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Patsy Rodenburg uses practical exercises and textual analysis to hone in on your dramatic resonance, breathing and placement in order to unlock your potential for playing these iconic characters. Combining clear practical, textual and imaginative work with a brilliant analysis of scenes and speeches from the whole range of Shakespeare's plays, this is an essential and inspiring guide for anyone working on his plays today.

V-Oh! Reveals hundreds of practical and insightful tools that any voice actor-- from newbie to seasoned pro-- can use to give them an advantage in the competitive world of voiceover. Award-winning producer Marc Cashman takes his 40+ years of experience in V-O production and examines it from different perspectives, offering new angles on mastering necessary skills, dealing with the business side of the industry, and showcasing realistic ways of navigating through the landscape of voiceover in the 21st century.

Voice actors across the globe rely on commercials as a good source of income, but success in this area of the voice over industry can be tricky. VO talent need a strong understanding of the many elements involved in delivering captivating, original commercial reads. Commercial Voice Over Strategies: Tell a Story, Land the Job is the answer. Veteran voice talent Chris Agos walks you through a step-by-step way of ensuring your reads will resonate with talent buyers.

As one of the world's leading voice coaches, Patsy Rodenburg describes practical ways to approach language, using Shakespeare, Romantic poetry, modern prose and a range of other texts to help each of us discover our own unique need for words. Drawing on Rodenburg's time spent coaching in the worlds of business and politics, this edition reflects on how the way we use words has changed since the book was first published.

With clarity and insight, Richard Brestoff introduces the great acting teachers, explaining their techniques and how they are applied today. Beginning with Quintilian and Delsarte, he guides us to the present with an inside look at what is currently being taught in the major acting schools and private acting studios; The Actors Studio, Yale University, NYU, Juilliard and many more are visited. The Great Acting Teachers and Their Methods will help you understand the most important ideas about acting, where they originated and how they are used in training programs today.

Based on the popular workshop of the same name, Audition Psych 101 takes a detailed, unvarnished look at the mental gremlins that can make auditioning stressful. With frankness, humor, and a pro-actor sensibility, professional working actor Michael Kostroff (The Wire, The Deuce, Luke Cage, The Blacklist, Law & Order: SVU, etc.) explodes commonly accepted mythologies and offers a fresh, more logical, and more effective approach to the whole process.

1 Minute Monologues for Acting Class is a practical resource designed for students and teachers of acting. This collection offers a wide range of original, one-minute monologues crafted to challenge, inspire, and develop performance skills. Each piece is concise yet emotionally rich, giving actors the opportunity to showcase character, intention, and depth within a short time frame. Perfect for classroom exercises, auditions, and practice, these monologues encourage students to focus on clarity, authenticity, and versatility in performance.

If you've decided to ignore your family's wise advice to get a "real job" instead of pursuing acting, prove them all wrong by picking this book up. If the world needs another actor (you), then you need this deep dive into building an acting career, written by the storied and acclaimed voice actor and director Joel McDonald (Borderlands 3, Tiny Tina's Wonderland, New Tales from the Borderlands, One Piece, My Hero Academia, Space Dandy.)Learn what to do and what not to do to craft the acting career you've always dreamed about.

Learn the ins and outs of how to get started in Voice-Over, including: microphone etiquette, how to make some of the most common noises and sounds (you might be surprised), working with copy, creating a demo reel, what to expect in the studio, the business of the business and much more. This is, hands down, the most comprehensive book on Voice-Over available. From beginners to pros, you’ll find value in Debi’s wealth of knowledge. Her tips and advice are the gems that only a true industry veteran and hard-working professional would know. Now she’s sharing it all with you!

Mastering the Texas Accent is an essential audiobook for actors seeking to develop a genuine Texas accent, ideal for film, theater, and voiceover roles. This guide provides an in-depth exploration of the Texas dialect, starting with the foundational elements that give this regional accent its unique character. Listeners will learn how to modify vowels, drop certain consonants, and adopt the characteristic Texas drawl that makes speech from the Lone Star State instantly recognizable.

Act: The Modern Actor’s Handbook is the result of 30 years of one of North America’s most renowned acting teachers teaching some of the world's most talented screen actors. This is a full tour through the concepts at the heart of Rotenberg’s techniques: states of being, primaries and secondaries, images that you elaborate up or distill down, modifiers, actions and beats, and more. Although his methods loosely draw on the great acting teachers like Hagen and Meisner back to Stanislavski, he teaches new techniques suited to the best of today’s screen actors.

The long-awaited autobiography of one of Britain’s best-loved actors. Born the son of a Billingsgate market porter at the height of the Second World War, David Jason spent his early life dodging bombs and bullies, both with impish good timing.

From Tony Blair and David Frost to Aziraphale and Hamlet, Michael Sheen has taken on a host of iconic roles, inhabiting each one with complete conviction. But – whether he’s transforming himself into real figures or bringing fictional ones to life – how does he go about immersing himself in his characters? The answer lies in an obscure Russian theatre technique that has evolved to become a central plank of modern-day acting training.

The poster-child victim of a dysfunctional family from Beech Grove, Indiana, Steve McQueen experienced an unsettled early life with a rebellious and alcoholic mother. McQueen channeled his difficult childhood into a masterful career on screen portraying tough, self-sufficient characters in such iconic films as The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape, The Sand Pebbles, Bullitt, and Papillon.

It's 2020, and the acting business has changed dramatically, no thanks to Covid-19. There are over 538 scripted shows on television that are now on hiatus. Amazon, Hulu and Netflix have changed the game for television, giving actors more opportunities than ever before. There are over 60 shows currently casting or filming out of New York, many more in Los Angeles, as well as in other emerging markets. Casting directors are hiring actors from self-tapes more than ever before, and actors need to be ready to turn around an amazing audition on a dime. It’s ultra-competitive, and actors need to...

This inspirational voice-over guide will teach you how to take control of your career with the power of positive thinking. Rodney Saulsberry shares his methods to turn fear and self-doubt into confidence and success. Plus, get advice from many of the top voice-over performers in the business that include Don LaFontaine, The King of Movie Trailers and Nancy Cartwright, the voice of Bart Simpson.

Si deseas mejorar tus habilidades como actor o actriz, ahora puedes aprender de manera accesible y dinámica con la versión audiolibro de este Manual Práctico de Actuación para Principiantes. Descubre poderosas técnicas para tu formación profesional en las artes escénicas, con una guía clara y detallada que te ayudará a dar tus primeros pasos en el mundo del teatro y el cine. Escucha, practica y sumérgete en el arte de la interpretación con este recurso diseñado para acompañarte en cada paso de tu camino como actor o actriz.

For more than 50 years Michael Green's The Art of Coarse Acting has been essential reading for anyone with a passion for theatre, both amateurs and professionals alike. This acerbic yet affectionate work remains one of the funniest books about acting ever written. It's a "[W]ickedly irreverent" (The Stage) exposé which ridicules pretentiousness, pokes fun at incompetence and disaster and generally lays bare life backstage. Even after all this time it remains true that however much the theatre may change, coarse actors don't.

Philip Carlson was the first agent to sign Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Billy Crudup, Liev Schreiber, Claire Danes, Idris Elba, Kyra Sedgwick, Adrien Grenier, and Paul Giamatti. He has represented Viola Davis, Kathy Bates, Brian Dennehy, and W.H. Macy among many and gifted others. He shares his practical trade secrets in this extraordinarily comprehensive guide on how to get into show business.

Are you here because you've been told you have a 'great voice’? Are you pivoting, just starting out or have you been in the industry for a while and hit a wall? Are you feeling a little lost, isolated, or struggling with consistency? You're in the right place. Twenty-two professionals give their best insights on the voice over industry. Bypass years of trial and error and learn from those that have been where you want to be.