Meisner Institute Teacher Scholarship Fund

We want to give artists from marginalized communities and artists from poorer countries better opportunities in the performance arts. One of the biggest challenges for these groups is to provide quality actor/director/writer education. We have already started this process at the Meisner Institute, networking with organizations and people in these communities in the USA and in 23 other countries. We have helped start training programs in the Philippines, China, Indonesia, South Africa, Egypt, Tunisia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Poland, and the UK. We are currently working with Chicano Hollywood in the USA to create similar programs in this country. We want to more actively recruit teachers from these communities and believe a scholarship fund would be the perfect vehicle to focus these recruitment efforts. We want to empower all peoples to tell their stories so that we can begin to illuminate the full human experience. We fervently believe this empowerment is one of the paths to a more peaceful world.