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RECOMMENDED READING :

Below are a few of the books we recommend for all actors. To find more books, use the links on the left to select a category.

How To Be A Working Actor: The Insider's Guide to Finding Jobs in Theater, Film, and Television
by Mari Lyn Henry, Lynne Rogers

This celebrated survival guide for actors is still considered "the Bible of the Biz"-the most comprehensive book on the business of acting, informed by an inside view of how casting decisions are actually made-and it has now been updated and expanded to cover new on-line ways actors can promote... Read more

The Actor's Encyclopedia of Casting Directors: Conversations with Over 100 Casting Directors on How to Get the Job
by Karen Kondazian, Eddie Shapiro (Contributor), Richard Dreyfuss

Karen Kondazian has compiled inside information from talking to the premier casting directors in film, television, and commercials from New York to Los Angeles. Read more

The Camera Smart Actor
by Richard Brestoff

The author discovered on his first day of acting for a TV movie that years of experience in stage acting and graduate education can be inadequate for the technical requirements of film acting. He wrote this book in the hopes that other actors making the transition from stage to film will be better... Read more

How to Get the Part...Without Falling Apart!
by Margie Haber, Barbara Babchick (Contributor), Heather Locklear

Gene Hackman, Halle Berry, Heather Locklear, Gabriel Byrne, James Bond's Pierce Bronson, Kelly Preston, most of the cast from Melrose Place and 1000s of actors all take acting classes from Margie Haber. How to Get the Part... gives actors tools to break through their psychological roadblocks to... Read more

Cold Reading and How to Be Good at It
by Basil Hoffman

According to a lot of casting directors, cold reading is one of the areas that almost ever actor needs work in. This book is an excellent tool for improving your cold reading skills. Read more

The Ultimate Audition Book: 222 Monologues 2 Minutes and Under (Monologue Audition Series)
by Jocelyn A. Beard (Editor)

The Ultimate Audition Book is not fancy, but it's just what the working (and aspiring) actor is looking for: a treasury of well-chosen, short monologues from many time periods and sensibilities that enable an auditioner to make a positive impression fast. What could be better? Jocelyn Beard draws... Read more

 

         
 
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