This is a list of books that may be of particular interest to Actors. This list is provided for informational purposes only.

You can buy some of these books by following the hotlinks. These books are sold in association with Book Stacks, Unlimited.

Book Categories

• Just Starting Out
• Acting
• Auditioning
• Dialects
• The Acting Business
• Other

Just Starting Out

These are excellent books that many actors consider bookshelf requirements:

• Meisner on Acting by Sanford Meisner
• Audition by Michael Shurtleff, 1984. (Also, see Ed Hooks' book, below.)
• The Ultimate Scene and Monologue Sourcebook by Ed Hooks, 1994.
• Also consider some of the the books below by Stanislavsk, Linklater and Boleslavski.

Acting

• Improv!: A Handbook for the Actor by Greg Atkins (1993)
• Acting: The First Six Lessons by Richard Boleslavski
• Acting in Film by Michael Caine (1997)
• Creating Character Voices For Fun And Profit by Patrick Fraley (1993)
• The Art of Coarse Acting (How not to act.) by Michael Frederick Green (1988)
• Kristin Linklater
  • Freeing the Natural Voice
  • Freeing Shakespeare's Voice
• Meisner on Acting by Sanford Meisner
• Konstantin Stanislavsky
  • An Actor Prepares
  • Building a Character
  • Creating a Role
  • My Life in Art
• Viola Spolin
  • Improvisation For The Theatre; A Handbook Of Teaching And Directing Techniques (1983)
  • Theater Games for the Classroom: A Teacher's Handbook (1986)
• Word of Mouth: A Guide to Commercial Voice-Over Excellence by Susan Blu and Molly Ann Mullin (1992)
• Theatre Games for Young Performers by Maria C. Novelly (1985)
• Jeremy Whelan
  • Instant Acting (1994).
  • New School Acting: Taking It to the Next Level (1996)
  • The ABC's of Acting

Auditioning

• Audition by Michael Shurtleff, 1984.
• The Audition Book by Ed Hooks, 1996.
• How to Audition for the Musical Theatre by Donald Oliver, 1995.
• The Ultimate Scene and Monologue Sourcebook by Ed Hooks, 1994.

Dialects

• David Alan Stern, Ph.D.
  • Acting With an Accent; Series

  • American Southern	Australian	Arabic	Cockney
    French	German	Irish	New York City
    Norwegian and Swedish	Russian	Spanish	Standard British
    Yiddish

  • The First Steps to Losing Your Foreign Accent, 1989.
• Lewis Herman and Marguerite Shalette Herman
  • American Dialects: A Manual for Actors, Directors and  Writers, 1997.
  • Foreign Dialects: A Manual for Actors, Directors and  Writers, 1997.

The Acting Business

• The Actor's Picture-Resume Book by Jill Charles with Photographer Tom Bloom, 1991.
• Organizing for the Creative Person by Dorothy Lehmkuhl and Dolores Cotter Lamping, 1994.
• Smart Actors, Foolish Choices; A Self-Help Guide To Coping... by Katherine Mayfield, 1994.

Other

• Directory of Theatre Training Programs edited by Jill Charles et al..
• The Greatest Salesman in the World by Og Mandino (1996). (Also on cassette)
• Greatest Salesman in the World Part II : The End of the Story by Og Mandino (1996). (Also on cassette)
• Something Wonderful Right Away; An Oral History Of The Second City And The Compass Players (1987) by Jeffrey Sweet

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