Learn the Meisner Technique from Goshen, New York Film Academy

Welcome Hudson Valley! This is Conor Walsh, host of In Touch, Townsquare Media of the Hudson Valley’s Award-Winning Public Affairs and Issues program.

This week on In Touch, we speak with Nan Gill-Wilson and David Patrick Wilson from the Academy of Film, Television, Stage and Performing Arts. We discuss David’s time learning under legendary acting mentors Sanford Meisner and Bill Esper, along with renowned vocal coach Seth Riggs, and how the Academy passes those teachings along to aspiring actors and creatives here in New York!

We invite you to join us and listen to a previously recorded conversation between Nan, David and myself here on In Touch.

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With the Academy of Film, , Television, Stage and Performing Arts, you can learn the basics of the Meisner Method from a protégé of the Master himself who has put this technique to work in all forms of entertainment with great success. Classes are designed specifically for the young actor to teach proper technique at an early age and avoid falling into bad habits.

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A native New Yorker, he was born to Scottish/Irish parents. David Patrick Wilson was raised and schooled on Long Island (Northport HS, Class of 1967). A scholar athlete, he gave up sports in his senior year to star in his school's production of "South Pacific," opposite Broadway legend, Patti Lupone. David went on to attend Columbia University in Manhattan, briefly (2 yrs). Bitten by the acting bug, he left the Ivy in the spring of '69 to attend The Neighborhood Playhouse where he studied with the legendary, Sanford Meisner and his devoted disciple, William Esper.

After graduating, he launched his career on the stages of New York (Public Theater) and Chicago (The Ivanhoe), in film ("Going Home," "The Seven-Ups") and soaps ("Secret Storm") before moving on to LA in '74. He later extended his stage, film and TV career to include work in all three disciplines in Stockholm, Sweden and Tel Aviv, Israel. He is the proud father of five (3 girls; 2 boys) and has 5 grandchildren. Still in love with acting and singing (he trained under 'American Idol' coach, Seth Riggs), he has added screen writing, directing and producing to his many professional successes. He has many film and TV credits: David was on one of my favorite episodes of Magnum PI, Murder, She Wrote, and has even portrayed the Man of Steel himself in the TV production of It's a Bird... It's a Plane... It's Superman! (1975).

This has been this week’s edition of IN TOUCH, the award-winning public affairs and issues program that runs across Townsquare Media of the Hudson Valley radio stations. We want to thank Nan and David. For more info on the Academy and Willy-Gilly Productions, visit https://www.willygilly.com/

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I’ve been your host, Conor Walsh. Until next time, stay curious, keep an open mind, and as always, I’m glad we get to Spend Some Time.