🎬Group Theatre🎬
Meisner, along with 28 other actors, were selected by these people to form a theatre collective named: The Group Theatre.
Who are HAROLD CLURMAN, CHERYL CRAWFORD, and LEE STRASBERG?
Meisner's technique is based in the reality of _____?
What is DOING?
Meisner taught this actor who played an eccentric scientist in the hit movie franchise BACK TO THE FUTURE.
Who is CHRISTOPHER LLOYD?
Meisner went to this high school, located in Brooklyn, NY.
What is ERASUMUS HALL EDUCATIONAL CAMPUS?
Meisner's nickname, used often by close friends and family.
What is SANDY?
Meisner, along with a number of other actors in The Group Theatre, resisted Strasberg's preoccupation with this excercise.
What is AFFECTIVE MEMORY?
The goal of the Meisner technique has often been described as getting actors to do this.
What is "TO LIVE TRUTHFULLY UNDER IMAGINARY CIRCUMSTANCES"
Meinser taught this actress who played the lead role in the hit Netflix drama, BIRDBOX.
Who is SANDRA BULLOCK?
When the Great Depression hit, Meisner was pulled out of this music school to help with the family business.
What is DAMROSCH INSTITUTE OF MUSIC (NOW JULLIARD SCHOOL)?
Meisner's marriage to these two women ended in divorce.
Who are PEGGY MEREDITH AND BETTY GOOCH?
After hearing from this person that Stanislavski concentrated on a use of imagination, and a belief in the "given circumstances" of a text, Meisner began to focus on a new approach to the art of acting.
Who is STELLA ADLER?
This is an exercise that was taught by Sanford Meisner. Its purpose is to emphasize spontaneity and greater listening between actors, and to shift the actor's attention away from their own self-consciousness and onto the other actor in the exercise.
What is THE REPETITION EXERCISE?
Meisner taught this actor who often plays Donald Trump in skits on the hit NBC show, SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE (SNL).
Who is ALEC BALDWIN?
After high school, Meisner acted at at the Lower East Side's Chrystie Street Settlement House under the direction of this teacher.
What is LEE STRASBERG (Father of Method Acting)?
Sanford Meisner's parents blamed him for the death of this sibling.
What is JACOB MEISNER?
When the Group Theatre disbanded in 1940, Meisner continued as head of the acting program at this place. This is known as the birthplace of the "Meisner Technique."
What is Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre?
This acting teacher continues to teach the Meisner technique in his FPAC Acting classes at HHS.
Who is STEPHEN KAZAKOFF?
Meisner taught this actress who appeared as nerdy calculus teacher, Mrs. Norbury, in the hit movie MEAN GIRLS.
Who is TINA FEY?
Meisner received a scholarship to study at this theatrical society.
What is the THEATRE GUILD OF ACTING?
After his divorces, Meisner, who was bisexual, spent the rest of his life with his life partner whom with he founded the Meisner/Carville School of Acting on the Caribbean island of Bequia.
Who is JAMES CARVILLE?