Meisner International

Steven Ditmyer is an actor, director and acting teacher who studied with Sanford Meisner, Uta Hagen and Zoe Caldwell. He is a graduate of The Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre in New York City, where he later was invited to train as a teacher of the Meisner Technique. In addition to being a guest teacher at The American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City, he is the founder of Meisner International, currently teaching workshops in New York, London, Amsterdam, Paris, Rome, Vienna, Berlin, Helsinki, Vilnius, Tallinn, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Quito, Guayaquil and Bogota. As an actor, Steven worked with many great artists such as Al Pacino, Arthus Miller, Tony Randall, Ron Rifkin, Sam Waterson, Diane Wiest, Blythe Danner and more. As a director, he directed the Off The Page Reading Series for Tony Randall's National Actors Theatre in NYC (2005-2008) with such notable productions as: The Night of the Iguana with Alec Baldwin, Golf with Alan Shepard with Jack Klugman, Charles Durning, Len Cariou and John Cullum and Ladies in Rerirement with Rosemary Harris. He has directed many productions in New York working with such notable playwrights as Robert Askins, James Mcclure, Bruce Jay Friedman, Albert Bermel, Jack Gilhooley, Gail Sheehy and with notable actors as Marian Seldes, Brian Murray, Dana Ivey, John Pankow, Richard Bey, Brian Geraghty and many more. Steven was the Co-Artistic Director of the Workshop at The Neighboorhood Playhouse where he directed over 20 new plays and was the Artistic Director of The Neighborhood Theatre Company in Naples, Florida (2003-2005) where he directed The Syringa Tree. He was a founding director of the A-Train Plays in NYC (written and performed in 24 hours) where he directed The Casseroles of Far Rockaway by Seth Bauer – winner of The 2004 Samuel French Festival.