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Tony Award Winning Actress Cherry Jones Visits Maggie Flanigan Studio
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New York, NY, July 15. 2014 – Maggie Flanigan Studio, New York’s top professional actor training program, is excited to welcome Tony and Emmy award winning actress, Cherry Jones on July 31, 2014.
Ms. Jones, is the recipient of numerous awards, most notably the Tony and Drama Desk Awards for Best/Outstanding Actress in a Play, for her work in The Heiress and Doubt. She also received a Prime Time Emmy for her role on the television series 24. Ms. Jones, considered to be one of the foremost theater actresses in the United States, will discuss her training and professional experience with the Maggie Flanigan Studio students.
Ms. Jones, originally from Paris, Tennessee, graduated with a BFA from Carnegie Mellon University. While at CMU, she was among one of the first actors to work at City Theater, a professional theater company in Pittsburgh. She was also a founding member of A.R.T. in Massachusetts. Ms. Jones achieved her star status winning two Tony Awards, three Drama Desk Awards, and one Emmy Award in her career thus far. This year Cherry Jones was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame.
About Maggie Flanigan Studio
Located in New York City, Maggie Flanigan Studio, founded in 2001, is the top two-year conservatory-based acting program in the United States. MFS students receive the highest quality Meisner training beginning in First Year with Executive Director & Senior Acting Teacher, Charlie Sandlan. In Second Year, students work with Charlie Sandlan and Artistic Director & Master Teacher, Maggie Flanigan. In addition to the Meisner technique, the curriculum at the Maggie Flanigan Studio provides support for serious students, interested in voice/speech and physical training, as well as Shakespeare, theater and film history, script analysis, cold reading, monologue, on-camera film and television class, and an audition only based Business Class, where students are given the chance to audition for NYC and LA’s top agents, managers and casting directors.
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