Acting Auditioning category: 934 books
You Can Act!
A Complete Guide for Actors
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
Halle Berry, Sean Penn, Dustin Hoffman, and Robert DeNiro have all been coached by or participated in seminars with Brown. This invaluable manual offers an extensive compendium of reference information from the legendary acting teacher.
The Energetic Performer
An Integrated Approach to Acting for Stage and Screen
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2016
A new approach to actor training by a senior teacher, this illustrated manual shows how to use the body to produce rich, varied and truthful performances. The approach, rooted in the Michael Chekhov Technique, integrates ancient Qigong knowledge with somatic psychology and western actor training methods...
by Ellen Burstyn
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2007
A deeply personal and electrifying memoir by Ellen Burstyn, renowned actress and six-time Academy Award nominee.
By the time Ellen Burstyn arrived in New York to study acting, she'd already worked as a Texas fashion model, a Montreal chorus girl, suffered numerous toxic relationships, and just...
An Acrobat of the Heart
A Physical Approach to Acting Inspired by the Work of Jerzy Grotowski
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2010
"The actor will do, in public, what is considered impossible." When the renowned Polish director Jerzy Grotowski began his 1967 American workshop with these words, his students were stunned. But within four weeks they themselves had experienced the "impossible."
In An Acrobat...
by Stephen Unwin
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
A practical, hands-on guide - for actors, directors, teachers and students - to Brecht's history and practice of theatre.
The Complete Brecht Toolkit examines, one by one, Brecht's many, sometimes contradictory ideas about theatre - and how he put them into practice. Here are explanations of...
by Leni Sands
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2013
Written by Leni Sands - Cover Designed by Carole Knight.
Noise Pollution (loud music) can drive people mad, literally.
This monologue has been written for performance. As you read, you become embroiled in the anguish of the confessor. It is almost autobiographical in that the...
The Actor Speaks
Voice and the Performer
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
In The Actor Speaks, Patsy Rodenburg takes actors and actresses, both professional and beginners, through a complete voice workshop. She touches on every aspect of performance work that involves the voice and sorts through the kinds of vexing problems every performer faces onstage: breath and relaxation;...
by Sharon Bialy
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
First Time in Print Updated and expanded To win a role in a movie or on network or cable TV, you must make a strong first impression in your brief, crucial audition—and the first person you have to impress is the casting director. In How to Audition On Camera, Casting Director Sharon Bialy...
Daughters of Destiny
Dramatic Monologues of Four Amazing American Women
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
Throughout the centuries there have been Amazing American Women; women who rose on their strength of character, who overcame incredible obstacles to become outstanding in their own right. Women have created works of art and literature, founded businesses, fought in wars, led political and social movements,...
by Eric Morris
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
My Hollywood Stories is a collection of informative, historical, educational, funny, exciting, entertaining, sexy, shocking, and tragic stories and anecdotes about famous and not-so-famous Hollywood people--actors, directors, producers, writers, and studio moguls. While it is not a book about acting,...
The Actor's Other Career Book
Using Your Chops to Survive and Thrive
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2010
Actors don't have to become Broadway stars to make a living with their acting talents. The Actor’s Other Career Book pulls back the curtain to reveal more than 50 permanent and temporary positions available in cruise ships, trade shows, retail stores, advertising agencies, corporate settings, education,...
Starting Your Career in Broadcasting
Working On and Off the Air in Radio and Television
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2010
Starting Your Career in Broadcasting is the complete guide to breaking into this competitive field--and staying there. It’s packed with advice from top personalities including Bob Costas, Chris Berman, Larry King, Jim Lampley, Bob Kingsley, Rene Syler, Troy Aikman, plus station managers and other...
by Tina Packer, Helen Epstein
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
The Shakespeare & Company Actor Training Experience by Tina Packer and Helen Epstein (9,700 words)
Insights and wisdom from one of America's leading Shakespearean actors and theatrical trainers on how to explore and utilize Shakespeare's work to bring your innate acting talent to surface....
How to Be a Working Actor, 5th Edition
The Insider's Guide to Finding Jobs in Theater, Film & Television
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2010
The celebrated survival guide for the working actor - now completely updated and expanded with a foreword by Tony award-winning actor Joe Mantegna!
Renowned for more than two decades as the most comprehensive resource for actors, How to Be a Working Actor is a must-read for achieving success...