The intensive focuses on answers to the following questions: What makes one choice more powerful than the next? How can one deliver a raw, unforgettable acting performance? What tools in particular can be applied to film, TV and stage work? How can one develop a personal backstory from scratch and discover material for a screenplay, short, one man show, or novel? The class is supported by film clips. Included are discussion and analysis of performances by Anthony Hopkins, Al Pacino, Meryl Streep, Judi Dench, James Dean, Marlon Brando, and many others. Class exercises include building provocative, complex backstories by opening up your instrument emotionally, and finding psychological gestures and triggers to use in your work. This class serves as more than just an acting seminar, as past students have uncovered profound insights about themselves as people and artists. email [email protected] Her acting technique encompasses: Meisner, Strasberg, Adler, Hagen, Chekov, & the Stanislavsky Technique.

In the film & TV class with Michelle Danner, actors practice in front of the camera with sides from movies and TV shows ranging from comedy, sitcom, romantic comedy, slapstick, black comedy, and all genres of dramatic writing. *Playback is watched on the big screen.  Students learn to stamp their signatures on a character with unique choices.  This class aims to exercise an ease working in front of the camera and the confidence to perform and to shine in every audition. Private Coaching with Michelle Danner –To book and for more information about classes, email [email protected], attention Alexandra.

If you want to study in Los Angeles, the Michelle Danner Acting Studio also offers M1 Visa Sponsorship for students who follow the Well-rounded Actor’s Training Intensive
(Private coaching is also available!)
The Michelle Danner Acting Studio at Edgemar Center for the Arts, one of the top acting centers in Los Angeles, offers sponsorship to international students who aspire to begin, improve, or polish their acting skill set, and to expand their acting resumes. Through the M1 Visa Program, international actors are able to study & work in beautiful, world famous, Santa Monica CA! This acting school offers individual acting classes or a 6 to 12 month well-rounded actor training conservatory for actors interested in learning the craft at a more accelerated pace. The technique is diverse and encompasses the following schools of acting: Meisner, Hagen, Strasberg, Chekhov, Adler, and the Stanislavsky Technique. It also provides M-1 visa sponsorship for international actors. Our 6 to 12 month programs are an amazing opportunity to explore the acting scene in Hollywood, the entertainment capital of the world.

Michelle Danner
Michelle Danner has coached some of Hollywood’s most accomplished actors, including Chris Rock, Penelope Cruz, James Franco, Salma Hayek, Zooey Deschanel, Isla Fisher, Christian Slater and more. She has directed and acted in over 30 plays and musicals in Los Angeles and New York, and she has directed two films. “How to Go Out on a Date in Queens” stars Jason Alexander and Rob Estes, and the recently completed “Hello Herman” stars Norman Reedus. More information can be found at www.allinfilms.com

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The Michelle Danner Los Angeles Acting School’s philosophy is that artists can draw upon all different acting techniques from Meisner, Strasberg, Adler, Hagen, Chekhov, & the Stanislavsky Technique and form a toolbox of their own, their very own Golden Box.

She is a renowned acting coach and works with many A-List Actors privately as well as on set. These include James Franco, Penelope Cruz, Salma Hayek, Zooey Deschanel, Chris Rock, Gerard Butler, Seth MacFarlane, Melanie Brown, Jamie Lynn Sigler, Verne Troyer, Grant Bowler, Kate Del Castillo, Michael Pena, Catherine Bell, Gabrielle Union, Rob Estes, Rick Fox, and Michelle Rodriguez and many others.