Monologue Mastery: How to Find and Perform the Perfect Monologue

(Book). Monologue Mastery is a manual and workbook for the beginning actor as well as the seasoned professional. It addresses in specific detail every phase of monologue preparation from selection to performance. It covers in great detail the three most important phases of monologue selection and performance: how to find great little-known monologues, how to find monologues that fit you perfectly, and how to act the monologue brilliantly and capture the auditors' attention. Monologue Mastery is easy reading, full of entertaining anecdotes, and intensely practical, providing a step-by-step approach to doing monologues in a very concise manner. Monologue Mastery is a handbook that actors will rely on for years to come. HIGHLIGHTS: A workbook that gives specific exercises to help the actor discover his/her type and to learn how to rehearse and prepare his/her monologue.

Prudence Wright Holmes (Bexley, OH) has been coaching actors for over twenty-five years. Her students have appeared in films, on television, on and off Broadway, and in regional theaters. She has taught at Carnegie Mellon Drama Department, NYU Drama Department, the Actor's Studio at the New School, and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. She has given workshops at the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University, the Neighborhood Playhouse, the Strasberg Institute, the Actor's Connection, Weist Baron, AFTRA, and the Screen Actor's Guild. She is the author of Monologue Mastery and Voices of Thinking Jewish Women.