Acting Auditioning category: 934 books
An Attitude for Acting
How to Survive (and Thrive) as an Actor
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2015
A 'how to' book for actors who want to develop a 'can do' attitude to their profession in the face of rejection and intense competition.
Feeling despondent about the acting profession? Been out of work for longer than you care to remember? Starting to resent the injustices of the job and the...
by Bruce Miller
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Mastery of craft depends on repetition: the more opportunities student actors have to be guided through analyzing scripts, the more likely they are to develop a reliable process for making choices when the time comes to work independently. That's why Acting on the Script contains eight short plays,...
No Acting Please
A Revolutionary Approach to Acting and Living
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
Co-authored by Joan Hotchkis, this is Eric Morris's first book The emphasis here is on first establishing a being state, eliminating the obstacles--such as tension, the actor's archenemy--and elevating the actor's awareness. As the title indicates, many of the techniques herein address the actor's...
Acting for the Camera
Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Culled from Tony Barr's 40 years' experience as a performer, director and acting teacher in Hollywood, this highly praised handbook provides readers with the practical knowledge they need when performing in front of the camera. This updated edition includes plenty of new exercises for honing on-camera...
by Larry Garrison, Wallace Wang
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2011
Provides the expert advice you need to get your big break!
Jump-start your career and land that paying part
From preparing for auditions to finding an agent, the acting business is a challenging and competitive field. This indispensable guide is what every aspiring actor needs to get...
Acting A to Z (Revised Second Edition)
The Young Person's Guide to a Stage Or Screen Career
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2010
Lots of kids want to be actors. Thousands of them. Millions of them. The ones who are serious need a copy of Acting A to Z. Industry insider Katherine Mayfield explains exactly what it's like to be an actor, including what kind of training the young person will need, comparisons of the different types...
The Diary of a Professional Experiencer
An Autobiographical Journey Into the Evolution of an Acting System
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
The Diary of a Professional Experiencer is the sixth in a series of books written by Eric Morris. Unlike his other books, this is a very personal account of his frustrations and struggles as he strives to discover how the actor creates reality on the stage or in film. Though the style is autobiographical,...
The Science and Art of Acting for the Camera
A Practical Approach to Film, Television, and Commercial Acting
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
The Science and Art of Acting for the Camera provides a precise yet practical approach to help unlock the mysteries of acting for film and television. Written by veteran actor, producer, and director John Howard Swain, the book offers a clear-cut, no-nonsense technique that equips aspiring or working...
by John Abbott
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
A 'fast-forward' acting course covering all the essential techniques an actor needs to know and use - with a suite of exercises to put each technique into practice.
The Acting Book offers various ways to analyse a text and to create character, using not only the established processes of Stanislavsky...
Acting and How to Be Good at It
The Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
This authoritative and ground-breaking text teaches the serious student of acting a proven, comprehensive and effective approach to the craft and to character development. Through revealing, behind-the-scenes anecdotes and practical exercises, the veteran character actor guides readers through his unique,...
Acting the Song
Performance Skills for the Musical Theatre
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
Acting the Song offers a contemporary, integrated approach to singing in musicals that results in better-trained, smarter performers everyone wants to work with. In this new, thoroughly updated edition of the paperback, directors and teachers of musical theater will find guidance in developing and...
Acting from Shakespeare's First Folio
Theory, Text and Performance
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Acting from Shakespeare's First Folio examines a series of techniques for reading and performing Shakespeare's plays that are based on the texts of the first ‘complete’ volume of Shakespeare's works: the First Folio of 1623.
Do extra syllables in a line suggest how it might be played? Can...
Essential Acting
A Practical Handbook for Actors, Teachers and Directors
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2015
How do actors fuse thought, emotion and action within their creative process?
Essential Acting is an inspired and reliable toolbox for actors and teachers in the classroom, the rehearsal room and the workshop. RADA’s Brigid Panet has distilled nearly 60 years of acting, directing and actor...
ACTING OUTSIDE THE LINES
Perilous Journeys in Pivotal Acting Scenes
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015
Professional Actor/Writer Jack Forbes offers us front-row seats in an enticing array of myriad characters and compelling plot twists. Jack takes us from Big League baseball coach, to homicide detective, murder suspect, rape victims, criminal defense attorneys, private investigator, sketchy eye-witness,...