Michelle Danner

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Michelle Danner is an acting coach at the Los Angeles acting school who specializes in various techniques of Meisner, Strasberg, Adler, Hagen, Chekhov & the Stanislavsky Technique. She is also the founding and artistic director of the Edgemar Center for the Arts a cultural arts center in Santa Monica, CA. Danner is the daughter of a former William Morris agent, and she currently works as an actor, director and acting coach.[1]

Her film directing debut, How to Go Out on a Date in Queens, won the LA Film Awards' Best Acting and Best Movie awards.[2] Michelle Danner’s 2013 film Hello Herman was supported by industry greats Steven Spielberg, Oliver Stone, Paul Haggis, and others into creating a film that catalogs the effect that peer abuse, parental neglect and the general coarsening of society has on a typical high school student.[3][4] A New York Times review of Danner's film Hello Herman found that her anti-bullying agenda freighted the movie.[5]

Danner has acted in and directed over thirty plays in L.A. and New York, with her favorite acting credit cited as the Dramalogue award-winning Tennessee Williams' The Rose Tattoo.[6][7]

Filmography

Year Film Role/Position Notes
1998 Dos Corazones Producer/Actress Film
2006 How to Go Out on a Date in Queens Director/Producer/Actress Film
2009 The Tonight Show Herself TV
2010 Death at a Funeral Acting coach Film
Father of Invention Acting coach Film
2011 Workshop Actress TV Series
2011-12 Actors Entertainment Self TV Series
2012 Hello Herman Producer/Director Film

References

  1. ↑ Kyles, Brittany (November 1, 2012). "Michelle Danner teaches amateurs and Oscar winners how to make believe". Los Angeles Magazine. Retrieved June 17, 2013. 
  2. ↑ "Michelle Danner". Metro Seeker. Retrieved June 14, 2013. 
  3. ↑ "Santa Monica's Michelle Danner Does It Again Directing Her Second Film, 'Hello Herman'". smmirror.com. Retrieved June 14, 2013. 
  4. ↑ "REVIEW Hello Herman". arkansasonline.com. Retrieved June 17, 2013. 
  5. ↑ Catsoulis, Jeannette (June 6, 2013). "So Many Culprits in a Teenage Rampage". The New York Times. Retrieved June 14, 2013. 
  6. ↑ "Interview: Director Michelle Danner ('Hello Herman')". communities.washingtontimes.com/. Retrieved June 14, 2013. 
  7. ↑ "Interview with Michelle Danner". www.mediamikes.com. Retrieved June 14, 2013. 

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