MEISNER TECHNIQUE WITH WORLD RENOWNED

Meisner Technique with World Renowned On-Set Hollywood Coach Iris Klein: Game of Thrones; The Walking Dead; Arrow

8 Week Program via ZOOM
Sundays I 10:00pm – 1:00pm AEST
Commencing April 24, 2022 

• Acting Coach for CW / 2006 – Current
• Acting Coach for CBS / 2009 – Current
• Acting Coach for HBO / 2014 – Current
• Acting Coach for O-Network / 2017- Current
• Acting Coach 1989 – Current
• Apprentice under master actor trainer Janet Alhanti 1984-1990

This 8 Week Program is a fusion of contemporary acting techniques, advancing the actors knowledge and skill set to draw on in their work. It’s designed to build upon the actor’s prior experience and ability, it also gives those with no experience a solid foundation from which to work. *This Program is conducted via ZOOM, live from Los Angeles* 

We begin each class with a centering movement and meditation.

• HUMAN CONNECTION /HEART TO HEART and MOMENT TO MOMENT CONNECTION.
• IMPROVISATIONS:  Learn to be SPECIFIC in relationships, objectives, and circumstances.
• SCRIPT WORK:   Break down the material into moments and actions.

“Acting is an art form of Self Discovery.  Through each other, we discover ourselves.  When we know what affects us, the character can live in us. Every action creates a reaction which determines the point of view.  Acting is what we do about how we feel.  Acting Is doing.  Acting is living truthfully under imaginary circumstances.  Through a process of exercises that teaches the actor to trust their instincts and impulses, to be present and In the moment, the actor learns to focus and to listen and respond truthfully, developing a heightened awareness .  utilizing ones experience, imagination,  research and intelligence, the truth is revealed.” – IRIS KLEIN

IRIS KLEIN attended New College of California in San Francisco and returned to NYC where she resided for the next ten years.  The decade was filled with music on Bleeker Street, broadway, off-broadway, and just off-off.  Iris worked on the NYC stages and on films in Manhattan where she worked with and watched the likes of Coppola, Scorsese, Lumet, and Benton create and direct.  A few of those years were spent traveling the world with the Australian Broadcasting Commission, filming documentaries up and down the Amazon River and through a vast part of the world.

Iris moved to Los Angeles in 1980 to act and performed for playwright Eugene Ionesco and his wife to packed theatres under the direction of  Paul Verdier in, Ionesco’s Tales, at Stages Theatre.  She was directed by John Cassavetes in his play, A Woman of Mystery, starring Gena Rowlands, Woody Harrelson and Carol Kane at the Court Theatre.  Cassavetes‘ artistic fearlessness continues to inspire and shape her.  TV and film credits followed.  Iris directed “Conversations in Black and White,” by Pamela Galvin in off broadway’s New York City Theatre,  co-wrote and co-directed with Jim Klein festival winner, indie feature; “Three Janes,”  starring Gail O’Grady, Erika Alexander, Stephanie Romanov, Michael Murphy, John Glover, and Louis Ferreira and with Brian White, Boris Kojoe and Billy Brown.  The independent film shot in Los Angeles, Chicago and Las Vegas.  The feature won the Diamond Halo Award for Best Direction at the Angel City Film Festival in Hollywood and was honored at the RiverRun International Film Festival in North Carolina.

Iris Klein was personally trained by Master Teachers: Janet Alhanti (mother), Sanford Meisner, Stella Adler, John Cassavettes, Robert X. Modica and Joan Darling.

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