Elizabeth Mestnik Acting Studio

Elizabeth Mestnik Acting Studio offers classes such as Acting For Beginners, Meisner Technique, Scene Study, and Workshops and Coaching. The program also includes a 2-Year Professional Meisner Program, a 6-Week On-Camera Audition Class, an Accents and Dialects course, a Free Intro to Meisner Workshop, Fitzmaurice Voicework, a Summer Meisner Technique Intensive, Studying Shakespeare, and Sip N' Read, which is a cold staged reading of a play.

• Schedule: 6-week On-Camera Audition Class; 5-weeks Summer Meisner Technique Intensive

At the Elizabeth Mestnik Acting Studio (EMAS), the stated mission is to empower actors with a strong foundation in acting technique and a discipline that will last a lifetime. EMAS describes itself as Los Angeles’ premiere Meisner training studio and offers a traditional Meisner program that is not a hybrid, following the syllabus that Sandy Meisner developed and William Esper refined. The studio offers a comprehensive set of acting tools to support actors as they pursue their career and has a community of actors, directors, writers, and filmmakers, with classes for actors at any stage of their career. EMAS also notes community involvement through “Using Theatre to Spark Conversation: EMAS presents ‘The Fiery Furnace’ for Domestic Violence Awareness Month.”

Last updated June 22, 2026.