Lessons: The Craft of Acting: Truthful Human Behavior on Stage or Screen
Language: English
Published by Meriwether Pub, 2006
- Softcover
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- Title
- Lessons: The Craft of Acting: Truthful Human Behavior on Stage or Screen
- Author
- Tom Isbell
- Publisher
- Meriwether Pub
- Publication year
- 2006
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1566081114
- ISBN 13
- 9781566081115
Tom Isbell wants you to know that this is definitely not a 'how-to' book on acting. In fact, he abhors how-to books for the arts. Still, this book is meant to improve your acting skills by developing your awareness as an actor-awareness both of yourself and those around you. By understanding what is worth pursuing, what is worth remembering, and what is worth letting go of, you can acquire knowledge about acting which will increase your skill level. This book is a series of 100 plain-speaking, highly readable lessons that convey the big and little truths of acting. Divided into 5 sections-Approach, Fundamentals, Classes and Rehearsals, Performance, and Final Lessons-Isbell presents this as a true acting book that focuses on allowing the natural artist to evolve, grow and mature, finding his or her own voice. If you're new to acting, these 100 lessons should provide a foundation on which you can build your acting life. If you've been acting for a while, these lessons should confirm what you already know deep within you but perhaps haven't yet voiced.
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About the Author
He has written and performed three one-person plays, including "Me & JFK," which has been produced in New York, Los Angeles and Egypt. With John Ahart, he co-authored "Walt Whitman and the Civil War," which premiered at the Great American People Show in 1995.
As a director, Isbell has taken two productions to the Kennedy Center as part of the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival (KCACTF): "Dear Finder," a documentary play about the Holocaust, and "The Movie Game," written by Adam Hummel. He is the former National Playwriting Program chair for Region V of KCACTF.
An associate professor at the University of Minnesota Duluth, he was recently named the Albert Tezla Scholar/Teacher of the Year, as well as a Horace T. Morse Distinguished Teacher, the highest undergraduate teaching honor given within the University of Minnesota. He is happily married to Pat Isbell, who is both an actress and elementary school teacher.
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