldn't. It's literally like you're given a map to go out and have fun. Q: You're also a writer. How has what you've learned throughout these six weeks helped you as a writer and not just an actor? A: I don't write about what I don't care about anymore if that makes sense. It's straightforward to get caught up in writing what you think you should be writing about. If anything, I learned in Meisner that what I think I care about and what I care about are two completely different things. It's been nice to see myself be a lot rawer and honest with what I'm writing and not being so afraid to put it on the page and being comfortable with all ugly sides of myself, all pretty sides, just like every form that there is in me. Learn more about the New York Acting Program at the Maggie Flanigan studio by visiting the acting program and acting classes page on the studio website. Actors who are interested in the programs at the studio should apply online and call the studio with questions by calling (917) 789-1599. Maggie Flanigan Studio 153 W 27th St #803 New York, New York 10001 +1 917-789-1599 www.maggieflaniganstudio.com/ goo.gl/maps/oxqqExybwL32 plus.google.com/112291205845820496849 https://flic.kr/p/Rz41VD

Theatre History Class Instructor | Elliot B. Quick

Elliot B. Quick teaches theatre history classes for actors at the Maggie Flanigan studio in New York, NY. http://flic.kr/p/w7cEax

Theatre History Class Instructor | Elliot B. Quick

Elliot B. Quick teaches theatre history classes for actors at the Maggie Flanigan studio in New York, NY. http://flic.kr/p/x3jaJL