I first met Maury Ginsberg through his acting gym class, and immediately I felt seen by him, and so encouraged. He not only taught me, among other things, how to choose “moments”, (very important for film, and self taping), but also gave me the tools I needed to really believe in myself again, as an actor and as an artist in general. Two years later we reconnected to work on some monologues right before my final MFA audition, which was for Columbia University and I got in. It doesn’t take a genius, like Maury, to put two and two together. So, if you have the chance to work with this man, do it.