Secret Magic Stuff for Actors - Book, Stephen
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"Every film or stage actor at some point confronts a problem to be solved. Stephen Book's Secret Magic Stuff for Actors is an extraordinary reference book of unique and powerful solutions. If you need to respond to a director's note, relate differently to a scene partner, read the script from a different perspective, or any of forty-four different problems, you can consult Book's table of contents and easily find appropriate tips. The book includes "Special Stuff" -- seven remarkably useful tools unfamiliar to most actors. They will enable you to instantly create the emotions of your choice,…mehr

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"Every film or stage actor at some point confronts a problem to be solved. Stephen Book's Secret Magic Stuff for Actors is an extraordinary reference book of unique and powerful solutions. If you need to respond to a director's note, relate differently to a scene partner, read the script from a different perspective, or any of forty-four different problems, you can consult Book's table of contents and easily find appropriate tips. The book includes "Special Stuff" -- seven remarkably useful tools unfamiliar to most actors. They will enable you to instantly create the emotions of your choice, think spontaneously as the character instead of for the character, and discover the character's physicality, personality, and essence. Secret Magic Stuff for Actors will open a world of possibilities"--
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Stephen Book is an acting teacher, coach, and director best known for creating Improvisation Technique: improvisational acting applied to scripted performances for film, stage, and television. In 1985 he opened the Stephen Book Acting Workshop in Hollywood, now in its 39th year. His students have included Academy Award winners William Hurt, Rita Moreno, and Robin Williams, as well as Val Kilmer, Maura Tierney, Sanaa Lathan, Carla Gugino, Tim Matheson, Valerie Mahaffey, Malcolm Jamal-Warner, David Boreanaz, Tate Donovan, Janis Paige, Larry Drake, Kurtwood Smith, William Schallert, Grant Heslov, and stand-up comics George Carlin, Adam Ferrara, and Christopher Titus. Stephen has also coached singers for roles in film and TV including Randy Travis, Michael Hutchence (INXS), Mindy McCready, and Ozzie Osbourne. He was creative consultant to Melissa Manchester on her Grammy-nominated "Don't Cry Out Loud" and to the director Vincent Ward on the Oscar winning film What Dreams May Come, starring Robin Williams. As an undergraduate at Sarah Lawrence College, Stephen studied with the legendary Viola Spolin. They later co-designed the Spolin Theater Game Center in Hollywood, where he served as executive director and principal teacher. He received an MFA in directing at Stanford University and studied with Lee Strasberg in the Directors Unit at the Actors Studio. At the age of twenty-eight, he joined the faculty of The Juilliard School (1973-1981). He has also taught at Stanford, Brown, Bread Loaf School of English, USC (1977-1991), UCLA, the Esalen Institute, Circle in the Square Theater School, in London at the Globe Shakespeare Center, and in Moscow at both the Russian state theater school (GITIS) and as keynote speaker at the international conference on Modern Methods of the Actor's Psychotechnique at the Stanislavsky Center. He has directed productions Off Broadway and in regional and university theaters, including Washington Theater Club, Los Angeles Actors Theater, Stanford Repertory Theater, Equity Library Theatre, New Dramatists, Princeton, Brown, Sarah Lawrence, USC, and the Theater of Dionysus in Athens. His books include Book on Acting: Improvisation Technique for the Professional Actor in Film, Theater and Television (also translated and published in Poland) and The Actor Takes a Meeting.