Meisner Technique, Longform Training with Justin Lehmann - Expression of Interest

LONG-FORM MEISNER TECHNIQUE TRAINING - WA Actors, Register Your Interest

with Australia's Leading Meisner Technique Teacher, Justin Lehmann, Direct from Melbourne

Find truth in your performance. Stop performing. Start living truthfully in your work. Register your interest today.

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Have you been looking for a way to be truly connected in your performance every time? Imagine being able to create genuine emotion and truthful responses in the moment, not by forcing them, but by truly listening, connecting and allowing your scene partner to affect you.

The Meisner technique is a system and a step-by-step process that will build the foundation of your acting craft and a tool you can count on time and time again to create a truthful, engaging performance not sometimes but every time.

Learn to access and harness your emotions and instincts to create a truly compelling performance.

This is a rare opportunity for Western Australian actors to undertake a long-form Meisner Technique training program in Perth with Australia's leading teacher, Melbourne based, Justin Lehmann.

PROGRAM AT A GLANCE

Across six intensive weekends and approximately 72 hours of training, actors will progress from the foundations of the Meisner Technique through to applying the work to text.

• 6 intensive weekends | 6 weeks apart | Over 6 months | 2027

• 2 days | 12 hours per weekend

• 72 hours of training

• Approximate investment: $3,100 per person (TBC)

• Payment plans available

Exact dates will be confirmed once sufficient participant numbers are reached.

WHY LONG-FORM MEISNER TRAINING?

Many actors have experienced repetition or individual elements of Meisner, but fewer have had the opportunity to train through the technique as a progressive and layering system, where each stage builds on the last.

The Perth program is equivalent in length to Justin Lehmann Studio’s three-month, 72-hour Melbourne program, delivered over six intensive weekends.

WHAT CAN MEISNER DO FOR YOUR ACTING?

How would you genuinely react if the circumstances of the scene were happening to you in real life and recreate it?

How do you create a performance so truthful and connected that the audience doesn’t simply watch it, they feel it with you?

Imagine you’re playing the character, but the response is yours, your truth, your instinct, your genuine reaction to what is happening in the moment.

Meisner Technique trains actors to get out of their heads, stop overthinking, truly listen and instinctually allow their scene partner to affect them, creating a truthful response in the moment.

Rather than planning responses or manufacturing emotion, actors learn to work moment by moment with greater spontaneity, connection and instinct.

Meisner training can help develop:

• Stronger listening and connection

• Greater spontaneity and instinct

• More truthful emotional responses

• Freedom from overthinking

• Greater trust in your impulses

• The ability to stay present and connected take after take

• A tool you can rely on every time

WHO IS THIS TRAINING FOR?

New to Meisner? No previous experience is required. Learn the technique from the foundations up through a structured, progressive system.

Already trained in Meisner? Deepen your understanding, reconnect with the work and build on previous Meisner technique training.

Whether you are newer to acting or already working professionally, the focus is on strengthening your craft and developing a technique you can return to throughout your career.

THIS IS NOT A ONE-OFF WORKSHOP

This is sustained actor training designed to build the technique step by step and ultimately apply it to text.

The goal is to develop a way of working that becomes instinctive, something you can carry into auditions, self-tapes, screen work, stage work and scripted scenes.

THE PROPOSED FORMAT

Six two-day intensive weekends, approximately six weeks apart. Each weekend includes 12 hours of training—72 hours in total.

The proposed training period spans:

• January 2027
• February 2027
• March 2027
• April 2027
• May 2027
• June 2027

Exact weekend dates are to be confirmed. These months indicate the proposed training window, with weekends approximately six weeks apart. The schedule may extend into July.

There is some flexibility if you can only attend one day on some weekends. Full weekend fees apply.

EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST

We are seeking a committed group of actors interested in completing the full program.

Submitting an Expression of Interest does not require payment today and does not constitute confirmed enrolment.

The program will proceed subject to sufficient participant numbers and confirmation of dates and be invoiced at a later date.

Continued homework will be required between sessions with a scene partner to continue to hone the skill and work the Meisner muscle

Those who register will be contacted first with confirmed dates, final pricing, payment plan options and enrolment information.

If you are serious about developing your craft and want to create more truthful, connected and genuinely felt performances, register your interest below.

Places are limited. Register your interest today.

ABOUT JUSTIN LEHMANN

Justin Lehmann is a Melbourne-based actor and acting teacher and Australias leading Meisner Technique Teacher.

He trained in New York with William Esper, one of the most recognised teachers of Meisner Technique and a direct student of Sanford Meisner.

Justin now teaches long-form Meisner training in Melbourne. Following the successful Perth workshop in August 2026, the aim is to bring this same depth of training to Western Australian actors.

Learn more about Justin Lehmann