Author: Bobbi JG Weiss
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“The Great Guskin” (John Lahr, The New Yorker) shares the approach he uses to help actors land roles, develop them, and keep them alive

Harold Guskin is an “acting doctor” whose clients include Kevin Kline, Glenn Close, James Gandolfini, Bridget Fonda, and dozens more. In How to Stop Acting, Guskin reveals the insights and techniques that have worked wonders for beginners as well as stars. Instead of yet another “method,” Guskin offers a strategy based on a radically simple and refreshing idea: that the actor’s work is not to “create a character” but rather to be continually, personally responsive to the text, wherever his impulse takes him, from first read-through to final performance. From this credo derives an entirely new perspective on auditioning and the challenge of developing a role and keeping it fresh, even over hundreds of performances. Drawing on examples from his clients’ work and his own, Guskin presents acting as a constantly evolving exploration rather than as a progression toward a fixed goal. He also offers sound and original advice on adapting to the particular demands of television and film, playing difficult emotional scenes, tackling the Shakespearean and other great roles, and more. His book will find an eager and appreciative audience among novices and established actors alike.


Author: Harold Guskin
Paperback:  208 pages
Company: Faber & Faber  (2003-06-25)
ISBN: 0571199992
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Author: Karen Latchana Kenney
Library Binding:  32 pages
Company: Abdo Publishing Company  (2009-08-15)
ISBN: 1604537175
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Practical guide to motion picture and television acting, fully illustrated, covers audition tapes, and securing an agent.

Author: Brian Adams
Paperback:  377 pages
Company: Lone Eagle Publishing Company  (1987-01-25)
ISBN: 0943728207
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Author: Basil Hoffman; Foreword-Sydney Pollack
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Author: Frances Agnew
Hardcover:  101 pages
Company: Reliance Newspaper Syndicate  (1913)
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Author: Basil Hoffman
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Many writing how-to books urge readers to "let your imagination run wild," "think about how you would feel if . . .," or "visualize a scene where . . .." Easier read than done. Writing Is Acting takes a different approach, with a hands on, acting-based strategy that walks you step-by-step through the creative process, revealing new ways of communicating with your inner self, unlocking your imagination, and ratcheting up the power of your prose.

In Writing Is Acting Bobbi JG Weiss lets the vigor, passion, and raw guts of the acting profession supercharge your onpage performance. With her unique utility kit of Tools, Techniques and Tricks inspired by the actor's craft, she shows you how to:

train your imagination to work when and how you want it to build rounded, realistic characters through intensive self-exploration analyze the elements of effective language down to the letter sharpen your own perceptions to create powerful prose truly immerse yourself in the process of onpage creation without fear

If traditional writing advice has gotten you started but left you unsure of what to do next, Writing Is Acting will show you the way as only an actor can - by doing. Whether you're a novice seeking your first publication or a professional looking to energize your craft, you'll never look at writing the same way again.

Author: Bobbi JG Weiss
Paperback:  176 pages
Company: Heinemann  (2006-10-12)
ISBN: 0325009503
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Author: Basil(Author) ; Pollack, Sydney(Foreword by) Hoffman
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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, direct approach to recognizing and understanding human behavior, leading actors to discover and demonstrate the specific, individual humanity in every character. The broad scope of Hoffman's experiences has given him a special perspective that simplifies, demystifies and illustrates, in specific and easily understandable terms, the acting experience, not in theory, but as it is practiced at the highest levels of the industry. Includes: 100 specific questions and answers from Hoffman's acting classes * Fifteen production photographs of Hoffman's work in scenes from select films and plays.

Author: Basil Hoffman
Paperback:  197 pages
Company: Ingenuity Pr  (2009-01-02)
ISBN: 0971541027
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The Expressive Actor is an innovative guide to training your body, mind, and spirit to deliver top-notch dramatic performances. Master teacher Michael Lugering's pioneering approach and smart exercises synthesize the traditionally disparate disciplines of acting, voice, and movement into one unified method by placing you in direct contact with the physical sensations that are responsible for expressing your body's deepest, richest thoughts and feelings.

Author: Michael Lugering
Paperback:  240 pages
Company: Heinemann Drama  (2007-02-19)
ISBN: 0325009635
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Mass Market Paperback:  48 pages
Company: NAR  (2008)
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This study deals with the establishment of Max Reinhardt's school in Berlin, the training there up to World War II, the programme of study during the German Democratic Republic, and the setting up of the Hochschule fur Schauspielkunst "Ernst Busch". It offers a detailed account of the training methods which existed shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall, examining the shift in emphasis from a socialist Realistic school of acting, as one of the state institutes of the GDR, to a more eclectic, broad-based approach. The training programme showed the influence of Reinhardt's theories of acting as well as those of Stanislavski and Brecht. In addition, several of the school's main teachers and leaders throughout its history are profiled, and their various views included.

Author: Steve Earnest
Hardcover:  178 pages
Company: Edwin Mellen Press  (1999-08)
ISBN: 0773479163
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Author: Michael Lugering
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This is a portrait of the life and work of acting teacher and author Sonia Moore, whose book The Stanislavksi System is still in wide use in acting schools and universities. By analyzing Moore's research, teaching, and directing, the authors convey not only what Moore attempted with her work, but also reveal how she became a kind of artistic heir to Stanislavksi.

Author: Suzanne M. Trauth, Elizabeth C. Stroppel
Paperback:  168 pages
Company: The Scarecrow Press, Inc.  (2005-09-28)
ISBN: 0810856786
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This article defines what makes great acting and three types of actors the exist; creative, imitative and stage hacks. It also details the development of Method acting.

Professional Actor, Scott Thompson Baker, uses his 17 years of experience in the television and film industries to advise aspiring actors. This concise list of tips gives real-life advice to those pursuing their dream of becoming an actor with the hopes of making it big in the "business". http://www.CaptureDesiny.com

Image is everything to an actor, and careful makeup selection is most important in creating the look you want. Get started right with the backstage tools you need.

4 Helpful Tips Towards Refining Your Acting Skills and Abilities When it comes to getting ahead in the world of acting and the movies, there are a number of different steps that you need to undertake in order to find success in the world...

Acting Shakespeare for the first time can be a daunting challenge to face. You get your script, find out which part youve been given and you read your first line. And you dont understand it! What does this mean?, you ask. How are you going to play this role if you dont even understand the script? Dont panic! Help is on hand:

A good experienced actor can calculate himself by performing in many characters like comedy, drama, period and stage acting etc.

Finding work as an actor is a tough gig. One of the few reliable ways to get some nice dosh is to work as a voiceover talent. The hours are short and the pay is good. It might even be enough to help you avoid the dreaded day job. This short article contains ten tips on finding more voiceover work

As with so many subjective things in life, there is a great deal disagreement over who are the best method acting greats in the acting business and in movies. A good place to start in a search for the best of the method acting greats is...

The article provides practical excercises and information on Lee Strasberg's Method approach to acting.

The actor with the attitude "go to give, not to take' is very rare - and we, the producers, hire those rare people. If I, as the producer, perceive you to be one of those rare actors with a professional attitude, do you think I want you in my project? You'd better believe I do

These are the facts and myths that most know or believe of the city:

It's vital that you put your thoughts to the side for a moment and simply listen and be present with what the casting agent.

Do you want to become the next Hollywood superstar or Broadway legend? Whether you've got the makings of the next Marlon Brando or not, you're going to have to go through quite a few auditions to get there. These hints and tips on acting auditions can make a big difference to your success, both immediately and in the long term.

Acting a great art, which is describing the dramatical character in practical which can entertain audience.

There is a wannabe actor in all of us, all of us at one point of time wanted to be on the silver screen. Well, it's no easy job to be an actor, because (except for a few causes) you actually have to act!

DO student, experimental, low-budget, and independent films. Do community and independent theater. Remember, acting is doing--not just studying and reading about it. The more experience you have acting, the more you learn, the more youll grow, and the better your acting will be.

The masks of today are very different from the ones that adorned ancient drama. However, they are no less popular.

Many people have wanted to know how they can get into acting. Sometimes a model realizes that he or she cannot make a full-time living with a modeling career.Other models are aware of their limitations such as height and bone structure.

Society idolizes them, people seek to be like them, and the media will not leave them alone. They are our entertainment, our topic of gossip, and the focus of our love and hate. Celebrities, be they actors or models, have always had a place in the public's eyes. Yet for many seeking a career in acting or modeling, the road to showbiz success seems an impossible journey.

This article is a continuation of a previous submission entailling several tips on how to maximize your chances of "making it" as an actor when trying to break into TV or Film.

For actors singers and dancers, auditioning for musicals is a way of life. But what if this is your first musicals audition? How do you behave, what do you have to do, and how should you prepare? This article focusses on the first (private) audition in the process of auditioning for a musical

There are many small time actors that I have come across in my life, and most of them have an insecure streak in them. This insecurity is possibly the result of fearing the bubble to burst, that maybe that all this is not as real as it is.

Networking is how you will meet most of the key people in your life, along with, of course, your amazing and powerful intuition, which you will read about shortly. You must network. Producers must network. They have no choice. For producers to be successful in the film and television industry, they must network. As actors, writers or whatever area you are in, you have no choice either. As an actor, you must network.