Acting techniques

How do audiences look at actors in costume onstage?

She Persisted: One Hundred Monologues from Plays by Women over Forty is a collection of monologues from plays by members of Honor Roll!

I Don't Need an Acting Class explores critical aspects of the technique of acting, utilizing conversations via email with countless actors.

How do I get an agent?

Potent and empowering voice exercises by the master teachers who devised them!

In A Young Actor Prepares, Jeff Alan-Lee masterfully delivers kids' and teens' acting classes presented as plays in script form.

In A Young Actor Prepares, Jeff Alan-Lee masterfully delivers kids' and teens' acting classes presented as plays in script form.

Potent and empowering voice exercises by the master teachers who devised them!

Improvisation is a tool for many things: performance training, rehearsal practice, playwriting, therapeutic interaction and somatic discovery.

Using new interview material with actors, directors and writers, this book explores the challenges of performance in documentary theatre.

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.

Anna May Wong was an extraordinary Asian American woman who became the country's most famous film actress of Chinese descent.

Anna May Wong was an extraordinary Asian American woman who became the country's most famous film actress of Chinese descent.

Improvisation is a tool for many things: performance training, rehearsal practice, playwriting, therapeutic interaction and somatic discovery.

Using new interview material with actors, directors and writers, this book explores the challenges of performance in documentary theatre.

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.

One type of analysis cannot fit every play, nor does one method of interpretation suit every theatre artist or collaborative team.

The Alexander Technique is a specific form of mind/body practice that focusses on improving efficiency through learning and understanding movement and behavior.

The Actor's Mindset:Acting as a Craft, Discipline, and Businessuniquely prepares actors to live a full, successful life as a performing artist.

The Actor's Mindset:Acting as a Craft, Discipline, and Businessuniquely prepares actors to live a full, successful life as a performing artist.

Regardless of your profession as a teacher, doctor, writer, or business associate, every presentation is a performance.

One minute: that's all the time an actor needs to make a scorching impression-to pull in an audience, make them care, laugh, cry, remind them that life is worth living, or help them forget that life is hard.

This clearly written guide to the Stanislavski method has long been a favorite among students and teachers of acting.

Roberto Benigni, the Italian comedian, actor, director, and writer, gained international fame when his film La vita e bella/ Life Is Beautiful (1997) won three Oscars in 1999, including Best Foreign Film and Best Actor.

The MAP: An Actor's Guide to On-Camera Acting teaches on-camera acting in a practical and technical way-helping new actors understand the rules of on-camera acting as if they are learning a foreign language and applying that language to their acting skill set.

Breath in Action looks at the significance of breath to human life - not just the simple fact that if we stop breathing, we die, but also the more subtle ways in which our breath interacts with our voice and our being.

Play and Performance offers hope to those lamenting the loss of play in the twenty-first century and aims to broaden the understanding of what play is.

The importance of play and fun to people's lives cannot be stressed enough in today's cultural climate of high stress, high stakes, and competition.

The Commedia dell'Arte of Flaminio Scala presents a translation and commentary of selected scenarios composed or collected by the actor-manager Flaminio Scala that were first published in 1611.

Roberto Benigni, the Italian comedian, actor, director, and writer, gained international fame when his film La vita e bella/ Life Is Beautiful (1997) won three Oscars in 1999, including Best Foreign Film and Best Actor.

Regardless of your profession as a teacher, doctor, writer, or business associate, every presentation is a performance.

Breath in Action looks at the significance of breath to human life - not just the simple fact that if we stop breathing, we die, but also the more subtle ways in which our breath interacts with our voice and our being.

One minute: that's all the time an actor needs to make a scorching impression-to pull in an audience, make them care, laugh, cry, remind them that life is worth living, or help them forget that life is hard.

The MAP: An Actor's Guide to On-Camera Acting teaches on-camera acting in a practical and technical way-helping new actors understand the rules of on-camera acting as if they are learning a foreign language and applying that language to their acting skill set.

The Alexander Technique is a specific form of mind/body practice that focusses on improving efficiency through learning and understanding movement and behavior.

William Esper, one of the leading acting teachers of our time, explains and extends Sanford Meisner''s legendary technique, offering a clear, concrete, step-by-step approach to becoming a truly creative actor.

The importance of play and fun to people's lives cannot be stressed enough in today's cultural climate of high stress, high stakes, and competition.

Play and Performance offers hope to those lamenting the loss of play in the twenty-first century and aims to broaden the understanding of what play is.

Theater veteran and acting teacher Joanna Merlin has written the definitive guide to auditioning for stage and screen, bringing to it a valuable dual perspective.

One type of analysis cannot fit every play, nor does one method of interpretation suit every theatre artist or collaborative team.

The Commedia dell'Arte of Flaminio Scala presents a translation and commentary of selected scenarios composed or collected by the actor-manager Flaminio Scala that were first published in 1611.

Las páginas de Teatro holístico son una introducción al teatro desde un enfoque que lo concibe no solo como representación, sino además como práctica de expansión creativa.

If you've ever heard a room of French people burst into laughter at a film from the 1970s, chances are Louis de Funès was on screen.

Performing with Resilience provides essential guidance for performers, educators, and industry professionals on sustaining mental health in the demanding entertainment industry.

Performing with Resilience provides essential guidance for performers, educators, and industry professionals on sustaining mental health in the demanding entertainment industry.

A raw, lyrical memoir of survival, creativity, and reclaiming voice.

How do you bring a centuries-old theatrical tradition to life for contemporary students who may have never seen or heard of it before?

How do you bring a centuries-old theatrical tradition to life for contemporary students who may have never seen or heard of it before?

Spanish Accents and Dialects for Actors: Volume 1 - North America and the Caribbean is an interactive roadmap to the accents and dialects of the Spanish-speaking world that uses trauma-informed approaches to navigate the reclamation of the Latino/a/e/x home sounds.