REDBUD PRODUCTIONS

OVER 21 YEARS OF
ACTING CLASSES FOR ADULTS
and
HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS

Redbud Productions in Ann Arbor, Michigan has offered acting classes for adults and high school students since 1999, taught by local teacher, director, and actress Loretta Grimes. Using the techniques of Sanford Meisner sessions focus on emotional work, improvisation, and scene study.
Loretta trained at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York using methods devised by famed teacher Sanford Meisner. Using his technique, she encourages students to act moment-to-moment, recalling emotional images from their past to serve as a background for their character’s emotional state of mind.

Loretta Grimes has successfully taught Meisner technique classes for adults and teens for over 21 years. Many of her students have gone on to featured roles for Redbud Productions, Purple Rose Theatre, Detroit Repertory Theatre, Encore Musical Theatre, Ann Arbor Civic Theatre, and other local companies, as well as roles in theaters in Chicago, New York (Off-Broadway and Broadway), and Los Angeles. Students have been featured in films shot in Michigan, Chicago, and New York. Her high school students have gone on to advanced studies at Yale Drama School, New York University, the University of Michigan, New York’s Circle in the Square, Juilliard, the Guthrie Theater, DePaul University, and other Theater programs.

At this time we are no longer holding Redbud acting classes. We would like to thank all of our students and supporters for these past two decades and we will miss you.

If you would like more information about Redbud Productions please email us at meisnerclass@gmail.com.