Sanford Meisner

As with everything on this webpage, this is an (over)simplified introduction to the ideas of experts in the field. Information here is annotated summary of information in the book Sanford Meisner On Acting. Vintage Books, 1987. And Meisner in Practice by Nick Moseley. Nick Hern books, 2012.


Sanford Meisner 1905 – 1997
amerikansk

  • sammen med Stella Adler var et medlem av The Group Theatre under Lee Strasberg
  • var influerte av Stella Adlers brudd med Method Acting – og også snudd vekk fra  “emotional memory”
  • 1935 – 1990 undervist han skuespilleteknikk på The Neighborhood Playhouse i NYC.
  • etablerte “Meisner technique”: “To live truthfully under given imaginary circumstances”
  • etablerte The Sanford Meisner Center for the Arts i 1995