Practitioners[edit]

The Neighborhood Playhouse was originally founded as an off-Broadway theatre by philanthropists Alice and Irene Lewisohn in 1915. After closing in 1927, it re-opened the following year as the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre, with the addition of Rita Wallach Morgenthau. Sanford Meisner, who was one of the founding members of the Group Theatre (along with Stella Adler, Bobby Lewis, Harold Clurman, and Lee Strasberg), joined the faculty of the Neighborhood Playhouse in 1935. Over the years, he developed and refined what is now known as the Meisner Technique.[5] On October 18, 2018, the New York City Council officially recognized the 90th anniversary of the Neighborhood Playhouse, and Meisner's contributions to the school, with an official Proclamation.[11]


The William Esper Studio was founded in 1965 as a school for the performing arts in Manhattan, New York. Its founder, William "Bill" Esper (1932–2019), is occasionally referred to as the best-known of Meisner's first generation teachers.[12]

List of acting techniques

Banham, Martin, ed. 1998. The Cambridge Guide to Theatre. Cambridge: Cambridge UP.  0-521-43437-8.

ISBN

Courtney, C. C. 2000. "The Neighborhood Playhouse." In Krasner (2000b, 291-295).

Hirsch, Foster. 2000. "Actors and Acting." In Wilmeth and Bigsby (2000, 490-513).

Hodge, Alison, ed. 2000. Twentieth Century Actor Training. London and New York: Routledge.  0-415-19452-0.

ISBN

Kraner, David. 2000a. "Strasberg, Adler and Meisner: Method Acting." In Hodge (2000, 129-150).

---, ed. 2000b. Method Acting Reconsidered: Theory, Practice, Future. New York: St. Martin's P.  978-0-312-22309-0.

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Longwell, Dennis, and Sanford Meisner. 1987. Sanford Meisner on Acting. New York: Random House.  978-0-394-75059-0.

ISBN

Postlewait, Thomas. 1998. "Meisner, Sanford." In Banham (1998, 719).

Wilmeth, Don B, and Christopher Bigsby, eds. 2000. The Cambridge History of American Theatre. Vol 3. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge UP.  978-0-521-66959-7.

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Sanford Meisner

The Sanford Meisner Center