Episode 82 – Focusing On LA’s Top Acting Coach & Film Director Michelle Danner - Part 2
During the second half of Tony’s enlightening conversation with L.A.’s premiere acting coach and film director Michelle Danner they discuss her transition from acting coach to film director, if she came up against any discrimination when she decided to take on the directors chair, how her directorial debut “How To Go Out On A Date In Queens” why making a serious film like “Hello Herman” that tells the story of a school shooting starring Norman Reedus was so important to her, how stories with the theme of kids falling through the cracks are very important to her, what it was like working on the LGBTQ+ documentary “Sígueme”, her experience directing the psychological thriller “Bad Impulse” with Paul Sorvino & Dan Lauria, and how her latest film “Miranda’s Victim” came to her and why most Americans don’t know the true story of how the Miranda Rights - customarily given by police to criminal suspects in police custody - came about.
MICHELLE DANNER
There aren’t many people who can point to a career full of success as a performer, teacher, storyteller, entrepreneur, and expert. But Michelle Danner can.
The legendary acting teacher & founder of the Creative Center for the Arts & the Los Angeles Acting Conservatory, Danner is also now well-established as a successful film director.
Her most recent film, “Miranda’s Victim,” stars Abigail Breslin, Luke Wilson, Ryan Phillippe, Emily VanCamp, Mireille Enos, Enrique Murciano, Brent Sexton, Josh Bowman, Sebastian Quinn, Taryn Manning, Nolan Gould, Dan Lauria, Kyle MacLachlan, Andy Garcia & Donald Sutherland. The film tells the true story of Trish Weir (Breslin) who was kidnapped and brutally raped by Ernesto Miranda. The subsequent trials went all the way to the Supreme Court and led to creation of the Miranda Rights. “Miranda’s Victim” opened the Santa Barbara Film Festival in February.
Her last film “The Runner” is an action thriller and true-life coming of age story starring Cameron Douglas, Elisabeth Röhm, Eric Balfour and newcomer Edouard Philipponnat. The film screened at 28 festivals around the world winning countless awards.
A dedicated mom of two (one is an aspiring filmmaker), Danner still has her “day job” – overseeing the faculty of the Los Angeles Acting Conservatory, and conducting her weekly acting class. Michelle has worked privately with Christian Slater, Salma Hayek, Gerard Butler, Seth MacFarlane, Penelope Cruz, Chris Rock, Gabrielle Union, Zooey Deschanel, Henry Cavill, Isla Fisher and James Franco. A longtime student of legendary acting teachers like Stella Adler and Uta Hagen, Danner’s eclectic approach (which she calls “The Golden Box”) allows actors the freedom to employ a wide variety of techniques.
Raised in a show business family & with a deep appreciation for all of the performing arts, Danner also continues to run the boutique “Cinema at the Edge” film festival.
Simply put, there’s almost no one in the business who knows as much about acting and success as Michelle Danner – and her continued success in multiple creative fields makes her one of the most successful women working in the industry today.
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Michelle Danner
Acting Coach / Director
There aren’t many people who can point to a career full of success as a performer, teacher, storyteller, entrepreneur, and expert. But Michelle Danner can.
The legendary acting teacher and founder of the Creative Center for the Arts and the Los Angeles Acting Conservatory, Danner is also now well-established as a successful film director.
Her most recent film, “Miranda’s Victim,” stars Abigail Breslin, Luke Wilson, Ryan Phillippe, Emily VanCamp, Mireille Enos, Enrique Murciano, Brent Sexton, Josh Bowman, Sebastian Quinn, Taryn Manning, Nolan Gould, Dan Lauria, Kyle MacLachlan, Andy Garcia and Donald Sutherland. The film tells the true story of Trish Weir (Breslin) who was kidnapped and brutally raped by Ernesto Miranda. The subsequent trials went all the way to the Supreme Court and led to creation of the Miranda Rights. “Miranda’s Victim” opened the Santa Barbara Film Festival in February.
Her last film “The Runner” is an action thriller and true-life coming of age story starring Cameron Douglas, Elisabeth Röhm, Eric Balfour and newcomer Edouard Philipponnat as a troubled teenager forced to go undercover to expose a drug kingpin. The film screened at 28 festivals around the world winning countless awards. It was distributed by Saban Films.
A dedicated mom of two (one is an aspiring filmmaker), Danner still has her “day job” – overseeing the faculty of the Los Angeles Acting Conservatory, and conducting her weekly acting class. Michelle has worked privately with Christian Slater, Salma Hayek, Gerard Butler, Seth MacFarlane, Penelope Cruz,… Read More
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