Whether you’re a recent graduate, a young actor or an experienced professional, The Actor’s Career Bible will help you kick-start or reinvigorate your career in an industry famous for its high levels of competition. This in-depth guide will show you how to cope with the pressures and strains of being an actor and offers easy-to-follow advice on how to improve your chances of success.

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When Oscar-winning actors Helen Hunt and Hilary Swank accepted their Academy Awards, each credited Larry Moss’s guidance as key to their career-making performances. There is a two-year waiting list for his advanced acting classes. But now everyone-professionals and amateurs alike-can discover Moss’s passionate, in-depth teaching.

Inviting you to join him in the classroom and onstage, Moss shares the techniques he has developed over thirty years to help actors set their emotions, imagination, and behavior on fire, showing how the hard work of preparation pays off in performances that are spontaneous, fresh, and authentic.

From the foundations of script analysis to the nuances of physicalization and sensory work, here are the case studies, exercises, and insights that enable you to connect personally with a script, develop your character from the inside out, overcome fear and inhibition, and master the technical skills required for success in the theater, television, and movies.

Far more than a handbook, The Intent to Live is the personal credo of a master teacher. Moss’s respect for actors and love of the actor’s craft enliven every page, together with examples from a wealth of plays and films, both current and classic, and vivid appreciations of great performances. Whether you act for a living or simply want a deeper understanding of acting greatness, The Intent to Live will move, instruct, and inspire you.

From the Hardcover edition.

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Funny Donald Trump with American Flag Actor Notebook University Graduation gift a 120 pages Notebook featuring You Are An Amazing Actor Simply Fantastic All the Other Actors Total Disasters Everyone Agree Believe Me a Matte-finish cover.

Perfect gift for parents, grandparents, kids, boys, girls, youth and teens as an Actor journal gift.

• 120 pages
• 6″”x9″”
• White-color paper
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Are you an Actor ? Are you looking for a gift for your parents or relatives that works as an Actor ? Then you need to buy this gift for your brother, sister, Auntie and celebrate their birthday. Great Actor gift for graduation .
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This is the first book in the series of short one to three-minute exercises for young actors. This first volume contains one hundred eleven scenes of different levels of difficulty for actors as young as six years old to late teens and young adults.

Each generation deserves its own voice. Therefore, in contrast to other acting books written for teens by adults, this book was written by their peer.

Each scene is provided with a b-code that describes for what age range and gender identification it is suitable to be performed. Scenes were constructed in a way that it would be easy for the young actor to perform them with their acting coach, parent or colleague.

All scenes are formatted according to the standard script formatting guidelines.

The paper version of this book is intentionally printed on non-glossy paper and is meant to be scribbled on. Please make it your own, take it with you to your acting lesson, and put your thoughts and findings in pencil or ink.

Please note that this book is published not-for-profit the collection is provided in electronic form to patrons so they can support the website https://www.bcacting.com.

At the time of publishing (October 2023) All of scenes in this book can be downloaded for free from the official website https://www.bcacting.com where they were originally published between April and September 2023.

“Your Dog Ate My Shoe” is a citation from one of the very first scenes written for this book. The subtitle of the book “Etudes For Young Actors Op. 1” is inspired by music books, étude in French means an exercise, and opus is a collection of works. As actors use their bodies as an instrument to perform truthful emotions, there’s no better subtitle that I could imagine.

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Are you looking for a great productive Acting Journal to keep track of your Acting performance? Then this Acting Journal is perfect for you or someone you want to gift.

Features:

• Cover Finish: Beautiful Matte Cover.
• Dimensions: (6″ x 9″) Inches
• Interior: White Paper
• Pages: 120

This Acting Journal is Best For:

• Actors/Actresses
• Magicians
• Singers
• Students

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Features:

• Size: 8.5 x11 inches with 100 pages
• Perfect size for school or personal use
• Glossy, sturdy, paperback cover with premium design

Here is your opportunity to write down all those great stories in one easy to use journal with over 100 blank lined pages.

You can also write down your goals, contacts, and who you need to meet on your road to success.

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His clients rave:

“He saw more in me than I saw in myself.” – Kyra Sedgwick

“A great and resonant canyon of thanks to Philip Carlson for his invaluable work with a generation of young talent – including me.” – Billy Crudup

“Philip Carlson is one of the wisest people on the subject of building a career that will last. Luck didn’t have him representing New York’s top character actors; wisdom, intelligence, patience and loyalty did. He was, and is, as good as it gets.” – Tim Blake Nelson

“Philip Carlson was my ‘Guide in shining armor!’ Smart, honest and hardworking, this book is his thinking and experience on a shelf.” – Idris Elba

“I was so fortunate to have found Philip when I did. I can’t imagine a better introduction to the world of acting and the business of getting there.” – Liev Schreiber

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Do you want to build momentum with your acting career?

Discover psychology techniques to stop procrastinating and increase your productivity so you can take your acting career to the next level.

Being motivated is essential to becoming a successful actor.

Actors must often juggle bill-paying jobs and other commitments for years before getting their big break.

If you are not highly motivated, you will get lost among the crowd of hopefuls, no matter how talented you are.

Motivated actors are a joy to work with and energize everyone around them.

They often start their own projects, so they don’t just rely on outside work, and they continuously develop their craft, making themselves more employable.

If you are wondering how to reach this high level of motivation consistently, psychology can help.

Psychologists have uncovered the principles behind human motivation and developed simple yet powerful techniques to increase your productivity.

Motivation for Actors distills these psychological insights specifically for actors using clear and jargon-free language.

Read this book and discover:

• How to build momentum and overcome resistance
• How to beat procrastination and get things done
• Mistakes actors make when trying to get motivated
• How to turn boring into fun
• Practical tools you can use straight away

Short enough to read in an afternoon, yet jam-packed with practical advice, Motivation for Actors will help you take control of your acting career and spur you on towards unstoppable momentum.

Alexa Ispas holds a PhD in psychology from the University of Edinburgh. The books in her Psychology for Actors Series provide actors with proven psychology techniques to thrive and build a successful career.

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Featuring contributions and insights from Ewan McGregor, Jude Law, Judi Dench, Al Pacino, Lily James, Rufus Norris and many more, The Outstanding Actor gives you techniques that you can immediately put into practice in rehearsals, classes or private preparation. It also shows you how to increase the chances of having a more successful career.

This new edition covers topical issues such as the #MeToo movement, gender balance and race issues, and how these affect working conditions and careers. There are also brand new links to video resources that bring the valuable exercises to life.

The book also includes forewords by Damian Lewis and Lily James.

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Imagine if you could learn your lines in half the usual time yet feel confident they will roll off your tongue when needed.

Memorization for Actors provides you with a range of practical psychology tools and a bullet-proof memorization process that will put you miles ahead of the competition.

Read this book and discover:
• How you can become a master at learning your lines
• Simple tricks to learn more lines in less time
• Advanced tools to turbo-charge your memorization process
• Proven strategies to remember your lines in high stress situations
• When to schedule your memorization sessions for maximum effect, and more…

Short enough to read in an afternoon, yet jam-packed with practical advice, Memorization for Actors will transform your acting career.

Alexa Ispas holds a PhD in psychology from the University of Edinburgh. The books in her Psychology for Actors Series provide actors with proven psychology techniques to thrive and build a successful career.

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Do you want to achieve your full potential as an actor?

Discover how to apply “deliberate practice”–a type of practice used by top performers around the world–to turn your weaknesses into strengths.

We all know that becoming a great actor requires hard work, but what specific actions will help you get better?

Perhaps you have spent years taking acting classes without any noticeable improvement.

Or maybe your acting did improve for a while, but you don’t know how to make further progress.

This lack of clarity is likely to lead to dissatisfaction and a decline in your enthusiasm for the craft.

After all, nobody goes into acting aiming for mediocrity.

If this sounds familiar, psychology can help.

For many years, psychologists have been studying the process by which those dedicated to their craft achieve mastery.

The biggest reveal of this exploration has been “deliberate practice,” a process through which you can turn your weaknesses into strengths.

The impact of deliberate practice has been demonstrated by a wide variety of top performers, including athletes, musicians, and chess masters.

Excellence for Actors is the first book to explore the application of deliberate practice to acting. Reading this book will provide you with a new level of clarity about how to reach your full potential.

As you will learn, achieving excellence is not just about hard work, but also about taking the right actions with the right amount of dedication.

Read this book and discover:

• How to achieve mastery over any aspect of your craft
• How to turn your weaknesses into strengths
• How to avoid mediocrity and achieve excellence
• The mistakes actors make when trying to improve
• Practical tools you can use straight away

Short enough to read in an afternoon, yet jam-packed with practical advice, Excellence for Actors will give you the clarity you need to reach your full potential.

Alexa Ispas holds a PhD in psychology from the University of Edinburgh. The books in her Psychology for Actors Series provide actors with proven psychology techniques to thrive and build a successful career.

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It is the only directory to provide detailed information for each listing and specific advice on how to approach companies and individuals, saving hours of further research. From agents and casting directors to producing theatres, showreel companies, photographers and much more, this essential reference book editorially selects only the most relevant and reputable contacts for the industry.

Covering training and working in theatre, film, radio, TV and comedy, it contains invaluable resources such as a casting calendar and articles on a range of topics from your social media profile to what drama schools are looking for to financial and tax issues.

With the listings updated every year, the Actors’ and Performers’ Yearbook continues to be the go-to guide for help with auditions, interviews and securing/sustaining work within the industry.

Actors’ and Performers’ Yearbook 2024 is fully updated and includes a newly commissioned article by actor Mark Weinman, a new foreword, 4 new interviews by casting director Sam Stevenson, giving timely advice in response to today’s fast-changing industry landscape, and an article by Paterson Joseph.

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