Actor Stef Tovar, seen on-screen in Contagion, Widows, Employee of the Month, Chicago Med, and more, teaches you the "foreign language" of on-camera acting. Tovar gives actors a practical, step-by-step technique on how to audition for and book on-camera acting jobs-and what to do once on set.
(Applause Acting Series). Culled from the work of over 100 playwrights and encompassing the seminal issues of our time, this follow-up compendium is by turns comic and serious but always intensely human. Pieces include scenes from August: Osage County, George & Martha, Intimate Apparel, Take Me Out, and Water Music .
Long out of print and virtually impossible to find even in the rare book market, this autobiography recalls to life one of the most eminent actors of his time. Sherlock Holmes fans will be much interested in Basil Rathbones remarks on the character with whom he has been so closely identified.
Bold and Combustible New Monologues for All Ages and Genders
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. Small Explosions collects more than ninety entirely new monologues from acclaimed playwright Adam Szymkowicz (Hearts Like Fists, Clown Bar, ......
(Applause Acting Series). Covering the best of Broadway, Off-Broadway, regional, and experimental theatre since 2000, One on One challenges actors to explore the inner self, develop skill and artistry for auditions, and deliver a knockout onstage performance. These monologues sometimes comic, sometimes serious, and often both tackle issues ranging ......
Gloria Swanson is most remembered today for her role as "Norma Desmond" in Billy Wilder's noir sound classic Sunset Boulevard (1950), but Swanson during her heyday was heralded as filmdom's leading fashion queen, as proclaimed by director Cecil B. DeMille in such silent motion pictures as Male and Female (1919), Why Change YourHusband (1921), and ......
Stella Adler towers high among the memorable acting teachers in American theatre. Her methods of training, her principles of acting and character interpretation, and her analyses of the seminal plays of the modern theatre comprise a legacy for everyone who followed her. Acting with Adler looks at that legacy through the particular immediacy and ......
Audition Techniques for Actors of the Global Majority
"Everyone involved in the performing arts, from professors to casting directors to actors to students, especially those just starting out, should read this eye-opening work." Library Journal, Starred Review A practical guide that shows BIPOC actors how to break down the audition process rather than being broken down by the entertainment industry ......
While there are many books that attempt to teach people how to act, there are few that show aspiring actors what it takes to succeed as a working professional. The Professional Actor's Handbook: From Casting Call to Curtain Call provides struggling artists--stage and screen actors, dancers, singers--with strategies that will help them successfully ......