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Make Your Voice Heard: An Actor's Guide to Increased Dramatic Range Through Vocal Training
by Chuck Jones  Publisher Comments Chuck Jones, the leading expert on using the voice to convey character, explains his groundbreaking techniques clearly and concisely in this revised edition of a classic. First, Jones examines acting basics related to the voice: being heard, character...
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Stage Combat: Fisticuffs, Stunts, and Swordplay for Theater and Film
by Jenn Zuko Boughn Publisher Comments Wanna fight, buddy? This comprehensive guide covers everything performers, directors, theater teachers, fight choreographers, and others need to know to stage believable, safe action for theater and performing arts. From basic falls, rolls, and tumbling...
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Respect for Acting
by Uta Hagen Publisher Comments Respect for Acting This fascinating and detailed book about acting is Miss Hagen's credo, the accumulated wisdom of her years spent in intimate communion with her art. It is at once the voicing of her exacting standards for herself and those she taught],...
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Letters to a Young Artist: Straight-Up Advice on Making a Life in the Arts -- For Actors, Performers, Writers, and Artists of Every Kind
by Anna Deavere Smith Publisher Comments The author looks back on lessons from her 30 years of acting and teaching to help chart the path to success for a new generation of artists and performers. She shows how to combine artistic integrity with professional savvy, offering an example of how to...
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The Rainbow of Desire: The Boal Method of Theatre and Therapy
by Augusto Boal Publisher Comments "The Rainbow of Desire" is Augusto Boal's bold and brilliant statement about the therapeutic ability of theatre to liberate individuals and change lives. Now translated into English and fully and comprehensively updated from the French, this books sets...
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An Actor's Work: A Student's Diary
by Konsta Stanislavski Publisher Comments 'scrupulously precise' - Marie-Christine Autant-Mathieu, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris 'a far more authentic Stanislavsky... a valuable new translation, which is fuller and more readable than anything else previously attempted...
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Games for Actors and Non-Actors
by Augusto Boal Publisher Comments "Games for Actors and Non-Actors" is a unique piece of writing. Boal's Methods transform theatre into a democratic arena where the spectator becomes the spect"actor"', contributing ideas, taking over roles, and using theatre to confront problems such as...
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The Actor's Workbook: How to Become a Working Actor
by Valorie Hubbard Synopsis The Actor's Workbook helps the reader transition from being an acting student to becoming a working professional in a practical, motivating, and straight forward manner. After reading and completing the various workbook exercises of The Actor's Workbook,...
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The Back Stage Guide to Working in Regional Theater: Jobs for Actors and Other Theater Professionals
by Jim Volz Publisher Comments Here's the essential guide to surviving and thriving as an actor in regional theaters. The thousands and thousands of students in the hundreds and hundreds of acting programs all over the country would all love to become stars right out of school--but...
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The Actor's Script: Script Analysis for Performers
by Charles S Waxberg Publisher Comments The real star of any play or film is the script. Every creative choiceis focused on making this abstract compilation of dialogue and actionscome to breathing, believable life. The Actor's Script offers aclear, concise, and easily assimilated technique...
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Impro : Improvisation and Theatre (81 Edition)
by Keith Johnstone Publisher Comments "Impro" ought to be required reading not only for theatre people generally but also for teachers, educators, and students of all kinds and persuasions. Readers of this book are not going to agree with everything in it; but if they are not challenged by...
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Acting in Film: An Actor's Take on Moviemaking
by Michael Caine Publisher Comments A master actor who's appeared in an enormous number of films, starring with everyone from Nicholson to Kermit the Frog, Michael Caine is uniquely qualified to provide his view of making movies. This new revised and expanded edition features great photos...
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Viewpoints Book : a Practical Guide To Viewpoints and Composition (04 Edition)
by Anne Bogart Publisher Comments The Viewpoints is a technique of improvisation that grew out of the postmodern dance world. It was first articulated by choreographer Mary Overlie, who broke down the two dominant issues performers deal with-space and time-into six categories. Since that...
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The Power of the Actor: The Chubbuck Technique
by Ivana Chubbuck Publisher Comments In The Power of the Actor, a Los Angeles Times bestseller, premier acting teacher and coach Ivana Chubbuck reveals her cutting-edge technique, which has launched some of the most successful acting careers in Hollywood. The first book from the instructor...
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Sanford Meisner on Acting (87 Edition)
by Sanford Meisner Publisher Comments This book, written in collaboration with Dennis Longwell, follows an acting class of eight men and eight women for fifteen months, beginning with the most rudimentary exercises and ending with affecting and polished scenes from contemporary American...
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The Actor's Menu: A Character Preparation Handbook
by Bill Howey Publisher Comments Whether new to the business or a seasoned professional, this handbook provides actors with a personal, active approach to discovering and developing their talent....
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Art of Voice Acting 3RD Edition
by James Alburger Publisher Comments From basic acting techniques and exercises for keeping the voice in top condition, to marketing and promotion of the actor, this book covers it all. The Art of Voice Acting is an excellent introduction to the business and art of voice acting. This new...
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How To Be a Working Actor 4TH Edition
by Mari Lyn Henry Publisher Comments The most celebrated survival guide for actors, completely updated and revised — now includes Internet marketing. This comprehensive guide has been revised and expanded to include new information on enhancing your image; finding jobs in emerging...
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Actions : Actors Thesaurus (04 Edition)
by Marina Calderone Publisher Comments An essential companion for actors in rehearsal - a thesaurus of action words to revitalize performance....
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Improvisation for the Theater: A Handbook of Teaching & Directing Techniques, Including a New Appendix
by Viola Spolin Publisher Comments Viola Spolin's improvisational techniques changed the very nature and practice of modern theater. The first two editions of Improvisation for the Theater sold more than one hundred thousand copies and inspired actors, directors, teachers, and writers in...
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