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    If you ever wanted to learn about the Meisner Technique, now's your chance!

    The 6-week Meisner Intensive

    Professional Acting Coach Scott Rogers will teach a six-week intensive workshop

    on the Meisner Technique in Film

    The class will consist of 6 sessions each with lecture / Q & As, and many exercises.

     

    About The Meisner Technique:

    At the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York, Sanford Meisner created a full-blown acting technique which would train an actor to naturally react to stimulus, in a scene. It was, and still is, one of the most systematic and complete acting techniques in the Western world. The technique is rooted in many of the principles of the Stanislavsky System of Acting and the magic "if" -- how would I feel if I really were this person in this situation?

    The Meisner Technique is a very thorough foundation of work. It teaches its students to "live truthfully under imaginary circumstances." At the Academy, we've found the Meisner Technique to be very useful for helping actors react to, and work off of other actors. We consider The Meisner Technique to be ONE very important tool in an actors tool chest.

     

    This is a unique opportunity to gain an understanding of the Meisner Technique so you can use the technique in your work. Your acting will never be the same.


    Some of the many famous actors who have studied the Meisner Technique include Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton, Jon Voight, Mary Steenburgen, David Mamet, Jeff Goldblum, Gregory Peck, Sydney Pollack, Mark Rydell, Tom Cruise, Kim Basinger, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Grace Kelly.



    When:

    January 21st - February 25th (Six Thursday sessions) at 7pm


    Where:

    The Academy of Film
    1174 Waimanu Street, Suite A
    Honolulu, HI 96814


    Cost: $195.00 for Current Academy students
    $245.00 for all others
    To reserve a space:
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    About the teacher:
    Scott Rogers served as an Acting Coach for 20th Century Fox Studios under a 3-year, exclusive contract. This past year he served as Acting Coach on the soon-to-be-released feature film Princess Ka`iulani starring Barry Pepper, Will Patton, and Q’orianka Kilcher. Scott has coached principal actors, for more than 3000 hours on the sets of motion pictures and national television shows. He has produced, cast, and/or directed more than 100 professional productions and written, directed, and produced dozens of TV commercials. He was the full-time, on-set, acting coach for the TV series North Shore and Baywatch Hawaii. His clients have included actors and series regulars on Lost, Indiana Jones & the Crystal Skull, 50 First Dates, ER, Pearl Harbor, Memoirs of a Geisha, The Rundown, Tears of the Sun, Blue Crush and Lilo & Stitch to name a few.
    In the mid-1980s Scott began to get hired by actors, studios, and production companies to Coach/Produce/Direct hundreds of working actors, including: Donna Mills (Knotts Landing), Sharon Lawrence (NYPD Blue), Steve Allen, Jayne Meadows, Pat Morita (Karate Kid), Brooke Burns (Dog Eat Dog), Dominic Purcell (Prison Break), Charles Grodin, Catherine Oxenberg, Susan Blakesley, Richard Kline, Vincent Gardenia, Charles Grodin, Florence Henderson, Robert Reed, John Astin, Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., Ted Lange (Love Boat), Denver Pyle (Dukes of Hazard), Timothy Bottoms, Tony Bennett and many others.
    Scott is a proud member of Actors Equity Association (AEA), AFTRA and SAG. He sits on the National Board of Directors of the Screen Actors Guild. He's taught acting to hundreds of actors, in classes all over the world. He has auditioned more than 15,000 actors for various productions and his students appear on TV, Film, & on Broadway.