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For the past 30 years Allan Miller has offered private acting classes and coaching for beginning and professional actors, as well as teaching at the Actors Studio. His students have included Barbra Streisand, Dustin Hoffman, Meryl Streep, Geraldine Page, Lily Tomlin, Judd Hirsch, Jeff Goldblum, Jessica Walter, Ron Leibman, Sigourney Weaver, Peter Boyle, Rue McClanahan, Dianne Wiest, Madeline Stowe, and Bruce Davison. Mr. Miller is also a theatrical director/producer, and the author of the book A Passion for Acting: Exploring the Creative Process and the videotape series The Craft of Acting: Auditioning. (Auditioning can be ordered directly from Dynamic Productions, 13340 Valley Vista Blvd., Sherman Oaks, CA 91423. It costs $24.95.)
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"I was fifteen when I met Anita and Allan Miller -- the two people who changed my life. I had a job at the Cherry Lane Theater in Greenwich Village moving sets and painting scenery. Anita was featured in the play; her husband, Allan, was an acting teacher. To them I brought my problems. The Millers had an apartment littered with books, records, pictures and children. Along with the litter was love. So what if the dinner dishes weren't done that night? The Millers were happy.I baby-sat for the Millers. In return, Allan gave me a scholarship to his school. Thus I spent even more time with them. I'd browse through their library, discovering that the world of literature is larger than Charles Dickens and Edgar Allan Poe -- the authors assigned at high school. I also discovered that people can eat when they want to rather than at an appointed hour. I discovered that kids can be put to bed when they are tired rather than at seven-thirty sharp and still be healthy. The Millers had no routine. They just had happiness. I decided my life would have no regimentation or meaningless boundaries -- that I'd do the things that would make me happy and fulfilled. Thanks to the Millers, I'm enjoying myself. Can anyone ask for more?"
