Acting techniques Books

It Is Time... To Unlock Your Acting Potential and Embrace Success!Stop Procrastinating and start moving towards your acting career NOW. This book combines acting techniques with mindset mastery so that you can overcome anylimiting beliefs and self-doubts...

"Make It in Showbiz: Life Behind the Scenes" introduces readers to a compelling narrative, offering a window into the highs and lows of beginning a career in the entertainment industry. This book is rich with stories of overcoming obstacles and achieving...

Are You a Beautiful Woman?Great...Are You a Handsome Man?Great...You an Everyday Looking Person?Even Better!Not only BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE, 5'11" plus get work modeling and acting! REAL PEOPLE get work too! Think about it. Monitor your TV for 12 hours. What...

"You should read Hamlet. A lot of other books refer to Hamlet. You should read Shakespeare because a lot of other books refer to Shakespeare and if you don't understand Shakespeare, then there's a whole bunch of books you can't understand." That is what...

"I was surrounded by love growing up but I don't really remember hearing it said much, that was all a bit awkward and unnecessary but, because I was lucky, it ran through everything like fat marbling a piece of meat."WHATEVER LOVE MEANS comprises a...

Analysis through Action for Actors and Directors is a comprehensive view of an innovative and exciting process for making new theatre.

Inside The Performance Workshop: A Sourcebook for Rasaboxes and Other Exercises is the first full-length volume dedicated to the history, theory, practice, and application of a suite of performer training exercises developed by Richard Schechner and...

Written by a scholar of satire and politics, Trump Was a Joke explains why satire is an exceptional foil for absurd political times and why it did a particularly good job of making sense of Trump.Covering a range of comedic interventions, Trump Was a...

Written specifically for animation professionals instead of stage and movie actors, this book's 5th edition provides an essential primer for creating empathetic and dynamic character performance and, in the process, shows how the strongest storytelling...

The collective volume seeks to respond to these questions by exploring crip time in disability performance as both a concept and a phenomenon.

It provides an engaging and contextualised insight into a South African township-based arts centre that has survived the vicissitudes of steady militarisation in townships worst years of apartheid as well as the exhilaration of a new democratic policy...

Kubrick's operatic exploration of the cosmos. Popeye Doyle in a commandeered car speeding after an elevated train. Jamie Lee Curtis' bare-breasted turn as a hooker. Alex DeLarge and his droogs on the rampage. The Man with No Name insisting a disbelieving...

REALITY SLOWS ME DOWN offers a wide variety of audition pieces for professional actors, as well as high school and college students and actors performing in community theaters. The contents have a broad range of choices in age, emotional tones, and...

Would You Kill the Savior of the World? Uzzi and Ezekiel have spent their entire lives hearing of the promised Messiah. While training at the temple, they hear of a baby born in a manger, who seems to fulfill all the prophecies. The rabbis tell the boys...

This is the ultimate show-biz how-to guide for aspiring kids and their parents, written by Hollywood’s number-one kid-talent expert and executive producer for Disney, ABC, and the WB, Irene Dreayer (“the Dray”). As a thirty-year veteran...

The Audition Playbook is a two-part guide and workbook designed to help musicians of all instruments and levels efficiently and effectively plan and prepare for orchestra, band, or other ensemble auditions. No matter the goal, the Audition Playbook...

The Method Acting Handbook is a concise and practical guide to acting exercises originally devised by the 'father' of the Method, Lee Strasberg. The Method trains the imagination, concentration, senses and emotions to 're-create' - not 'imitate' -...

This comprehensive collection provides theoretical accounts of the grounds and phenomenon of film acting. Each section proposes novel ways of considering the recurring motifs in academic enquiries into film acting.

This is the first English translation of Michael Chekhov's two-volume autobiography, combining The Path of the Actor (1927) and extensive extracts from his later volume Life and Encounters. Full of illuminating anecdotes and insightful observations...

Embark on an immersive exploration into the heart of the performing arts with "The Essence of Acting: Techniques, Triumphs, and Trials." This comprehensive tome delves deep into the multifaceted world of acting, offering readers an unparalleled journey...

This book does not downplay or sugar-coat the difficulties and obstacles that you as a budding actor will face - it actually highlights them because it is vital that you form a realistic picture of what you are up against. Knowing just what to expect...

Hollywood Remains to Be Seen is a fascinating, gossipy guide to the fourteen most significant Hollywood-era cemeteries and the final resting places of the movie stars who are buried in them. Arranged as an easy-to-follow tours of the properties, the...

Experiencing Speech: A Skills-Based, Panlingual Approach to Actor Training is a beginner's guide to Knight-Thompson Speechwork®, a method that focuses on universal and inclusive speech training for actors from all language, racial, cultural, and gender...

There are over 150 BFA and MFA acting programs in the US today, nearly all of which claim to prepare students for theatre careers. Peter Zazzali contends that the curricula of these courses represent an ethos that is as outdated as it is limited,...

Samantha Paris’s Finding the Bunny is an engaging and heart-warming combination of memoir, business book, inspirational story and inside look at today’s most ubiquitous, most influential, and most invisible art. Through narration, flashback,...

This is the new book from the author of Scenes for Teens and Acting Scenes for Kids and Tweens – a veteran actor with Hollywood and Broadway credits.Monologues for Teens is a collection of 60 Original Monologues on a wide...

El Star Maker internacional revela sus 14 verdades para llegar a ser estrellaCon su genuino estilo cargado de buen humor, Joe Bonilla divulga sus verdades que te llevarán a ser artista. Lo acompañan grandes celebridades, y los más conocidos...

The Westminster Chorus Performance Handbook contains a performance method designed to cultivate authentic, truthful performances that are spontaneous and alive. By working with this map to the performance process-and the practical, actionable tools...

16 scenes for two to six (or more) players, all 5-10 minutes in length. Student actors will love playing a wide variety of characters: -Comical monsters -Socially awkward robots -Powerful wizards -Courageous superheroes -Mad scientists -Charismatic...

The second edition of this popular text includes twenty-five new bonus games! The revised introduction from the author emphasizes the versatility of these games, and explains how directors and instructors from many different fields have used these...

Monologues of Women of the Bible is designed to provideChristian monologues in the market place, particularly for female actors. Thiswill give actors additional choices of monologues to select. Perhaps, thesemonologues will address and help someone who...

A Sourcebook of Performance Labor presents the views and experiences of collaborators in other artists' works.

This book confronts and analyzes the systemic racism that confronts actors of color in the USA through interviews with leading performers in the nation's theatrical epicentre of Chicago.

This book charts the impact of Shakespeare's works on Harold Pinter's career as a playwright.This study will be of great interest to students and scholars in theatre and performance studies.

Mothering Performance is a combination of scholarly essays and creative responses which focus on maternal performance and its applications from a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives.

This book explores the development of Sinhala stylistic drama from its earliest manifestations to the post-independence era.

Improvisation is a valuable skill for any performer, even if you plan to use only fully scripted material. There is always a possibility of something going wrong, and improvisation can dig you out of the hole. Likewise, comedy is a great training ground...

Here is a haven of short one-act plays that are easily adaptable to classroom or stage performance. Enhanced with prop suggestions and simple costuming, the emphasis of each of these shows is on contemporary characters in contemporary situations...

French mime performer Claude Kipnis, who trained under the great Marcel Marceau for three years, reveals the mechanisms and techniques of mime in this basic text for any aspiring mime. We know of no other book that so comprehensively and clearly...

Acting careers don't just happen, they're built. There are plenty of people being paid to act! But getting started as a professional can be tricky.Are you long on talent but short on experience and industry connections?Finding it hard to know where to...

Is Meryl Streep really a good actress? Why are most creative people Democrats? What’s a dramaturg? Why is it important to sing louder at the end? Answers to these questions and tips on acting, directing, and career building in the arts jam-pack...

One of the most startling and reliable measures of vitality in the contemporary American theatre is the staggering volume and high quality of new plays that it continues to produce. This anthology is offered as a partial reflection of some of the best...

This is a step-by-step, practical guidebook to the PRE-REHEARSAL analysis of a script. Its aim is to de-mystify and organise the questions necessary to ask in order to prepare for a creative, imaginative and fruitful exploration of a dramatic text in...

This unique collection of original monologues gleaned from Vin Morreale, Jr.'s nationally known BURNING UP THE STAGE workshops allows actors to develop their talent and expand their skills, with characters ranging from anguished to inspiring,...