Meisner Workshop

“Acting is living truthfully under imaginary circumstances.” 
Sanford Meisner

What is Meisner Technique?
The goal of Meisner’s approach is for the actor to not focus on themselves and instead focus on their fellow performers and their behavior, allowing the actor to be spontaneous, react instinctively, and respond to live moments as well as rehearsed situations.
Meisner uses improvisation and repetition exercises to develop students’ observation and instinctual skills, with words being considered insignificant compared to the underlying emotion. Repetition takes actors out of their heads so they can trust their organic instincts. Sanfor Meisner taught that these authentic instincts, as triggered by another person in the live moment, capture realistic human behavior.
The Meisner Technique is based on listening, an essential tool for actors to be in the moment, react with their whole body, and give a fresh performance each time, even in rehearsed scenes.

The Meisner Technique is a great tool for:
 - Listening
- Improvising
- Reacting honestly
- Trusting your instincts
- Realistic human behavior
- Not being self-conscious
- Delivering consistently refreshing performances

About Lucie Rossi:
Lucie trained at The Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre under C.C. Courtney and Richard Pinter from 2002 - 2004. While there, she attended workshops led by Jeff Goldblum and F. Murray Abraham (among others). And so far, she remains the first and the only Czech toattend and complete the course in the renowned school.
Lucie also graduated from Brooklyn College, City University of New York where she received BFA (Summa Cum Laude) in Theatre Acting in 2009.
Lucie worked as an actor and director in both the USA and United Kingdom. As an actor, she has worked extensively in theatre and film. Her stage work in the USA includes Dark of the Moon directed by C.C. Courtney, she has also appeared in Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Seagull, House of Bernarda Alba, and as Rosalia in Inner Gardens. She played the lead in Iphigenia, directed by Helen Richardson for Tiyatro Global.

In the UK, Lucie appeared as Demitrius in Titus Andronicus, Jana in the UK premiere of Poker Face written by Petr Kolečko, Emilia in Histra for Mapped Productions and Tatyana in Rostov.
She worked as an actor in many productions for GI60 (both in the USA and the UK). She also wrote plays for the company and one of them, Writer´s Block appeared in One Minute Plays written by Rose Bonczek and published by Routledge. 
Her film work includes Narrator in Father Lucifer, Her in Loss and various voices in Interlude in Prague directed by John Stephenson. She also appeared in the comedy series Brunching Britain as the resident mystic, Myrtle.

The film that she shot during the lockdown Milk of Human Kindness directed by David Javid Zaydov won an award in the Tokyo Short Film Festival in 2022.

She also found time to provide the voices for various products and web series for Fisher Price both in the UK and the Czech Republic.
In 2012, Lucie founded ALM Productions (then known as Purple Hibiscus) with her partner Marco Rossi. Their first production was a faithful adaptation of Pinocchio where she played the title character. This was followed by two short films, Dogs and Black Hair. She next produced and appeared as the title character in an all-female version of Hamlet at the Space theatre in London UK. From here, she was chosen to be one of ten actors to play the role at the Globe for Shakespeare’s Birthday Celebration. 
Under the banner of ALM Productions Lucie has continued to produce films, most recently Angular Momentum and Červená Krev (Unwanted) and has held lessons in Meisner technique in the Czech Republic and internationally.