Life And Acting

Author : Jack Garfein
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810126737
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life and Acting written by Jack Garfein and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Jack Garfein's book is a touching reminder of our early attempts at creating theater without artifice. It is good to know that he is still working hard at it."---Ben Gazzara --

Author : Jane Drake Brody
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472573706
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Actor's Business Plan written by Jane Drake Brody and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-10-22 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Actor's Business Plan is a self-directed practical guide for actors graduating from formal training programs, as well as for those already in the business whose careers need to move ahead more successfully. Using the familiar language of acting training, the book offers a method for the achievement of dreams through a five-year life and career plan giving positive steps to develop a happy life as an actor and as a person. It assists performers to flourish using the same kind of business/career planning that is a necessary part of life for entrepreneurs and business people. This introduction to the acting industry provides essential knowledge not only for how the business actually works, but also describes what casting directors, agents, and managers do, demystifies the role of unions, discusses how much things cost, and offers advice on branding and marketing strategies. It differs from other such handbooks in that it addresses the everyday issues of life, money, and jobs that so frequently destroy an actor's career before it is even begun. While addressing NYC and LA, the guide also gives a regional breakdown for those actors who may wish to begin careers or to settle in other cities. It is loaded with personal stories, and interviews with actors, casting directors, and agents from throughout the US. The Actor's Business Plan is the answer to the common complaint by students that they were not taught how to negotiate the show business world while at school. It is the perfect antidote for this problem and can easily fit into a ten or a thirteen-week class syllabus. Offering support as a personal career coach, empowering the actor to take concrete steps towards their life and career dreams, The Actor's Business Plan: A Career Guide for the Acting Life is a must-have book for actors who are determined to be a part of the professional world .

Author : Timothy Mooney
Publisher : Tmrt Press
ISBN 13 : 9780983181200
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Acting at the Speed of Life written by Timothy Mooney and published by Tmrt Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Acting students all over the United States have the three steps of Tim Mooney's Hamlet exercise indelibly imprinted in their brain! In a brief two-hour session, this workshop completely upends the way performers look at dialogue! With Acting at the Speed of Life, Mooney goes beyond his hugely successful master class, to share Secrets of Theatrical Power! The results are immediate, for anyone seeking to boost the power of their 'presence' in public!" -- Back cover.

Author : Yoshi Oida
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350148288
Total Pages : 123 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Invisible Actor written by Yoshi Oida and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-01 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Invisible Actor presents the captivating and unique methods of the distinguished Japanese actor and director, Yoshi Oida. While a member of Peter Brook's theatre company in Paris, Yoshi Oida developed a masterful approach to acting that combined the oriental tradition of supreme and studied control with the Western performer's need to characterise and expose depths of emotion. Written with Lorna Marshall, Yoshi Oida explains that once the audience becomes openly aware of the actor's method and becomes too conscious of the actor's artistry, the wonder of performance dies. The audience must never see the actor but only his or her performance. Throughout Lorna Marshall provides contextual commentary on Yoshi Oida's work and methods. In a new foreword to accompany the Bloomsbury Revelations edition, Yoshi Oida revisits the questions that have informed his career as an actor and explores how his skilful approach to acting has shaped the wider contours of his life.

Author : Jeff Seymour
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780692210253
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Real Life Actor written by Jeff Seymour and published by . This book was released on 2014-05-02 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a sense that permeates most acting classes which promotes the idea that acting is hard and you need to do a bunch of traditional steps if you're ever going to get anywhere. The flame of this concept is kept lit for two reasons. One is tradition. Successful actors and teachers in our theatrical history supposedly believed in or espoused such ideas and two; it is easier for teachers and actors to follow a path that is well worn. Actors feel intimidated to challenge the ideas and teachings of past masters. But isn't that exactly how every field of endeavor evolves? Think of where we'd be in science or medicine or sports if no one questioned past methods or tried to discover new ones. This book will show you an approach that is direct and to the point, an approach that will be far easier to remember and utilize. We'll use real life. We call it acting only because people are watching. "If you're an actor, this book will restore your sanity." Steven Pressfield, Author: The War of Art, Turning Pro, The Legend of Bagger Vance

Author : Cliff Osmond
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780578069425
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Acting Is Living written by Cliff Osmond and published by . This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cliff Osmond, Hollywood actor, teacher, director and award-winning writer, with more than forty-five years of experience at the highest levels of his craft, offers his unique and perceptive thoughts on acting. "There is no such thing as 'acting, ' there is only life. What the actor must do is make sure that his life pccurs excitingly, on demand, within the narrow confines of a script, and in front of an audience." The rest is clarification. To aid actors in the their quest for excellence, Mr. Osmond discusses his "Ten Elements in Any Successful Performance," a clearly defined set of principles that enable the performer to transcend any sense of false 'acting' and move to an exciting performance reality. Part memoir, part theoretical analysis, part practical handbook, "Acting is Living" is a comprehensive, step-by-step guide for the actor, one that both beginning and experienced performers will refer to over-and-over in their lifetime of acting efforts

Author : Paul Marcus
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780874620696
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theater as Life written by Paul Marcus and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rather than focus on the well-known truism that great plays and dramatic performances can deeply transform and ennoble us, this explores how actors and actresses learn dramatic performance as an art, profession and way of life. Drawing from the psychological insights of Constantin Stanislavski and other master teachers, as well as performers like Lawrence Olivier, this is the first book that makes the actors magical soul craft into a character accessible and applicable to real-life.

Author : Jack Frakes
Publisher : Meriwether Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Acting for Life written by Jack Frakes and published by Meriwether Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of all the arts, drama -- with its exploration of human characters and relationships -- is closest to everyday life. This textbook emphasises this connection presenting the fundamentals of drama and acting techniques in the context of ordinary experiences and interactions. The material is arranged sequentially especially with the drama teacher in mind. Subjects progress from basic stage and acting terminology, to more advanced lessons on acting theories. Each chapter includes exercises, activities and discussion questions carefully selected to reinforce the text. Excellent for use with both advanced as well as beginning acting students.

Author : Emmanuelle Chaulet
Publisher : A Balancing Act E. Chaulet
ISBN 13 : 097990630X
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Balancing Act written by Emmanuelle Chaulet and published by A Balancing Act E. Chaulet. This book was released on 2008 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A holistic approach to acting. This book presents acting as a mind, body and spirit practice and actors as emotional athletes, spiritual stuntmen and stuntwomen exposed to a constant roller coaster of emotions. Going beyond where Michael Chekhov left off, it offers new acting techniques using discoveries from holistic and energy healing modalities. Answering an urgent -yet never addressed-need, this book offers invaluable tools to heal post-performance stress disorder and cutting edge information about recovering your Highest Creative Self, the essence of your character, and true emotional balance. Lisa Dalton, Co-founder, International Michael Chekhov Association, Award-Winning Actor/Producer/Director and Co-founder and Certifying Board, National Michael Chekhov Association wrote the Foreword. She says: "It is rare to find a subject that urgently needs to be discussed and about which too little is written. The need to train the entire being of the performing artist is just such a subject. Emmanuelle Chaulet's A Balancing Act is a godsend to performing artists of any sort. Knowing how to Energize allows us to endure and even thrive during the rise and fall, the constant state of transformation, the juggling of feelings, styles, jobs, and colleagues while maintaining an even keel." "Truly some of the freshest and most innovative 21st century contributions to the art of acting." says Mel Shrawder NYC AEA/SAG actor, Former Head of Performance, University of Miami, and faculty at the Michael Chekhov Acting Studio in NYC.

Author : Bernard Hiller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781457517358
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stop Acting, Start Living written by Bernard Hiller and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stop Acting Start Living is the culmination of 35 years of performing and teaching experience around the globe. Hollywood Acting teacher and Success coach Bernard Hiller has worked with Jeff Goldblum, LL Cool J, Lindsay Lohan, Billy Crystal, Chace Crawford, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Emilio Rivera among many others. Bernard coached Cameron Diaz for her first big audition "The Mask" with Jim Carrey, which launched her career. His revolutionary techniques have changed the course of lives and careers. There has never been a book available that takes the acting techniques of a Hollywood star-maker and teaches business people how to become stars in their lives and careers. Bernard is the only coach who combines acting technique, life coaching, and success training in an entirely new and transformative way. Leonardo DiCaprio, CAA, Samuel L Jackson and other stars recommend him as the premier acting teacher in town. April Webster-Star Wars... "I have seen first hand how his techniques instantly improves your talent." Bruce Dern.. "There is no class like it in America."