Sanford Meisner on Acting

Sanford Meisner was one of the best known and beloved teachers of acting in the country. This audiobook follows one of his acting classes for fifteen months, beginning with the most rudimentary exercises and ending with affecting and polished scenes from contemporary American plays. Written in collaboration with Dennis Longwell, it is essential listening for beginning and professional actors alike. Throughout this audiobook Meisner is a delight—always empathizing with his students and urging them onward, provoking emotion, laughter, and growing technical mastery from his charges.

With an introduction by Sydney Pollack, director of Out of Africa and Tootsie, who worked with Meisner for five years.

"This book should be read by anyone who wants to act or even appreciate what acting involves. Like Meisner's way of teaching, it is the straight goods."—Arthur Miller

"If there is a key to good acting, this one is it, above all others. Actors, young and not so young, will find inspiration and excitement in this book."—Gregory Peck


Read by Jason Culp, Arthur Morey, and Mark Bramhall

It's a live class with Meisner!

It takes you there. I just finished listening to this and I feel as if I went to class with San in person. I took Meisner class in NYCDA first year out of highscool and this book took me back to my roots. The reader did an amazing job translating the message and differiantiating characters to perfection. Great listen to open up your acting mind and lay a solid foundation with a technique to prep you for any character work. I highly recommend it!

New Actors

Even for my newbie self, this is inviting and still structured enough for me. Wonderful

Surprisingly outstanding as an audiobook

I didn't realize that the book is largely the story of one of Meisner's classes told as dialogue with specific examples. The effect was stunning. One suggestion, however: don't listen to it all at once, otherwise you're essentially digesting a year-long course for professional actors in a matter of weeks/days. I would say take a chapter a week. I definitely spaced out and didn't get the full benefit in that sense. But seriously. Give it a listen.

Just like Sandy teaching you himself!!

This was a great book, mainly due to the fact that it was the first I’ve ever read of its kind! I love the way in which it reads out the dialogues of the actual classes themselves and in this format, you end up learning a lot easier in my opinion.
GREAT BOOK 10/10 DEFINITELY GIVE IT A READ!

Love it

best audiobook on acting out there, highly suggested to anyone who wants to start acting.