Her primary focus is teaching an eclectic approach to the craft based on the great master teachers (Stanislavsky, The Method/Lee Strasberg, Sanford Meisner) that supports modern actors coping with today's fast-paced acting industry.
Their work has included plays by Joe Orton, Laura Wade and David Mamet, and their style is based around the teachings of American acting coach Sanford Meisner.
A graduate of Yale University, Mr. Alfieri began his professional career in New York City, where he studied with Sanford Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse.
In 1983, Sanford Meisner and his life partner James Carville founded the Meisner/Carville School of Acting on the Caribbean island of Bequia.
Shepherd studied acting with Sanford Meisner, and later went on to teach Meisner's program of acting study, the first woman to do so.
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Other approaches may include a more physical approach, following the teachings of Jerzy Grotowski and others, or may be based on the training developed by other theatre practitioners including Sanford Meisner.
She spent a year at Carnegie Tech (now part of Carnegie-Mellon University) in Pittsburgh and a summer playing in stock theater, and then came to New York to study with Lee Strasberg and Sanford Meisner.
Practical Aesthetics is an acting technique originally conceived by David Mamet and William H. Macy, based on the teachings of Stanislavsky, Sanford Meisner, and the Stoic philosopher Epictetus.
In 1985, Sanford Meisner and Jimmy Carville co-founded The Meisner/Carville School of Acting on the Island of Bequia in the West Indies They later extended the school to North Hollywood, California at The Sanford Meisner Center for the Arts a theater company that Jill Gatsby opened in honor of Sanford Meisner.
After high school, Juliana attended The Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, where she majored in Theater in the Sanford Meisner studio.