Fall Meisner Intensive Hannah Fernandez 03 - Maggie Flanigan Studio

The Meisner Intensive at Maggie Flanigan Studio teaches actors to work from the training of Sanford Meisner. In this interview, Hannah Fernandez discusses what she thought it meant to train and work as an actor before she came to the studio. Q: Hannah, what did you think it meant to train as an actor before you started the six-week Meisner Intensive at Maggie Flanigan Studio? A: What I thought it meant to train as an actor, was that I thought it was analyzing the script and bringing a character to life based on what the text requires, so doing your objectives and all those nitty-gritty things that are logical and script-heavy. I just thought it was a lot of just pretending about what was happening on the stage. Like, if the script required you to be sad, you're going to pretend to be sad. You might not be sad, but you're going to pretend to go there definitely. I thought it was very one-sided of; I'm an actor, so I act for a living, and I do that for the day. Then, I can put it to rest and leave it and do something else when I'm not an actor. It's changed since then. I feel like what it means to train as an actor in this program; I feel like Charlie has made a point to make sure that we know that training as an actor isn't just when you're acting on a stage, or on camera, it's your whole life. You have to continually be working on your body, your voice, your mental health, your physical health, just all these things. You can't just put it to rest. You have to wake up and feel like you're an actor all the time. That's hard because you have to be open in your real life always, and thinking about how you feel through the day and things. It's not so much bringing you to the tasks as much as it's bringing the functions to you, how you are during that day, and all that, which is way different than what I thought acting was before I came here. To learn more about the Meisner Intensive and professional training programs at the studio for actors, visit the registration and acting programs page on our website URL. Students who are interested in enrolling in our programs should contact the studio to arrange an interview. Call (917) 789-1599. Maggie Flanigan Studio 153 W 27th St #803 New York, New York 10001 +1 917-789-1599 www.maggieflaniganstudio.com/ goo.gl/maps/oxqqExybwL32 plus.google.com/112291205845820496849 https://flic.kr/p/2bGuuqZ