The Summer Meisner

Certificate Training Program

- July, 2027 -

For Actors & Acting Teachers

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Actor & Professor, Michael Kaplan

Completes Summer Meisner, Part One 2026

As an actor, Michael’s west coast stage credits include Sight Unseen, The Unvarnished Truth, The Substance of Fire, Castaway, Dylan, and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. His Chicago credits include Unfinished Business, The Radio Play, Pie: New Plays in Your Face, and Breaking the Code.


Michael’s Off-Broadway and regional credits include Driving Miss Daisy, Lady Chatterley’s Lover, The Night Alive, Red, Miss Julie, Intimate Apparel, Nice People Dancing to Good Country Music, The Government Inspector, Our Town, A Christmas Carol, It’s A Wonderful Life Radio Play, Those Learned Ladies; the New York City premiere of A Splintered Soul; First Maria’s Italian and American production of Hamlet at Teatro Circulo in New York City; Kansas Repertory Theatre’s 2016 summer rep of Harvey and Angel Street; as well as the American regional premieres of The History Boys, Oblomov, Ants, and God’s Ear. His television credits include Law & Order, Seinfeld, Saved by the Bell, and Unsolved Mysteries.


He received his formal training as an actor at University of North Carolina School of the Arts, Yale Drama School, American Conservatory Theatre and UCLA. He holds an MFA in Theatre Voice Pedagogy from the University of Alberta in Canada, and in 2018 was a recipient of a master’s scholarship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) of Canada.


LARRY IN VALENCIA, SPAIN

Larry just led a thrilling virtual Q&A with the students of Begoña Soler at her acting studio in Valencia, Spain. The students had the most wonderful questions! Take a look at the video and photos...

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Students Talk About Working With Larry

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Larry is "The Teachers Teacher"

Watch this video & learn why...

“Larry Silverberg is truly a Master Teacher. This work is very important. After attending the summer training programs with Larry, I was so enthusiastic that I have sent three of my faculty and I encourage other actors and teachers to take this extraordinary training program!”


Barbara MacKenzie Wood

Carnegie Mellon School of Drama
“In my 30 years of teaching, I have studied with Master Teachers from around the world. Larry is a Master Teacher of the highest caliber. Larry's teaching is nothing short of brilliant and my teaching has improved immeasurably as a result of observing him in action."

Trudie Kessler

 DePaul University Theatre School

"Plain and simply, Larry Silverberg is the most effective teacher of acting
I have ever been privileged to work with." 

Robert McDonald

Graduate, Yale School 
of Drama
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"Larry Silverberg is arguably the foremost master acting teacher of our time."   Midwest Books

Feature Film Directors from Europe Talk About Training With Larry

Brand New Book, Larry's Meisner Complete! Here's the rave review from Midwest Book Reviews...
"Larry Silverberg is arguably the foremost master acting teacher of our time. He is especially renowned for his best selling books on the Meisner Approach to acting.

In "Meisner Complete", Silverberg provides aspiring actors and acting teachers with a complete update of his previous four Meisner workbooks.


With "Meisner Complete", even the most novice of acting students can learn a lot by a simple reading, or just doing the exercises and venturing into the unknown -- the creative zone.
 
Expertly written and thoroughly 'user friendly' in organization and presentation, "Meisner Complete" is an ideal acting class curriculum textbook and especially recommended for personal, professional, community, and academic library Performing Arts collections and supplemental studies lists."