‘I had taken Meisner before in two different places, but when I started at MCS, I was blown away with the integrity and truthfulness that Matthew demanded in our work. I couldn’t pull any acting tricks, and I loved being caught and the true me being coaxed out under the lights. In an industry that often weighs heavily on being pretty enough, being funny enough, being dramatic enough, it was a relief to find a place of safety where I was enough, and it was me that was demanded: my true authentic self; and that it was that self that would develop a niche and get work. No other coach I’ve worked with has had higher expectations that I live truthfully and fully, not only under the imaginary circumstances of the stage, but in my entire life.”

-Heidi Duncan