Anthony Meindl

Anthony Meindl is an award-winning multi-hyphenate talent. He is an actor, director, writer, acting coach, entrepreneur, author and inspirational speaker. As an acting teacher, he opened his first studio in Los Angles in 1998 and now has schools in 9 other cities around the world, including New York, London, Vancouver, Toronto, Atlanta, Santa Fe, Sydney, Chicago, and Copenhagen. He's known for revolutionizing a more modern understanding of acting training and has guest acting taught for directing at David Lynch's Master of Filmmaking Program in Fairfied, Iowa and at the prestigious Moscow Arts Theatre. As a writer, he has written a number of award-winning screenplays, including the Slamdance Grand-Prize winning The Wonder Girls, which also received a Nicholl Fellowship mention, and Best Screenplay for Where We Go From Here from Q-Films Long Beach Film Festival. As a filmmaker, Anthony has received a number of awards and acclaim. His latest feature film, Where We Go From Here, premiered at Outfest in Los Angeles, won the Jury Award at NYC's East Village Queer Film Festival, and is available on Hulu (starting Feb 1, 2020). Another feature released in 2019, Sum Of Us, premiered at the Los Angeles Downtown Film Festival. His short film, Is This You, Too? has screened in over a dozen film festivals including the Santa Cruz Film Festival and was awarded the Best Short Film Awards at the Tulum World Environmental Film Festival and the Colorado International Activism Film Festival. His first short, Ready? OK! premiered at the prestigious Provincetown International Film Festival and sold to MTV's LOGO Network as part of their "Best in Short Film" series. His first feature, Birds of a Feather, won the Audience Award at the Honolulu Rainbow Film Festival and was part of the inaugural Champs-Elysées Film Festival in Paris and Wroclaw, Poland. He has been an inspirational speaker, sharing the stage with such luminaries as Jim Carey, Jack Cornfield and Tom Shadyac. He is the author of three books, including the best-seller, At Left Brain Turn Right. His latest book, You Knew When You Were Two, is being published this spring.