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The best books for actors, directors and all artists!
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items After teaching acting for 20 years. Here is a list of my absolute favorites for actors, directors and working artists!
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BEST BOOKS FOR WORKING ARTISTS
BEST BOOKS FOR WORKING ARTISTS
Stella Adler was one of the 20th Century's greatest figures. She is arguably the most important teacher of acting in American history.
The Art of Acting
Since its original publication in 1973, Uta Hagen's Respect for Acting has remained a durable classic for all students of acting.
Respect for Acting: Expanded Edition
William Esper, one of the leading acting teachers of our time, explains and extends Sanford Meisner's legendary technique, offering a clear, concrete, step-by-step approach to becoming a truly creative actor.
The Actor's Art and Craft: Meisner Technique
Sanford Meisner was one of the best known and beloved teachers of acting in the country. This audiobook follows one of his acting classes for 15 months, beginning with the most rudimentary exercises and ending with affecting and polished scenes from ...
Sanford Meisner on Acting
The Art of Stillness is a lively, critical study of one of the most important and uncompromising figures in contemporary world theater.
The Art of Stillness: Tadashi Suzuki
“Entertaining and illuminating.”—The New Yorker * “Compulsively readable.”—New York Times * “Delicious, humane, probing.”—Vulture * “The best and most important book about acting I’ve ever read.”—Nathan Lane
The Method: How the 20th Century Learned to Act
In this essential guide to acting, internationally renowned directing coach Judith Weston demonstrates what constitutes a good performance, what actors want from a director, and what directors do wrong. She also goes over script analysis and preparat...
Directing Actors
This guide to play reading for students and practitioners of both theater and literature complements, rather than contradicts or repeats, traditional methods of literary analysis of scripts.
Backwards & Forwards: Reading Plays Manual
In The Actor Speaks, Patsy Rodenburg takes actors and actresses, both professional and beginners, through a complete voice workshop. She touches on every aspect of performance work that involves the voice and sorts through the kinds of vexing problem...
The Actor Speaks: Voice and the Performer
This updated edition includes plenty of new exercises for honing on-camera skills; additional chapters on imagination and movement; and fresh material on character development, monologues, visual focus, playing comedy and working with directors. Insi...
Acting for the Camera: Revised Edition
This book describes a technique developed and refined by the authors, all of them young actors, in their work with Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Mamet, actor W. H. Macy, and director Gregory Mosher. A Practical Handbook for the Actor is wri...
A Practical Handbook for the Actor
Some years ago, Frank Hauser, then a retired freelance director, and writer Russell Reich, his former student, self-published Notes on Directing in hardcover. It was immediately acclaimed as “a gem-witty and full of insight;” “so sensible, so complet...
Notes on Directing: 130 Leadership Lessons
An essential companion for actors in rehearsal - a thesaurus of action words to revitalize performance.
Actions: The Actors' Thesaurus
An Actor’s Work on a Role is Konstantin Stanislavsky’s classic exploration of the rehearsal process, applying the techniques of his seminal actor training system to the task of bringing life and truth to one’s role.
An Actor's Work on a Role