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The Meisner Summer Acting Program at the Maggie Flanigan Studio is an intensive six-week training program for professional actors. Christine Lee, a student currently enrolled in the program, discusses with Katie the Meisner Summer Intensive, the Meisner Technique, and how the studio's community has helped her become a better actor.
Is this your first experience with the Meisner technique or some of those classes or programs you had been in before, had you studied it?
This is my first experience with the Meisner technique.
How is it different than what you expected?
There were a lot of trusts involved with the teacher. There was a strong sense of community that I wasn't feeling in my other acting classes. Just the technique, in general, was very comprehensive. It starts from one thing that seems just you don't understand, but you start to understand, the more progress you make. I think that's an enriching journey. As opposed to other things, it's just a clump, a clump here, a clump there. It's less comprehensive. It's less integral. I think something that Maggie does pushes you, and it also requires you to give something back.
Now that you're further along in training, is there something about the Meisner Intensive that resonates with you most? It could be a couple of things, but just some standout things that resonate with you as an actor and creator.
The Meisner Training revolves around listening and just taking in the other person. I feel like so many people now, even outside the acting world, they're so self-absorbed in that way that they just don't feel the need to have the capacity to just drink in the other person. Especially now in this day and age, people are so obsessed with their own needs and their wants. I think this work would be great outside of just the acting experience anyway. Sorry, what was this question again? I went on a tangent.
No, it's on track. You were talking about listening. What about the Meisner technique resonates with you as an actor or an artist-creator?
Right. Something that the Meisner technique specifically, I feel, really treasures instincts and intuition in a way that other programs or other methods don't. I feel like other techniques might be a bit more-- Technical feels like the wrong word, but it intuitively feels like a very spot-on word for Meisner. It challenges you to get information from another person in a way that isn't just technical and scientific. You have to have a very personal point of view towards them. I think that's an essential thing about the Meisner technique that many actors who haven't trained in Meisner don't have.
You mentioned why you sought more training because you felt like the other things weren't going as deep as you were looking for. What happened during the six-week Summer Intensive that led you to enroll in the two-year program? It might be more than one thing, but whatever sticks out in your mind now almost two years later.
The first thing I remember feeling very unlocked after the Summer Intensive, even though it was only six weeks. It pushed me to come to know a particular part of myself that was very jarring for me. It was such a profound experience that I've never gotten to see in my work in any other studio before. I had to do an activity, and I was a very defensive person, and I still kind of am, but the Summer Intensive brought that to light.
I didn't understand how defensive as a person was being. I was able to express profound devastation. I've learned that I have such a capacity for sadness and pain, and I loved putting that into my art. That was something I feel like stuck out to me in the Summer Intensive.
Meisner Summer Acting Program - Christine Lee Interview - Maggie Flanigan Studio (917) 789-1599
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