Iris Klein

Iris is truely a «New York» Acting teacher! She is defintely not going to teach you how to mug for the camera. Works with some of the best! Love her!

Best I’ve seen in LA. I call this the Human Connection class. World peace manifest class. It’s pretty hard to describe, but for 10 bucks on Friday mornings, you may come in and discover yourself.

Iris is the Real Deal and great for actors who want to develop a technique and process to fully access emotions. Iris is gentle and nurturing, yet will challenge what you believe, which will lead to brilliant discoveries in your work. She is a great coach when it comes to The Big Audition”…or any audition, really. She uses her intuitive insights and wellspring of knowledge and know-​how to push you as an artist and get you In The Moment, to more fully express — too fully feel — what’s happening in your work. She’s a true gem.

Insightful, sensitive and intuitive to the actors. Her 2 week work shop has definitely elevated my understanding of acting and character development. Hope Iris can make it back to Hawaii soon. You folks in LA are sooo lucky to have her.

Today in class, I commented to Iris that she was the most perceptive woman I had ever met, and that she doesn’t miss a thing. She tilted her head, smiled and said that she knows.
And you know what? She does. She knows all. These past two weeks in Iris Klein’s two week Meisner intensive has rocked my world.
I love the craft of acting. I’ve read loads of books on the subject and always tried to apply what I’ve read into whatever class I happened to be taking at the time. Unfortunately, without proper guidance to temper my enthusiasm, I had picked up a lot of bad habits that ultimately lead to a lot of bad «acting.»
With this realization I felt over whelmed. However, working with Iris I also realized that I merely had a few bad tools mixed into my acting kit. Through Iris’s training, I took each tool out of my kit one by one, looked them over for rust, polished them or, if necessary, discarded them if they were broken or revealed to be silly toys masquerading as tools.
I’m going to be sad when this class concludes. With Iris’s approach to the Sanford Meisner method, she endowed me with a work ethic that I will always carry with me. I truly believe I can use it to develop what little acting talent I may have into a formidable skill I can use to crack into this crazy business of show business if I work hard at it.
I finally feel as though I’ve truly grown a little as an actor.

This is my first review because I think more people should be aware of this incredible teacher. I wanted to get back into acting after a three year hiatus. Through word of mouth I came across Iris who intimidated me because of her credentials. She works privately with many Emmy and Oscar winners and sometimes that means they’re more into talking about their accomplishments rather then teaching, but I went anyway.
She teaches the Miesner technique but in the most magical way. You can sit in on Fridays for $ 15.00 to do repetition or there are other classes available which you can check out on her website. There is nothing pretentious about this environment. She really wants you to be your best.
I know Unilocal is kind of a weird place to look but hey… I thought the information should be available.
I could go on and on but everyone’s experience with her is different and I hate reading long reviews. You would be doing yourself a disservice if you didn’t at least contact her for more information!