NY 3hr Meisner Introduction with Steven Ditmyer

New York 3 Hour Meisner Introduction
with Steven Ditmyer

Monday, April 28th
2025
6pm - 9pm

at AMT Theater
354 W 45th Street, NYC

(Please arrive between 5:30pm and 6pm)

Please bring something to take notes with other than a phone.

**There will be a short Reception following the event**

This 3 hour intensive offers an introduction to the Meisner Technique from internationally renowned acting coach and director Steven Ditmyer, who studied with Sanford Meisner, and a great way to get a feel for how Steven teaches ahead of his next New York Workshops coming up at the end of May, 2025.

This is an adult acting class for 18 years and older.

*Registration required

For more information about Steven, the Meisner Technique, and the upcoming workshops in New York visit:

www.meisnerinternational.com
and Meisner International on Instagram

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Words from Steven:

"The Meisner Technique was developed by Sanford Meisner at The Neighborhood Playhouse in New York City, where he taught for more than 50 years, and where I had the privilege of being one of his students 33 years ago.

In his work at the Playhouse, Meisner trained many of our most distinguished actors and directors, including Robert Duvall, Sydney Pollack, Tony Randall, Sidney Lumet, Christopher Lloyd, James Caan, Diane Keaton, Joanne Woodward, Steve McQueen, Jeff Goldblum, Allison Janney, Sandra Bullock, and many more.

The technique is based on truth. Meisner said, 'Acting is the ability to live truthfully under given imaginary circumstances.' There are many acting techniques, and the ones that are valid will help you arrive at the one ultimate truth, your truth.

The work we will do together will lead you to acting with a deep personal meaning, a wonderful simplicity and to a level of working where technique disappears and what remains, is you in your acting.

I can't wait for you to discover this work!"

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STEVEN DITMYER is an internationally renowned director and acting coach from New York City. He has worked with many great artists such as Al Pacino, Arthur Miller, Tony Randall, Alec Baldwin, Marian Seldes and Rosemary Harris among others. He graduated as an actor and later as an acting teacher from The Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre in New York where he studied with Sanford Meisner and Richard Pinter. He also studied with Uta Hagen at HB Studios and with Zoe Caldwell. Since then, Steven has been sharing his knowledge in many different cities around the world including New York, Atlanta, Amsterdam, London, Rome, Paris, Berlin, Vienna, Barcelona, Lisbon, Helsinki, Vilnius, Warsaw, Tallinn, Rio De Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Bogota, Quito and Guayaquil with Stockholm starting this Fall.

During the 2 years of interruption due to the pandemic, Steven held remote and online workshops with students from all corners of the globe.

Steven recently directed the Vienna premier of Cock by Mike Bartlett which had a sold-out run in January & February 2024 at the Off Theatre Vienna and will have another run in September, 2025- www.cockfightvienna.at. Before that he directed Al Tappers new play Bettinger's Luggage which had a 6 week run Off-Broadway at the AMT Theater in NYC. He also directed a reading of Brian Richard Mori's new play Coming Attractions produced by Dan Lauria at Theatre 555 starring Richard Masur and the Florida premiere of How to Transcend A Happy Marriage by Sarah Ruhl. Steven was the director of the "Off The Page" reading series for Tony Randall's National Actors Theatre and is the Executive Producer of the short film Hard Work directed by Julie Pacino. Steven will be directing the New York Off-Broadway revival of Richard Kalinoski's award winning play Beast On The Moon opening September 2025.

You can read more about Steven and the Meisner Technique at -

www.meisnerinternational.com