To live truthfully under given imaginary circumstances.

Meisner Training is an interdependent series of exercises that build upon one another. The more complex work supports a command of dramatic text.

The Meisner Technique emphasizes "doing". Acting is doing. What are you doing on stage, on camera? What are you really doing?

The technique is incredibly intensive, and demands that each actor be serious, committed, and passionate.

The Meisner Technique is the foundation taught here at the Neighborhood Playhouse. Each acting teacher at the Playhouse studied directly with Sanford Meisner, and are each incredibly gifted instructors of this technique.

The passion and skill of each instructor here at the Playhouse led The Cambridge Guide to Theatre (Cambridge University Press) in its article on "Theatrical Training in the United States," to name The Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre "first among all 'professional training programs'" in the country and describes it as "among the most respected."

Take a look at our alumni page to see a selected handful of great artists who have put this technique to use.

WHERE THE MEISNER TECHNIQUE WAS BORN!
We are the home of the Mesiner Technique where the Technique was born. Sanford Meisner taught at The Playhouse for over 50 years where he developed the process and our acting teachers all trained for many years under Mr. Meisner himself.

For more information on the Mesiner Technique, we highly recommend that you read Sanford Meisner On Acting