The Beginner Actor's Guide: Acting for Television: A Distinct Craft Between St...

The Beginner Actor's Guide: Acting for Television: A Distinct Craft Between St...:   Television acting sits in an odd, often underappreciated middle space. It borrows the intimate, camera-calibrated naturalism of film actin...

The Beginner Actor's Guide: The Art of Film Acting: Technique, Challenge, and ...

The Beginner Actor's Guide: The Art of Film Acting: Technique, Challenge, and ...: A stage actor learns to fill a thousand-seat theater with nothing but voice and body. A film actor sometimes has to do the opposite — learn ...

The Beginner Actor's Guide: The Art of Theatre Acting: Technique, Challenge, a...

The Beginner Actor's Guide: The Art of Theatre Acting: Technique, Challenge, a...:   There's a specific, almost physical difference between watching a great film performance and sitting in a dark theater while a great s...

The Beginner Actor's Guide: Preparing for an Audition: Material, Character, an...

The Beginner Actor's Guide: Preparing for an Audition: Material, Character, an...:   An audition is a strange, compressed kind of performance — you're often given two or three minutes to demonstrate everything a casting...

The Beginner Actor's Guide: Overcoming Stage Fright: A Practical Guide to Calm...

The Beginner Actor's Guide: Overcoming Stage Fright: A Practical Guide to Calm...:   Almost everyone who has ever stood in front of an audience — actors, musicians, public speakers, and plenty of people who'd never call...

The Beginner Actor's Guide: Training Memory and Attention: What Actually Works

The Beginner Actor's Guide: Training Memory and Attention: What Actually Works:   Most advice about "boosting your brain" falls into one of two unhelpful categories: vague lifestyle platitudes dressed up as neu...

The Beginner Actor's Guide: Flexibility and Coordination: A Practical Guide to...

The Beginner Actor's Guide: Flexibility and Coordination: A Practical Guide to...: Flexibility and coordination rarely get the attention that strength and cardio do, which is a little strange given how much they actually de...

The Beginner Actor's Guide: Voice and Diction Training in the Stanislavski Tra...

The Beginner Actor's Guide: Voice and Diction Training in the Stanislavski Tra...:   A trained voice is one of the actor's most valuable pieces of equipment, and it's also one of the easiest to neglect, because mos...

The Beginner Actor's Guide: Building a Character: How Actors Actually Work on ...

The Beginner Actor's Guide: Building a Character: How Actors Actually Work on ...: Every character an audience believes in started as marks on a page — stage directions, dialogue, maybe a one-line description in a cast list...

The Beginner Actor's Guide: Emotion in Acting: How Actors Evoke It, Shape It, ...

The Beginner Actor's Guide: Emotion in Acting: How Actors Evoke It, Shape It, ...: Emotion is what separates a performance you remember from one you forget by the time you're in the parking lot. Technique, blocking, and...

The Beginner Actor's Guide: The Actor's Toolkit: Attention, Memory, Imaginatio...

The Beginner Actor's Guide: The Actor's Toolkit: Attention, Memory, Imaginatio...:   Acting draws on a strange combination of skills that don't usually get grouped together anywhere else. You need the mental discipline ...

The Beginner Actor's Guide: The Four Pillars of Acting: Action, Objective, Con...

The Beginner Actor's Guide: The Four Pillars of Acting: Action, Objective, Con...: The Four Pillars of Acting: Action, Objective, Conflict, and Truth Acting is a demanding art form that asks for talent, technique, and a stu...

The Beginner Actor's Guide: Acting: Why It Matters and What It Actually Takes

The Beginner Actor's Guide: Acting: Why It Matters and What It Actually Takes: Acting is the art of becoming someone else convincingly enough that an audience forgets, at least for a couple of hours, that they're wa...