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Thanks for visiting my bookstore! These books have been tastefully curated from my personal collection- books that I think will bless your life, align your heart, and help refuel your creative soul. Whether you're a member of FWAS or the Acting Dangerously Alliance, or not, you're definitely in the right place.
Sanford Meisner on Acting
The Art of Acting by Stella Adler
Memorization for Actors
Imagine if you could learn your lines in half the usual time yet feel confident they will roll off your tongue when needed.
Memorization for Actors provides you with a range of practical psychology tools and a bullet-proof memorization process that will put you miles ahead of the competition.
Read this book and discover:
• How you can become a master at learning your lines
• Simple tricks to learn more lines in less time
• Advanced tools to turbo-charge your memorization process
• Proven strategies to remember your lines in high stress situations
• When to schedule your memorization sessions for maximum effect, and more…
Short enough to read in an afternoon, yet jam-packed with practical advice, Memorization for Actors will transform your acting career.
Alexa Ispas holds a PhD in psychology from the University of Edinburgh. The books in her Psychology for Actors Series provide actors with proven psychology techniques to thrive and build a successful career.
Acting in Film by Michael Caine
Audition by Michael Shurtleff
Nathan's upcoming book ... Preorder announcement coming soon.
The Stanislavski System by Sonia Moore
Practical tips, techniques, and exercises to help you become a better actor
This essential guide to the Stanislavski method has long been a favorite among acting students and teachers. This updated edition includes a revised section on the subtext of a role, along with detailed explanations of all the methods that actors in training have found indispensable for decades, including:
• Emotional memory
• Physical actions on stage
• Imagination
• Concentration of attention
• Tempo-rhythm
• Building a character
An Actor Prepares by Constantin Stanislavski
Stanislavski's simple exercises fire the imagination, and help readers not only discover their own conception of reality but how to reproduce it as well.
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In College circles, this book is referred to as "Stanislavski Book A." Let's start at the very beginning.
Building a Character by Constantin Stanislavski
Book B. Building a Character is one of the three volumes that make up Stanislavski’s The Acting Trilogy.
An Actor Prepares explores the inner preparation an actor must undergo in order to explore a role to the full. In this volume, Sir John Gielgud said, this great director “found time to explain a thousand things that have always troubled actors and fascinated students.”
Building a Character discusses the external techniques of acting: the use of the body, movement, diction, singing, expression, and control.
Creating a Role by Constantin Stanislavski
Book C. Creating a Role is the culmination of Stanislavski's masterful trilogy on the art of acting. An Actor Prepares focused on the inner training of an actor's imagination. Building a Character detailed how the actor's body and voice could be tuned for the great roles he might fill.
This third volume examines the development of a character from the viewpoint of three widely contrasting plays: Griboyedov's Woe from Wit, Shakespeare's Othello, and Gogol's The Inspector General. Building on the first two books, Stanislavski demonstrates how a fully realized character is born in three stages: "studying it; establishing the life of the role; putting it into physical form."
On the Technique of Acting by Chekov
The most authoritative, authentic text of a classic guide to acting
In the four decades since its first publication, Michael Chekhov's To the Actor has become a standard text for students of the theater. But To the Actor is a shortened, heavily modified version of the great director/actor/teacher's original manuscript, and On the Technique of Acting is the first and only book ever to incorporate the complete text of that brilliant manuscript. Scholars and teachers of Chekhov's technique have hailed On the Technique of Acting as the clearest, most accurate presentation of the principles he taught Yul Brynner, Gregory Peck, Marilyn Monroe, Anthony Quinn, Beatrice Straight, and Mala Powers, among others.
Beautifully written by Jay Williams in 1969.
A Vision of the Craft, Fine on Acting
Heralded as "Best Acting Teacher in LA" by Backstage magazine, Hollywood’s most sought after acting teacher, Howard Fine, reveals the winning technique that has garnered his students international acclaim and the industry’s highest honors in his astonishing first book FINE ON ACTING. In this revised edition, Fine expands on his technique to meet the needs of today's working actor.
During his twenty-five years as a teacher and director, Fine has developed a technique that is both useful and exciting. Emmy Award®-winning actor Michael Chiklis writes in the foreword for FINE ON ACTING, “You’ve purchased this book because you either aspire to be an actor or want to be a better one. Either way you’ve made a wonderful decision. Howard Fine is a great teacher. His philosophy and approach to the craft of acting are the most helpful, encouraging and practically applicable I’ve ever encountered.”
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