Michelle Danner

Michelle Danner is an American acting coach at the Los Angeles Acting School who specializes in the Meisner, Strasberg, Adler, Hagen, Chekhov and Stanislavsky techniques. She is also the founding and artistic director of the Edgemar Center for the Arts. Danner is the daughter of a former William Morris agent, and she currently works as an actor, director and acting coach. Career In 2006, Danner made her film directing debut with, How to Go Out on a Date in Queens, winning the LA Film Awards' Best Acting and Best Movie awards. Michelle Danner’s 2013 film Hello Herman catalogs the effect that peer abuse, parental neglect and the general coarsening of society has on a typical high school student. A New York Times review found that Danner's anti-bullying agenda freighted the movie. Danner has acted in and directed over thirty plays in Los Angeles and New York, with her favorite acting credit cited as the Dramalogue award-winning Tennessee Williams' The Rose Tattoo.