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Maggie's Teaching Philosophy

Acting at its best is a creative art.  A solid craft is needed for the actor to have a mastery of their acting instrument.  I have crafted a nurturing home for artists to sharpen their skills and solidify their craft.  The work at my studio is based on the Sanford Meisner Technique and my thirty year’s experience teaching this work.  I have created a conservatory-based program with a faculty hand-picked by me.  All of my teachers have their MFA in Acting and have been trained by me both as actors and teachers.

Maggie Flanigan

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The Importance of Commercial Acting Classes in New York City

The Importance Of Commercial Acting Classes in New York City (more...)
 

Commercial Acting Class – Acting and the Suffering Artist Stereotype

The Meisner method defines stereotypes as distorted views of people and their characteristics.  They do play a large role when it comes to creating a character. Despite this, actors have to ensure that they do not allow the stereotype to dominate the character. Even a simple character must go beyond the stereotype. For example, a (more...)
 

Commercial Acting Class – Developing Identities and Real Personalities

As any good commercial acting class with teach you, a successful actor must consider human emotion and nature in any and every performance. However, an actor does not need to suffer in order to successfully perform in auditions and land meaningful roles. How can an actor embrace a role and explore a stereotype without becoming (more...)
 

Commercial Acting Class – Why Actors Shouldn’t Avoid Stereotypes

Some stereotypical aspects of a character may be helpful in a performance as it will allow your audience to quickly gain at least a partial understanding of your character. Later on, the character must be given complexity or the audience will become disenchanted and bored. If the writer has written a particular character as a (more...)
 

Commercial Acting Class – Using Stereotypes as a Distortion Device

When discussing identity and stereotypes, the term that must be discussed is distortion. Regardless of whether the actor is learning commercial acting techniques or methods for other types of acting, distortion is a necessary talent. Every performance, from film to reality shows, requires that actors distort the truth. Distortion, if well executed, is actually able (more...)
 

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