Choosing the Best Summer Acting Program: Regina Marshall - Call (917) 789-1599
Channel: Maggieflaniganstudio
Date: 2018-06-02

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The Maggie Flanigan Studio is the home of one of the best Summer Acting Programs in the United States. Regina Marshall talks about why she chose the Meisner Summer Acting Program after attending other NYC acting studios. 

Q: Regina, what did you think it meant to train as an actor before you joined the Six Week Summer Intensive?

A: Before I trained here-- Well, I'm from Atlanta, we would honestly just get a script. We would not do any- right now, we're doing the activities, I wouldn't do that. We would just get a script on our first day and memorize your lines and that's it. I went to Howard University and when I got there, we didn't get a script, I was kind of frustrated because I was so used to getting a script, getting a script, getting a script. Being here, actually having Charlie and Karen verbalize it, like, "This is why you haven't received it. This is this and you have to--" There are so many steps before receiving the script, I was like, "Okay."

We actually just got our scenes last class and I'm like, "Yes." I feel like way more comfortable having a script now because it's like- now, that I don't understand it, like, "Why would you just get a script on the first day?" I don't know. Yes, before it was just there, that. I studied other [unintelligible 00:01:11] programs and I would think that it's okay, you just have to scream and get upset. It was kind of self-generated, it wasn't you literally expressing yourself and-- Let me think, really taking your partner in and really listening, you're responding, it was just, "Okay, I know I have to get upset," and I would just be upset.

Q: What happened to you during the Six Weeks Summer Intensive that changed your perspective on acting?

A: Wow. Charlie truly stretched me as an actor. I really understood the true meaning of like, "It's okay, you're enough." I didn't understand that before. I was like I had to put on a character, I had to be someone else other than myself. I really feel so embraced here, like, "You are enough," and I truly understand it now. Maybe I may understand it even more in five years and that's like, "Oh my god." Now, it's just like, "I'm enough," and whatever scene or a script that I receive, it's like, "I can just be me through that right now." I've only been here for two months in my program, but yes, that feels good.

Q: What did you learn about yourself during the Six Weeks Summer Intensive that was a surprise or that changed you?

A: I learned that I'm scared of physical contact with someone else. I also learned that more in my movement class. I don't think that I would have really understood it in my six weeks. I understood that even in small little scenes, but I see it way more now in movement. I got my six weeks as an acting part of the six weeks program, but even going now, that meant that actual program is like, "Wow, I'm discovering so much about myself and so many fears that I had about it." It's mind-blowing.

Q: You started with the Six Weeks Summer Intensive this past summer, and now you started the January class. Why did you decide to come back for the two-year program?

A: Because this feels like home, and I was actually recommended by Eric Raffin from Howard University a long time ago when I was actually at Howard. I was like, "Okay, I'll check it in the summer." At that time, I was so young and coming to New York seemed just really intimidating, but then, when I got here I went to another conservatory and it just felt so forced. Being here, I felt like, "I can just be me," like I said before, I'm enough. It's just really a very nurturing environment.

I've been to another acting studio here and I haven't been to all, but I've been to one that I was like, "I think, it would be great." With this one, I'm like, "Wow." You want to go to the class, you don't want to feel comfortable, you don't want to feel like, "Okay, whatever, I'm just like here." Every day you're like, "You have to be on it, or you'd be caught out for it."

Learn more about the Summer Acting Program and the Two-year Acting Program at the Maggie Flanigan Studio by calling the studio during open hours at 917-789-1599 or by visiting the acting classes and acting programs page on the studio website. 

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