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	Sanford Meisner - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sanford Meisner (born August 31, 1905 in New York City, died February 2, 1997 in Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles, California) was an actor and a teacher of acting.
		The goal of the Meisner technique is to get actors to "live truthfully under imaginary circumstances." Built on the work of Konstantin Stanislavski, the father of the Stanislavski System and grandfather of Lee Strasberg's Method Acting, Meisner's work encourages a more specifically active, "moment-to-moment" spontaneity.
		Meisner's last acting role was as Joseph Klein in a 1995 episode of ER, "Sleepless in Chicago".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sanford_Meisner (366 words)

	Meisner technique - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sanford Meisner developed his technique while working with the Group Theater at New York City's Neighborhood Playhouse and continued its refinement for fifty years.
		Meisner students work on a series of increasingly complex exercises designed to develop an ability first to improvise, then to access an emotional life, and finally to bring the spontenaiety of improvisation and the richness of personal response to scripted text.
		The Meisner technique is sometines rounded out with more character-based, physical practices such as Michael Chekhov and with study of style, physicality, and period.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Meisner_technique (1127 words)

	Meisner Technique
		The Meisner Technique was originally developed by Sanford Meisner (1905-1997), one of the most influential acting teachers of the twentieth century.
		Meisner was one of the original members of the Group Theater along with Lee Strasberg, Stella Adler, and Harold Clurman, from 1931 until it disbanded in 1941.
		Meisner's students acted on screen and stage across the United States using what had become known as the "Meisner Technique." Meisner's technique of acting is based on Constantin Stanislavski's method of acting, but is best known for the repetition exercises Meisner developed to strengthen an actor's capacity to live truthfully under imaginary circumstances.
	www.actorsworkout.com /sanford_meisner.htm (287 words)

	Sanford Meisner Bio
		Meisner left The Playhouse in 1958 to become director of the New Talent Division of Twentieth Century Fox.
		In 1985 Meisner and James Carville co-founded The Meisner/Carville School of Acting on the Island of Bequia in the West Indies.
		Meisner, Carville, and Barter opened The Sanford Meisner Center for the Arts in March 1995, and later the school and theatre were combined to form The Sanford Meisner Center, today the only school and theatre to operate under Meisner's name.
	www.themeisnercenter.com /meisnerBio.html (595 words)

	About the Meisner Acting Technique
		In the 1930s, Sanford Meisner was an actor in the Group Theatre, the most important repertory theatre in modern American History, which spawned the major American acting teachers, and several of the most important playwrights and directors of the 20th century.
		Meisner and his fellow actor Stella Adler fell out with their director Lee Strasberg over his use of Emotional Recall, a technique in which the actor used personal emotion from his own past memories to feed the acting process.
		Meisner's work was based on the principle that acting found its most profound expression in specific behavior that came out of the actor's real human response to circumstances and other people.
	www.completeactorstraining.com /about.html (555 words)

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		Sanford Meisner (August 31, EHandler: no quick summary.
		The neighborhood playhouse is an actor training school in new york founded by sanford meisner....
		Meisner's major unique contribution to the craft of acting is his "Repetition Exercise," a training exercise for building skill in behavioral communication.
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		Sanford Meisner, one of the most influential American acting teachers of this century and for decades the director of the celebrated Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theater in Manhattan, died on Sunday at his home in Sherman Oaks, Calif. He was 91.
		Meisner, an unassuming but charismatic man who began his career as an actor and occasionally undertook directing, was one of a handful of master drama instructors.
		Sanford Meisner was born in Brooklyn on Aug. 31, 1905, into the middle-class family of Herman Meisner and the former Bertha Knoepfler.
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		Meisner taught for 56 years at the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York and co-founded the Sanford Meisner Center for the Arts.
		The "Meisner Technique," as it's known, was an evolution of the movement away from British theater and its "external" way of playing, as well as the Russian "internal" school and the "method"approach.
		Meisner's last performance at age 90 was on the NBC series ER.
	www.chron.com /content/chronicle/features/97/02/05/obit.html (216 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: Sanford Meisner
		Sanford Meisner was born and bred in New York City, the child of a Hungarian Jewish couple who made their money from selling furs.
		The young Meisner's decision to become an actor was greeted with bewilderment by his family, who did not regard acting as a suitable profession, and had expected him to work in the clothing industry.
		Meisner himself stayed with the Group Theatre until 1941, but from 1935 he was also working with the Neighbourhood Playhouse, first as teacher and then as Head of the Acting course.
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	Welcome to ActorsCraft.Com
		Meisner spent most of the intervening years in Hollywood, acting in films and serving for two years as director of the new talent division at 20th Century Fox.
		Meisner did take on acting roles occasionally throughout his career; his last performance was as a patient in an episode of the NBC series ER, when he was ninety years old.
		Meisner, Silverberg said, "would give his life-he did give his life-to help an actor get to a moment that would change his life, so that [his students] would know the difference between acting that was authentic and true, and acting that was false and pretense.
	www.actorscraft.com /evolve/goodbyesandy.html (2783 words)

	Meisner Acting Class For The Creative (Memphis Classes) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Meisner for the Creative as taught by Amber O’Daniels is an intense course based on acting techniques but expanded to fire up anyone in the creative arts.
		Sanford Meisner developed an intensive acting method that has been used for years by film and stage performers.
		Meisner for the Creative uses elements of the Sanford Meisner approach as well as ideas from the Alexander technique, improvisation, small amounts of Stanislavsky plus ideas from the book “The Power of Now” by Eckhart Tolle.
	www.sawedoff.net /meisner (743 words)

	Elizabeth Mestnik Acting Studio, EMAS - Los Angeles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Sandy Meisner appeared in twelve Group productions, including the first, The House of Connelly, and all of Clifford Odets' plays, including Waiting for Lefty, which Meisner co-directed with Odets in 1935.
		Eventually Meisner realized that if actors were ever going to achieve the goal of "living truthfully under imaginary circumstances," he would need to develop another way, one based purely on the actor's instincts and imaginations.
		Over the next ten years, Sanford Meisner developed what is now known as "The Meisner Technique".
	www.emasla.com /sanford_meisner.asp (468 words)

	Sanford Meisner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Meisner brought his world renowned two year acting program developed over 65 years at The Neighborhood Playhouse and placed it in an informal setting in North Hollywood.
		Meisner asked Martin Barter, his Assitant for 14 years and Member of the Acting Faculty of the Neighborhood Playhouse to join him in Los Angeles as co-director of the school.
		In 1994, the three opened the Sanford Meisner Center, a sixty seat theater, where graduates of the two year program could continue their training and growth by doing plays in a professional environment.
	members.aol.com /jtcarvill/meisner.htm (220 words)

	American Theater Web - Find theaters, Broadway shows, and musicals
		As passionate as ever, Meisner was determined to turn the sixty seat theater into a lively venue in which Meisner graduates would interact with other artists, producing a unique exchange of artistic ideology and succession of outstanding performances.
		Meisner passed away in 1997, but didn't leave without ensuring the future success of his creation.
		Sanford Meisner's vision for this forward-thinking venture continue to be realized more and more with each production.
	www.americantheaterweb.com /theaterdetail.asp?id=3955 (277 words)

	American Masters . Sanford Meisner \| PBS
		While still a member of the group, Meisner became the head of the acting department of New York's Neighborhood Playhouse School of Theater.
		For Meisner, acting was about reproducing honest emotional human reactions.
		Meisner explained that his approach was designed "to eliminate all intellectuality from the actor's instrument and to make him a spontaneous responder to where he is, what is happening to him, what is being done to him."
	www.pbs.org /wnet/americanmasters/database/meisner_s.html (475 words)

	MTV Movies \| Sanford Meisner \| Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Though an actor whose long career included appearances on stage, screen, and television, Sanford Meisner is best known in the entertainment industry as a drama teacher whose distinguished pupils have included Steve McQueen, Diane Keaton, Joel Grey, Maureen Stapleton, Tony Randall, Joanne Woodward, and filmmaker Sydney Pollack.
		Meisner moved to Hollywood in 1959 to direct the talent division at 20th Century Fox until 1961.
		In 1995, Meisner, James Carville, and Barter founded the Sanford Meisner Center for the Arts in North Hollywood.
	www.mtv.com /movies/person/42568/bio.jhtml (302 words)

	Idaho Mountain Express: Vincent; I feel your pain - Jim Jarrett presents 'An evening with Stanford Meisner'
		Thus spoke Sanford Meisner, one of the world’s most respected and influential acting teachers at Playhouse West in Los Angeles before his death in 1997 at the age of 91.
		Jarrett will present "An Evening with Sanford Meisner," an evening of personal reflections and Meisner’s opinions on his days at the Group Theater, Stella Adler, Lee Strasberg, method acting and his vision of the profession in the future, at the Sun Valley Center at 7 p.m.
		Meisner had arranged a series of acting classes for 20 actors per month over a period of three months to intensely study his method.
	www.mtexpress.com /1999/01-06-99/jim.htm (994 words)

	PerformInk Online
		Meisner considered his technique to be non-intellectual approach to truthful acting, and based on the number of Chicago theatres and schools currently offering Meisner (or "Meisner-based") classes, it works for many actors.
		In 1931, Meisner was a charter member of the Group Theatre, modeled on the Moscow Art Theatre (MAT) which had toured to New York in the early 1920s with realistic, ensemble productions.
		Calandra and Vorbach were among the Chicago actors exposed to Meisner in the late ’70s and early ’80s by, among others, Edward K. Martin, whom Meisner trained to teach his exercises.
	www.performink.com /Archives/specialissues/MeisnerTraining.html (1118 words)

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		Sanford Meisner, the actor, director, and teacher, died February 2nd, age 91.
		By the time Meisner was 30 he had graduated from piano school at the Damrosch Institute of Music (now Juilliard), the Theater Guild School of Acting, and had cofounded with Harold Clurman the revolutionary Group Theater.
		Meisner and the Group, whose roots lay in Stanislavsky’s Moscow Arts Theater, developed techniques of acting loosely known as “the Method”.
	www.goodbyemag.com /jan97/meisner.html (638 words)

	Meisner Technique
		In addition to providing a formal technique (Meisner Workshop), Rachael draws on the culmination of all areas of her work in the Industry, moving the actor into the unique realization of his/her own personal and career goals (through the Scene and Monologue Workshop and Private Coaching Sessions).
		The course in the Meisner Technique takes students through the series of exercises which bring the actor to the recognition and direct use of instincts and emotional impulses as the force underlying truthful action.
		Rachael Adler received her training as an actor from Sanford Meisner in New York, in addition to being influenced by other distinguished teachers and coaches in New York and San Francisco.
	www.geocities.com /sfmeisner (172 words)

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	Brain Cutler's Commercial Actors Studio - History
		Sanford Meisner was a member of this legendary crew along with Lee Strasberg, Stella Adler, and Clifford Odetts.
		Meisner broke with the group over a difference of opinion with Strasberg involving the validity of many of Lee’s teaching techniques.
		He eschewed classic Meisner exercises such as “repetition” and “door and activity” in favor of the simple, powerful handling of dialogue.
	www.actorsstudio.com /history.html (396 words)

	Amazon.de: Sanford Meisner on Acting: English Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Sanford Meisner has been called "the theater's best-kept secret," and Sanford Meisner on Acting by Dennis Longwell gives some insight into what techniques the hugely influential drama teacher used in his 50-plus years of work.
		Unlike many other educators associated with "the Method," Meisner had little tolerance for self-absorption or striving after strong emotional effect, instead preaching that clarity of purpose and efficient use of the psyche are the actor's greatest tools.
		In the first scene of this play, as the story goes, she is a young girl that has an affair with a guy from the same village, and she has a child by him.
	www.amazon.de /exec/obidos/ASIN/0394750594 (1513 words)

	Amazon.com: The Sanford Meisner Approach: An Actors Workbook (A Career Development Book): Books: Larry Silverberg (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Sanford Meisner, one of the founding members of The Group Theater in 1931, found fault with the internalized Stanislavsky approach that prevailed at the time.
		Meisner believed that by reacting to the other people on stage, an actor's performance would be more honest and, therefore, more interesting for the audience.
		Which means that those with more interest in Meisner and his place in the history of American theatrical acting will find the book at least as fascinating as will actors hoping to master Meisner's particular take on Stanislavsky-style naturalism.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1880399776?v=glance (1109 words)

	Maggie Flanigan
		Maggie Flanigan is known for her uncompromising, razor sharp instincts as the clearest teacher of the Sanford Meisner technique practicing today.
		Sanford Meisner was considered one of the greatest and most revered acting teachers of the 20th century.
		She enthusiastically endorses the Meisner training and feels her own work has been deeply enriched by close cooperation with Maggie Flanigan whose clarity and commitment she greatly admires.
	www.maggieflaniganstudio.com (4124 words)

	The Sanford Meisner Center - NoHoArtsDistrict.com
		Meisner Center in 1995, the theater great had reached his eighth decade of life.
		Meisner was determined to turn the sixty seat theater into a lively venue in which Meisner graduates would interact with other artists, producing a unique exchange of artistic
		Meisner passed away in 1997, but didn't leave without assurance from Jimmy Carville of the future success of his creation.
	www.nohoartsdistrict.com /theatreweb/Sanford_meisner_Center.htm (243 words)

	Sanford Meisner on Acting by Sanford Meisner and Sydney Pollack and Dennis Longwell : Booksamillion.com (0394750594, ...
		Sanford Meisner on Acting by Sanford Meisner and Sydney Pollack and Dennis Longwell : Booksamillion.com (0394750594, Paperback)
		This book, written in collaboration with Dennis Longwell, follows an acting class of eight men and eight women for fifteen months, beginning with the most rudimentary exercises and ending with affecting and polished scenes from contemporary American plays.
		Throughout these pages Meisner is delight--always empathizing with his students and urging them onward, provoking emotion, laughter, and growing technical mastery from his charges.
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