Pretty much one in the same? With some minor differences? I really need to know because I want to study Method acting and I need to find the right school in the San Fernando Valley. Were all these teachers and their schools part of the Method? Thanks all! :confused:

Maybe something that you find on the following site will be of help to you.

Another Country Productions - Diverse Voices in Theatre (Boston, MA) - Meisner Classes (http://www.anothercountry.org/meisnerclasses.html)

A quote from the same site above:


About Meisner

In the 1930's, Stella Adler, Lee Strasburg and Sanford Meisner graduated from the Group Theater. Each developed his or her own method for teaching acting, based on the work of Konstantin Stanislavsky. The Meisner approach, centered on the famous repetition exercise, teaches actors how to “live truthfully under imaginary circumstances.” Both rigorous and profoundly simple, it is a technique designed to help actors discover new levels of authenticity and true emotion. It is a necessity in film work and in truly connected theater.

You also might find something informative and helpful on the following site:

Konstantin Stanislavsky - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konstantin_Stanislavski)