Michelle Danner

Michelle Danner is an actress, director, and acting coach. Her student list includes Marcia Cross and Zooey Deschanel, among others. She teaches internationally in Europe, Toronto, Vancouver, Dubai, Los Angeles and New York.

History
Danner first got involved with the drama world when she participated with the production and administration of a European tour of Saturday Night Fever in 1977. In the mid 80s she moved to New York, where she served as an artistic director for the New York Theatre Company, later moving to Los Angeles in 1990. Danner later assisted in raising funds to build and open the Edgemar Center for the Arts in Los Angeles, was a staff member on the WB series The Starlet, and is the artistic director for the Edgemar Center for the last nineteen years. She trained with Stella Adler, Uta Hagen, and Bill Esper. In the year 2000, acting coach Michelle Danner and Larry Moss founded Edgemar Center for the Arts, a top los angeles acting school and a two theatre and art gallery complex. The Larry Moss Acting Studio has been housed at Edgemar since the cutting of the ribbon in 2002 and has flourished and grown into what is now The Acting Studio at Edgemar. Danner has coached many A-List Actors privately and on set including Gerard Butler, Chris Rock, Jamie Lynn Sigler, Penelope Cruz, Michael Pena, Isla Fisher, Common, Salma Hayek, Brian McKnight, James Franco, Christian Slater, Catherine Bell, Gabrielle Union, Justin Chatwin, Justine Wadell, Rob Estes, Rick Fox, and Sally Kellerman among many others. This Los Angeles Acting School encompasses the following acting techniques: Meisner, Strasberg, Adler, Hagen, Chekov, & the Stanislavsky Technique.