The Maggie Flanigan Meisner Intensive trains professional actors based on the work and teaching of Sanford Meisner. Q: Tashima, what did you think training as an actor before you started the six-week Meisner intensive? A: Well, to be very honest, I’m just going to discuss my introduction to the...

In this interview, Xandra Leigh Parker discusses what it has been like to study in the two year acting program at the studio. Why did you decide to enroll in a smaller, selective training program like this? I think that it’s turned out amazing. I get plenty of time...

Lianna Nielsen teaches nutrition classes for actors at the Maggie Flanigan Studio in New York. In this video blog post Lianna talks about the importance in understanding the connection between primary foods and secondary foods. One of the biggest lessons I took from my time at the Institute of...

I have found over the last decade and a half training aspiring actors in the Meisner Technique, that most students have big misconceptions about training when they first start exploring their options. There are such an array of classes, workshops, conservatories, and coaches in NYC, that if one does...