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The Meisner technique is an approach to <a href="Acting" title="Acting">acting</a> developed by American <a href="Theatre_practitioner" title="Theatre practitioner">theatre practitioner</a> <a href="Sanford_Meisner" title="Sanford Meisner">Sanford Meisner</a>.<a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a>

The goal of the Meisner approach is for the actor to not focus on themselves and instead concentrate on the other actors in the immediate environment. To this end, some exercises for the Meisner technique are rooted in repetition so that the words are deemed insignificant compared to the underlying emotion. In the Meisner technique, there is a greater focus on the other actor as opposed to one's internal thoughts or feelings associated with the character.

The Meisner technique is different from <a href="Method_acting" title="Method acting">method acting</a> taught by <a href="Lee_Strasberg" title="Lee Strasberg">Lee Strasberg</a>, although both developed from the early teachings of <a href="Konstantin_Stanislavski" title="Konstantin Stanislavski">Konstantin Stanislavski</a>.

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Components">Components</h2></div>

Meisner training is an interdependent series of training exercises that build on one another. The more complex work supports a command of <a href="Drama" title="Drama">dramatic text</a>. Students work on a series of progressively complex exercises to develop an ability to first <a href="Improvisation" title="Improvisation">improvise</a>, then to access an emotional life, and finally to bring the spontaneity of improvisation and the richness of personal response to textual work.<a href="#cite_note-2">[2]</a> The techniques developed the behavioral strand of <a href="Konstantin_Stanislavski" title="Konstantin Stanislavski">Stanislavski's</a>. The technique is used to develop improvisation skills as well as "interpreting a script, and creating the specific physical characteristics of each character the actor played".<a href="#cite_note-About-3">[3]</a>

An example of a technique Meisner invented to train actors' responses is called the Repetition Exercise:

<blockquote>In this exercise, two actors sit across from each other and respond to each other through a repeated phrase. Initially, the phrase refers to an external physical characteristic such as "You're wearing a red shirt." As the exercise progresses, it becomes more about each other's behavior, and reflects what is going on between them in the moment, such as "You look unhappy with me right now." The way this phrase is said as it is repeated changes in meaning, tone and intensity to correspond with the behavior that each actor produces towards the other. Through this device, the actor stops thinking of what to say and do, and responds more freely and spontaneously, both physically and vocally. The exercise also eliminates line readings, since the way the actor speaks becomes coordinated with his behavioral response.<a href="#cite_note-About-3">[3]</a></blockquote>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="About_Meisner">About Meisner</h2></div>

<a href="Sanford_Meisner" title="Sanford Meisner">Sanford Meisner</a> began developing his acting technique while working with the <a href="Group_Theatre_(New_York_City)" title="Group Theatre (New York City)">Group Theatre</a> alongside <a href="Lee_Strasberg" title="Lee Strasberg">Lee Strasberg</a> and <a href="Stella_Adler" title="Stella Adler">Stella Adler</a>.<a href="#cite_note-4">[4]</a><a href="#cite_note-5">[5]</a> Over the following fifty years, he refined his approach as head of the acting program at the <a href="Neighborhood_Playhouse_School_of_the_Theatre" title="Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre">Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre</a> in <a href="New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a> and in private instruction. Throughout his career, Meisner continually revised his methodology, discarding less effective exercises and introducing new ones aimed at addressing practical challenges in actor training.<style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1224211176">

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<div style="padding-bottom: 0; padding-top: 0.5em"><cite class="left-aligned" style="">Sanford Meisner, Meisner Technique Studio<a href="#cite_note-6">[6]</a></cite></div>

</div><blockquote>In 1935, Sanford Meisner, one of the founding members of The Group Theatre (along with Stella Adler, Bobby Lewis, Harold Clurman, and Lee Strasberg), joined the faculty of The Neighborhood Playhouse. Over the years, he developed and refined what is now known as the Meisner Technique, a step-by-step procedure of self-investigation for the actor now globally recognized and among the foremost of modern acting techniques.<a href="#cite_note-neighborhoodplayhouse-7">[7]</a></blockquote>

<blockquote>Meisner believed that the study of the actor's craft was rooted in acquiring a solid organic acting technique. It was a cornerstone of his teaching that this learning process occur not in a theoretical, abstract manner, but in the practical give and take of the classroom, where as he once said, "the students struggled to learn what I struggled to teach." Through that struggle the gifted student, over time gradually begins to emerge solidly in his or her work.<a href="#cite_note-neighborhoodplayhouse-7">[7]</a></blockquote>

In 1980, a group of his alumni got together to preserve his teachings for future generations. Sydney Pollack directed a master class taught by Sanford Meisner. It was transferred to digital film in 2006.<a href="#cite_note-8">[8]</a>

Meisner set out his approach to actor training in a co-authored book that offers a fly-on-the-wall view of his teaching practice, Sanford Meisner: On Acting (1987).<a href="#cite_note-9">[9]</a> More recent historical research documents his early career as a classical pianist, studying at the precursor to the Juilliard School.<a href="#cite_note-:0-10">[10]</a> Several sources suggest that his musical training led Meisner to emphasise listening as the guiding principle for an actor throughout Meisner Technique.<a href="#cite_note-11">[11]</a><a href="#cite_note-:0-10">[10]</a> A biography published in 2017 offers insight into Meisner's later life with his partner James Carville and their adopted son Boolu.<a href="#cite_note-12">[12]</a>

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The Neighborhood Playhouse was originally founded as an off-Broadway theatre by philanthropists <a href="Alice_Lewisohn" title="Alice Lewisohn">Alice</a> and <a href="Irene_Lewisohn" title="Irene Lewisohn">Irene Lewisohn</a> in 1915. After closing in 1927, it re-opened the following year as the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre, with the addition of Rita Wallach Morgenthau. Sanford Meisner, who was one of the founding members of the Group Theatre (along with Stella Adler, Bobby Lewis, Harold Clurman, and Lee Strasberg), joined the faculty of the Neighborhood Playhouse in 1935. Over the years, he developed and refined what is now known as the Meisner Technique.<a href="#cite_note-neighborhoodplayhouse-7">[7]</a> On October 18, 2018, the New York City Council officially recognized the 90th anniversary of the Neighborhood Playhouse, and Meisner's contributions to the school, with an official Proclamation.<a href="#cite_note-13">[13]</a>

The <a href="William_Esper_Studio" title="William Esper Studio">William Esper Studio</a> was founded in 1965 as a school for the <a href="Performing_arts" title="Performing arts">performing arts</a> in <a href="Manhattan" title="Manhattan">Manhattan</a>, <a href="New_York_(state)" title="New York (state)">New York</a>. Its founder, William "Bill" Esper (1932–2019), is occasionally referred to as the best-known of Meisner's first generation teachers.<a href="#cite_note-14">[14]</a>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="List_of_Meisner-trained_actors">List of Meisner-trained actors</h2></div>

Actors who have trained in the Meisner technique include:

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<ul><li><a href="Alex_Essoe" title="Alex Essoe">Alex Essoe</a><a href="#cite_note-15">[15]</a></li>

<li><a href="Alexandra_Daddario" title="Alexandra Daddario">Alexandra Daddario</a><a href="#cite_note-16">[16]</a></li>

<li><a href="Amanda_Setton" title="Amanda Setton">Amanda Setton</a><a href="#cite_note-17">[17]</a></li>

<li><a href="Amy_Schumer" title="Amy Schumer">Amy Schumer</a><a href="#cite_note-18">[18]</a></li>

<li><a href="Carrie-Anne_Moss" title="Carrie-Anne Moss">Carrie-Anne Moss</a><a href="#cite_note-nyt-carrie-anne-moss-2021-19">[19]</a></li>

<li><a href="Chad_Willett" title="Chad Willett">Chad Willett</a><a href="#cite_note-20">[20]</a></li>

<li><a href="Chadwick_Boseman" title="Chadwick Boseman">Chadwick Boseman</a><a href="#cite_note-21">[21]</a></li>

<li><a href="Christoph_Waltz" title="Christoph Waltz">Christoph Waltz</a><a href="#cite_note-22">[22]</a></li>

<li><a href="Christopher_Meloni" title="Christopher Meloni">Christopher Meloni</a><a href="#cite_note-23">[23]</a></li>

<li><a href="Diane_Keaton" title="Diane Keaton">Diane Keaton</a><a href="#cite_note-dvorak-24">[24]</a></li>

<li><a href="Ed_Speleers" title="Ed Speleers">Ed Speleers</a><a href="#cite_note-25">[25]</a></li>

<li><a href="Grace_Kelly" title="Grace Kelly">Grace Kelly</a><a href="#cite_note-dvorak-24">[24]</a></li>

<li><a href="Griffin_Dunne" title="Griffin Dunne">Griffin Dunne</a><a href="#cite_note-26">[26]</a></li>

<li><a href="James_Gandolfini" title="James Gandolfini">James Gandolfini</a><a href="#cite_note-27">[27]</a></li>

<li><a href="Jeff_Kober" title="Jeff Kober">Jeff Kober</a><a href="#cite_note-dvorak-24">[24]</a></li>

<li><a href="Jeff_Goldblum" title="Jeff Goldblum">Jeff Goldblum</a><a href="#cite_note-dvorak-24">[24]</a></li>

<li><a href="Joakim_N%C3%A4tterqvist" title="Joakim Nätterqvist">Joakim Nätterqvist</a><a href="#cite_note-28">[28]</a></li>

<li><a href="Jon_Voight" title="Jon Voight">Jon Voight</a><a href="#cite_note-dvorak-24">[24]</a></li>

<li><a href="Karl_Urban" title="Karl Urban">Karl Urban</a><a href="#cite_note-29">[29]</a></li>

<li><a href="Keiko_Agena" title="Keiko Agena">Keiko Agena</a><a href="#cite_note-30">[30]</a><a href="#cite_note-31">[31]</a></li>

<li><a href="Maria_Pitillo" title="Maria Pitillo">Maria Pitillo</a><a href="#cite_note-32">[32]</a></li>

<li><a href="Mark_Rydell" title="Mark Rydell">Mark Rydell</a><a href="#cite_note-dvorak-24">[24]</a></li>

<li><a href="Mary_Steenburgen" title="Mary Steenburgen">Mary Steenburgen</a><a href="#cite_note-dvorak-24">[24]</a></li>

<li><a href="Michael_Par%C3%A9" title="Michael Paré">Michael Paré</a><a href="#cite_note-33">[33]</a></li>

<li><a href="Michelle_Meyrink" title="Michelle Meyrink">Michelle Meyrink</a><a href="#cite_note-34">[34]</a></li>

<li><a href="Milo_McCabe" title="Milo McCabe">Milo McCabe</a><a href="#cite_note-35">[35]</a></li>

<li><a href="Naomi_Watts" title="Naomi Watts">Naomi Watts</a><a href="#cite_note-36">[36]</a></li>

<li><a href="Natasha_Negovanlis" title="Natasha Negovanlis">Natasha Negovanlis</a><a href="#cite_note-37">[37]</a></li>

<li><a href="Nawazuddin_Siddiqui" title="Nawazuddin Siddiqui">Nawazuddin Siddiqui</a><a href="#cite_note-38">[38]</a></li>

<li><a href="Pankit_Thakker" title="Pankit Thakker">Pankit Thakker</a></li>

<li><a href="N%C3%A9stor_Carbonell" title="Néstor Carbonell">Néstor Carbonell</a><a href="#cite_note-39">[39]</a></li>

<li><a href="Robert_Duvall" title="Robert Duvall">Robert Duvall</a><a href="#cite_note-dvorak-24">[24]</a></li>

<li><a href="Sam_Rockwell" title="Sam Rockwell">Sam Rockwell</a><a href="#cite_note-40">[40]</a></li>

<li><a href="Sandra_Peabody" title="Sandra Peabody">Sandra Peabody</a><a href="#cite_note-41">[41]</a></li>

<li><a href="Sebastian_Stan" title="Sebastian Stan">Sebastian Stan</a><a href="#cite_note-42">[42]</a></li>

<li><a href="Shaun_Benson" title="Shaun Benson">Shaun Benson</a><a href="#cite_note-43">[43]</a></li>

<li><a href="Sophie_Thatcher" title="Sophie Thatcher">Sophie Thatcher</a><a href="#cite_note-44">[44]</a></li>

<li><a href="Stephen_Colbert" title="Stephen Colbert">Stephen Colbert</a><a href="#cite_note-45">[45]</a></li>

<li><a href="Sydney_Pollack" title="Sydney Pollack">Sydney Pollack</a><a href="#cite_note-dvorak-24">[24]</a></li>

<li><a href="Tatiana_Maslany" title="Tatiana Maslany">Tatiana Maslany</a><a href="#cite_note-46">[46]</a></li>

<li><a href="Tom_Cruise" title="Tom Cruise">Tom Cruise</a><a href="#cite_note-dvorak-24">[24]</a></li>

<li><a href="Wil_Wheaton" title="Wil Wheaton">Wil Wheaton</a><a href="#cite_note-47">[47]</a></li></ul></div>

<ul><li><a href="List_of_acting_techniques" title="List of acting techniques">List of acting techniques</a></li></ul>

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="General_references">General references</h2></div>

<ul><li>Banham, Martin, ed. 1998. The Cambridge Guide to Theatre. Cambridge: Cambridge UP. <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <bdi>0-521-43437-8</bdi>.</li>

<li>Courtney, C. C. 2000. "The Neighborhood Playhouse." In Krasner (2000b, 291-295).</li>

<li>Hirsch, Foster. 2000. "Actors and Acting." In Wilmeth and Bigsby (2000, 490-513).</li>

<li>Hodge, Alison, ed. 2000. Twentieth Century Actor Training. London and New York: Routledge. <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <bdi>0-415-19452-0</bdi>.</li>

<li>Kraner, David. 2000a. "Strasberg, Adler and Meisner: Method Acting." In Hodge (2000, 129-150).</li>

<li>---, ed. 2000b. Method Acting Reconsidered: Theory, Practice, Future. New York: St. Martin's P. <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <bdi>978-0-312-22309-0</bdi>.</li>

<li>Longwell, Dennis, and Sanford Meisner. 1987. Sanford Meisner on Acting. New York: Random House. <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <bdi>978-0-394-75059-0</bdi>.</li>

<li>Postlewait, Thomas. 1998. "Meisner, Sanford." In Banham (1998, 719).</li>

<li>Wilmeth, Don B, and Christopher Bigsby, eds. 2000. The Cambridge History of American Theatre. Vol 3. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge UP. <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <bdi>978-0-521-66959-7</bdi>.</li></ul>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2></div>

<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0577073/">Sanford Meisner</a> at <a href="IMDb_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="IMDb (identifier)">IMDb</a></li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.themeisnercenter.com/">The Sanford Meisner Center</a></li></ul></div><div><div class="zim-footer">

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