Hollywood film director and acting coach Michelle Danner coaches A-List Actors privately and on set including Henry Cavill, Gerard Butler, Abigail Breslin, Zooey Deschanel, Penelope Cruz, Andy Garcia, Salma Hayek, James Franco, Seth Macfarlane, Michelle Rodriguez, Isla Fisher, Luke Wilson,Emily Van Camp, Donald Sutherland, Kyle MacLachlan, Mireille Enos, Taryn Manning, Ryan Phillippe, Chris Rock, Enrique Murciano, Josh Bowman. Her latest film “The Bandit Hound,” is a family comedy and “Hello Herman” starring Norman Reedus (AMC’s The Walking Dead), was released on to 100 million homes across the U.S. by Warner Brothers and is available in stores.
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THE GOLDEN BOX 2-DAY ACTING INTENSIVE The Golden Box 2-Day Acting Intensive is an in-depth workshop that breaks down different acting techniques and “acting tools” that artists can draw upon to form an individual toolbox, their very own Golden Box. Michelle Danner will help you to develop your Golden Box of techniques and tools that you can use when approaching a role or a scene, whether it be for film, television, or theater. These acting techniques are based on those created by Meisner, Strasberg, Adler, Hagen, Chekhov, and Stanislavsky. Michelle Danner brings all elements of the craft together and helps actors learn how to use them, discover their creativity, and passion for the work. The class is supported by analysis and discussion from various film clips with performances by Meryl Streep, Judi Dench, Anthony Hopkins, Al Pacino, Marlon Brando, James Dean, and many others.
WHAT ACTOR’S LEARN – The Golden Box will teach actors how to get out of their head, follow their impulses, and begin to live completely in the moment. Actors will learn to access their full range of feelings and emotions at a moment’s notice by finding their own unique emotional triggers based on their imagination and personal experiences. Actors will learn how to create vivid, fleshed out, and interesting characters through this intense and emotional workshop with lectures and technique exercises. Exercises will teach actors how to build provocative and complex backstories by opening up their instrument emotionally and finding triggers and psychological gestures in their work. This class has served as more than an acting seminar as past participants have discovered profound truths about themselves as artists.
WHO WILL BENEFIT – This technique is effective for actors of various skills. Actors around the world have found success studying with Michelle because she takes the emphasis off the dogmatic method and helps actors discover their own creativity.
THE CLASS FOCUSES ON ANSWERING THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS:
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Students will learn to stamp their signature on a character with unique choices. This intensive aims to create an ease of working in front of the camera and the confidence to perform and to shine in every audition. Students will participate on camera with sides from movies and TV shows from all genres of writing, ranging from drama, comedy including sitcom, romantic comedy, slapstick and dark comedy.
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Through her production company, All in Films, Michelle has produced and directed films that have featured stars such as Norman Reedus, Lou Ferrigno, Judd Nelson, Jason Alexander, and Catherine Bell.
All in Films, LLC, is an American independent movie production company founded by director, producer and award-winning acting coach Michelle Danner. It is a full-service film & entertainment studio based in Santa Monica, California, with a mission to craft quality content across all media.
www.allinfilms.com
A lovable dog named Bandit is trained to pull off bank robberies, but after a heist gone wrong he’s rescued by a single mom and her son. Shen he starts stealing cash to help his new family, Bandit sets them on a collision course with his ex-partners.
Starring CATHERINE BELL ( JAG, Bruce Almighty, Army Wives), LOU FERIGNO (The Incredible Hulk), JOE FLANIGAN (Stargate: Atlantis, 6 Bullets,The Other Sister), PAUL SORVINO (Goodfellas, Romeo + Juliet, Repo! The Genetic Opera), BLUE GREENE (The Bandit Hound, Kids in the House TV), NICHOLAS ALEXANDER (The Bandit Hound, Uncensored Hollywood), JUDD NELSON (The Breakfast Club, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, Suddenly Susan), and VERNE TROYER ( Harry Potter and Sorcerer’s Stone, Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, Austin Powers in Goldmember)
Sixteen-year-old Herman Howards (Garret Backstrom) makes a fateful decision. He enters his suburban school and commits a terrible act of violence. Seconds before his arrest he emails his idol, infamous journalist Lax Morales (Norman Reedus), telling him, “I want to tell my story on your show.” Haunted by his own past, Morales is forced to confront the troubled teenager, now an inmate with an uncertain future in this Michelle Danner-directed film that explores how and why tragedies like this can happen in our society.
Starring NORMAN REEDUS (The Walking Dead, The Boondock Saints, Blade II), MARTHA HIGAREDA (No Manches Frida, Street Kings, Lies in Plain Sight), GARRETT BACKSTROM (The Motel Life, Hello Herman, Summer Snow), ROB ESTES (Silk Stalkings, Melrose Place, 90210), and ANDY MCPHEE (Saving Mr. Banks, Wolf Creek, Animal Kingdom).
A self-proclaimed dating expert tries to get his best friend, who lost his wife two years earlier, back into the dating scene, with disastrous results.
Starring ROB ESTES (90210, Melrose Place, Silk Stalkings), KIMBERLY WILLIAMS (According to Jim, Father of the Bride, Father of the Bride Part II), ALISON EASTWOOD (Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, Tightrope, Absolute Power), ESAI MORALES (La Bamba, NYPD Blue, Rapa Nui), RON PERLMAN (Hellboy, Hand of God, Blade II), and JASON ALEXANDER (Seinfeld, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Pretty Woman)
Michelle Danner is a world-renowned acting coach, film and stage director, author, and teacher.
It was her father, Alexander Valdez, who opened the very first William Morris Agency in Paris, France, that instilled a strong passion and work ethic in her that has stayed with her throughout her life.
Michelle has taught acting for the last 24 years and has worked with many A-List Actors privately and on set including: Chris Rock, Gerard Butler, Seth MacFarlane, Melanie Brown, Jamie Lynn Sigler, Penelope Cruz, Verne Troyer, Grant Bowler, Kate Del Castillo, Michael Pena, Isla Fisher, Common, Jennifer Grant, Salma Hayek, Chris Martin, Brian McKnight, James Franco, Marcia Cross, Christian Slater, Catherine Bell, Zooey Deschanel, Gabrielle Union, Justin Chatwin, Jennifer Coolidge, Justine Wadell, Rob Estes, Rick Fox, Henry Cavill, Michelle Rodriguez and many others.
We have both Short and Long-Term Programs available.
MICHELLE DANNER’s LOS ANGELES ACTING SCHOOL
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