The Actor's Checklist: Creating the Complete Character

Rosary O'Neill

ISBN 10: 0030731429 ISBN 13: 9780030731426

Publisher: Harcourt Brace College Publishers, 1992

Synopsis

This introduction to acting text provides a step-by-step organizational outline of techniques based in the Stanislavski System and presented in a 1990s context. A separate chapter is devoted to each of 10 basic principles, so the student gets a grounding in one principle before moving onto the next. Question-answer format anticipates student's questions and answers questions students may not articulate or be hesitatant to ask. Progressive exercises carried throughout the text allows students to originate and build upon a character.

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About the Author

Rosary O'Neill is the author of 21 plays most published by Samuel French, Inc. O'Neill was founding artistic director at Southern Rep Theater from 1987 to 2002. Her play "Uncle Victor" won a signing at the Consulate General Germany in New York in 2011. Recent playwriting fellowships include: the Norman Mailer House, Cape Cod, the Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Ireland, the Virginia Center for Creative Arts (Sweetbriar fellow), and the Sanskriti residency near New Delhi, India. O'Neill also was a Fulbright fellow to Germany and Paris. She is a fellow of the Actors Studio Workshop and Linsey Abrams Advanced Writing workshop. Her plays have been featured in Rattlestick Theatre, NYC; American Center, Paris; Chamber Theatre, Budapest, and the Brotfabrik Theatre, Bonn. She is playwright-in-residence at the National Arts Club, where her recent work has been developed.

Edition details

• Publisher: Harcourt Brace College Publishers
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0030731429
• ISBN 13: 9780030731426
• Binding: Misc. Supplies
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 256