Resources

Suggested Reading

Along with a regular course of scene work, the actors are encouraged to read a few eye-opening works.

• Respect for Acting
  Uta Hagen
• Audition
  Michael Shurtleff
• To the Actor
  Michael Chekhov
• Acting
  Richard Boleslavsky
• Advice to the Players
  Robert Lewise
• The Mystic in the Theatre – Eleanora Duse
  Eva Le Gallienne
• Fine On Acting
  Howard Fine
• Working Actor
  David Dean Bottrell
• Acting is Everything
  Judy Kerr

Exercises for the Actor

I also invite my students to do an exercise in class, in the event that their scene partner is unable to attend class. Here are a few of my favorites:

• I Feel
• I Feel With a Partner
• Private Moment 1
• Private Moment 2
• Fourth Wall
• Endowment
• Urgency
• Meisner Repetition
• Song and Dance
• Monologue
• Speaking Out with a Monologue
• Family Member
• Character Interview
• Immediate Family
• Effective Memory
• Animal Exercise
• Animal with Text
• Cold Reading
• Planned Improv
• Gibberish
• Painting Exercise
• Photo Exercise
• Sexuality Exercise
• True or False
• Show and Tell
• Essence

Videos & Podcasts

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