A Life-coaching Approach to Screen Acting (Paperback)

Daniel Dresner

ISBN 10: 1350039438 / ISBN 13: 9781350039438

Published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, London, 2018

About this Item

Paperback. Combining life-coaching and screen-acting tools and techniques in one accessible handbook, this guide empowers actors to overcome personal inhibitions and approach their work, characters and careers with the assuredness to produce powerful, real and believable acting on screen.Structured to build confidence and understanding of yourself before you take on the role of someone else, this book offers the tools and techniques to give you the necessary conviction and self-assurance to perform uninhibited. Dresner then examines essential elements of a screen actors craft, such as emotions, imagination, nerves, focus, listening, improvisation and line-learning.Published in partnership with The Actors Centre, the book includes online videos of coaching sessions with professional actors and is ideal for readers and teachers looking to replicate the method in their own training. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Life-coaching Approach to Screen Acting (Paperback)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, London
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1350039438
• ISBN 13: 9781350039438
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

About this title

Synopsis

Combining life-coaching and screen-acting tools and techniques in one accessible handbook, this guide empowers actors to overcome personal inhibitions and approach their work, characters and careers with the assuredness to produce powerful, real and believable acting on screen. Structured to build confidence and understanding of yourself before you take on the role of someone else, this book offers the tools and techniques to give you the necessary conviction and self-assurance to perform uninhibited. Dresner then examines essential elements of a screen actor’s craft, such as emotions, imagination, nerves, focus, listening, improvisation and line-learning. Published in partnership with The Actor’s Centre, the book includes online videos of coaching sessions with professional actors and is ideal for readers and teachers looking to replicate the method in their own training.

About the Author

Daniel Dresner is a leading UK acting coach. He regularly teaches at the Actors Centre and drama schools as well as coaching privately. His clients range from actors starting out to Hollywood stars. His approach has been developed over more than 20 years as an actor, director, teacher and life coach in London, New York and Tokyo. He studied the Method at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute in New York and life coaching with the Coaches Training Institute.