Playhouse West is the Meisner Technique school and Award-Winning Theatre Company founded by Robert Carnegie and Jeff Goldblum.

Interview for Enrollment Following your Audit

DAYTIME
Tuesdays & Thursdays
@ 12:00 noon
EVENING
Tuesdays & Fridays 
@ 7:00 pm
Playhouse West
4250 Lankershim Blvd, North Hollywood, CA
AN AUDIT IS REQUIRED TO ENROLL AT PLAYHOUSE WEST
The training at Playhouse West is fully endorsed by Sanford Meisner. There are only a handful of people personally trained by Sanford Meisner to teach his technique. Robert Carnegie is part of this very select group. All of the teachers at Playhouse West have learned Mr. Meisner's approach and have been specifically trained to teach it. 

The 4th Wall podcast with Jim Parrack

TESTIMONIALS

The 4th Wall - Scott Caan Interview
Jim Parrack talks about Robert Carnegie

WHO WE'VE TRAINED

An introduction to the working actors trained at Playhouse West.

Who Recommends Us

Playhouse West is on exclusive lists handed out by leading Agencies and Management Companies of the best places to train in Los Angeles. We have also been recommended personally by the following individuals.
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Sanford Meisner

Legendary Acting Teacher

Arthur Seidelman

​Award-winning director of film, television and Broadway

Sydney Pollack

Academy Award winning director – Out of Africa

Ang lee

Academy Award winning director – Life of Pi, Brokeback Mountain

James Caan

actor, The Godfather, Thief, Miser

James Franco

actor-writer-director, Academy Award Nominee – 127 Hours

Robert Evans

Head of Paramount Pictures, producer – The Godfather

Chuck Russell

director – The Mask, Eraser

Sidney Poitier

Academy Award winning actor – In the Heat of the Night, Lilies of the Field

Jon Voight

Academy Award winning actor – Midnight Cowboy, Coming Home

Buddy Van Horn

director – Any which Way You Can, The Dead Pool, Pink Cadillac

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