Sanford Meisner and the Acting Teacher's Wisdom
“It takes twenty years to be a master!” ~ Sanford Meisner Perhaps that explains why the legendary New York acting teacher, and creator of the Meisner Technique, waited so long to found his first and only theater. Sanford Meisner Center opened in 1995 as he reached his eighth decade of life. Born August 31, 1905 and raised in Brooklyn, New York, Sanford Meisner graduated from Erasmus Hall in 1923 and attended The Damrosch Institute of Music (now Juilliard).