Our Studio
Located in the heart of NYC, The Maggie Flanigan Studio was created by Maggie in 2001 to provide a unique conservatory-based acting program for talented young artists to receive the highest quality Meisner training. We are committed to the belief that acting, at its’ best, is a creative art. However, excellence can only be achieved through mastery of the actor’s craft.
Since 2001, the Studio has grown into a community of dedicated and talented teachers and serious actors working together in a challenging and supportive professional environment. More generally the Studio has also become a magnet for talented theater artists, playwrights, cinematographers, working actors/graduates and directors interested in Meisner work.
Maggie Flanigan is considered, by many professional artists in the film and theater community, to have a brilliant eye for an actor’s process and to be the clearest teacher of the Meisner technique. In fact, Maggie is considered to be one of the top acting teachers in the country.
During the past nine years Maggie has chosen and nurtured a highly professional faculty that understands the Meisner work deeply and can teach it with clarity and inspiration. Each faculty member possesses the clarity in teaching that the Meisner work demands and that Maggie inspires. All the teachers have a solid sense of truth and a passion for training actors. Because acting is hard enough as it is; we believe it is vital to provide students with faculty who can clarify all the fundamental issues of acting. Led by Maggie’s insight and commitment to hands-on, integrated training, all our teachers speak the same language and confer frequently about the progress of each student.
Your talent is important but it is not enough. The best artists in any medium have solid techniques that become second nature and serve as a bedrock for their talent. In this regard the Maggie Flanigan Studio has one of the highest reputations in the business for producing well- trained, professional actors who can craft a part. These actors also have a strong work ethic, an inviolate sense of truth and a passion for the art of acting.