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A Young Actor Prepares

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A Young Actor Prepares provides a constructive form for young people to create with their own life experiences, imagination, and emotions through acting. It provides a step-by-step approach to help kids tackle emotionally challenging roles and portray complex characters at a very young age. For over thirty years, author Jeff Alan-Lee has worked with thousands of young people, teaching the work presented in this book. It has been the springboard for award-winning artists in acting, directing, playwriting, screenwriting, and music. Artistic director of the Young Actor's Studio in Los Angeles, Alan-Lee shares his experience training many top young actors. A Young Actor Prepares is written for teachers and students alike. Presented in play form, the book gives teachers the insight to help work with a multitude of personalities and provides a fun and easy way to help children and teens learn to apply Stanislavski-based exercises. Inspired by Stanislavski's An Actor Prepares, Alan-Lee has developed engaging and exciting ways to create great acting using this unique version of the Stanislavski system, reworked for the young actor. Discover the incredible journey that can take both teachers and young actors to the next level.
Jeff Alan-Lee is the artistic director of the Young Actor's Studio and a top acting coach in Los Angeles. He has taught and directed young people for over thirty years, both in New York and Los Angeles. He was a former child actor himself and began acting with his own television series at age nine. He has a BFA from New York University and has taught and directed at private schools, public schools, and youth shelters as well as teaching and directing children and teens at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institutes in New York and Los Angeles. His students include Shia LaBeouf and Scarlett Johansson, among many other great actors working in all areas of entertainment.
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