Miranda

I think there was probably like 14 of us total.

The play used something called Meisner technique, which is what he was trained in.

He does have real accolades when it comes to this.

Yeah, I think it's really important to the story, and I think it is a really big piece in the way that he was able to groom me specifically.

Meisner is built on repetition and vulnerability.

He would always say like, you're living truthfully in imaginary circumstances, which is the whole idea of Meisner.

He took us through all of these training techniques that he had just learned.

It was like pretty fresh on the brain for him, I suppose.

My only experience in Meisner really is him.

And so I'm not certain

how much of it is actual Meisner technique and how much of it is like his version of Meisner technique.

The way that this rehearsal process went is different than any other show that I've ever done.

He started us not even with the script.

He started us with these exercises of repetition.

You sit across from your partner and you start with physical observations.

So like I would sit across from Olivia, who is my best friend.

And this is where our friendship also started because she was in this play with me.

I would sit across from her and I would go, you have brown hair.

And she would repeat it.

She would say, I have brown hair.