Elizabeth Mestnik Acting Studio

Elizabeth Mestnik Acting Studio offers acting classes that include Acting For Beginners, Meisner Technique, Scene Study, and an On-Camera Audition Class. The studio also offers workshops and private coaching, including a Free Intro to Meisner Workshop, an Accents and Dialects course, Fitzmaurice Voicework, and a 5-week 2025 Summer Meisner Technique Intensive. Students can also take part in events such as Sip N' Read: A "Cold" Staged Reading and a production of the play "The Fiery Furnace."

• Schedule: 5-week 2025 Summer Meisner Technique Intensive

At 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 notes that its acting classes have trained students from Tokyo to Madrid and from New England to New Mexico, and that it has an ongoing Sip N' Read cold staged reading event held the last Sunday of every month. As part of its community involvement, EMAS presents "The Fiery Furnace" for Domestic Violence Awareness Month, describing this as using theatre to spark conversation.

Last updated March 23, 2026.