Suggested Reading
BOOKS
A Life - Kazan - Autobiography
Acting Professionally - Cohen - Non-fiction
Adventures in the Screen Trade - Goldman - Non-fiction
An Actor Prepares - Stanislavski - Non-fiction
Creating a Role - Stanislavski - Non-fiction
My Life in Art - Stanislavski - Autobiography
Audition - Shurtleff - Non-fiction
Caught in the Act - Shewey - Non-fiction
Films Scenes for Actor I & II - Karton - Fiction
Final Cut - Bach - Non-fiction
How to Sell Yourself as an Actor - Callan - Non-fiction
It Would Be So Nice if You Weren't Here - Grodin - Autobiography
Loving Each Other - Buscaglia - Non-fiction
Personhood - Buscaglia - Non-fiction
Respect for Acting - Hagen - Non-fiction
The Power of Myth - Campbell - Non-fiction
Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Pirsig - Fiction
The Intent to Live: Achieving Your True Potential As an Actor - Moss - Non-fiction
The Power of the Actor - Chubbuck - Non-fiction
A Dream of Passion: The Development of the Method - Strasberg & Morphus - Non-fiction
Your Film Acting Career - Lewis - Non-fiction
Acting Is Everything - Kerr - Non-fiction
Acting: A Handbook of the Stanislavsi Method - Cole - Non-fiction
The Poetics of Aristotle - Halliwell - Non-fiction
The Dramatic Imagination - Jones - Non-fiction
The Power of One - Catron - Non-fiction
Creating Your Own Monologue - Alterman - Non-fiction
Alexander Techniques:Constructive Conscious Control - McGowan - Non-fiction
Acting From a Spiritual Perspective - Bild - Non-fiction
Strasberg's Method as Taught by Lorrie Hull: A Practical Guide for Actors, Teachers, Directors -Lorrie Hull - Non-fiction
The Artist's Way - Cameron - Non-fiction
PLAYS
Arsenic and Old Lace - Kesselring - Comedy
Beyond Therapy - Durang - Comedy
Born Yesterday - Kanin - Comedy
Boys Life - Jirder - Comedy
Days of Wine and Roses - Miller - Drama
Division Street - Tesich - Comedy
Dutchman - Jones - Drama
Five by Weller - Weller - Comedy
Hooters - Tally - Comedy
Key Exchange- W ade - Comedy
Life and Limb - Reddin - Comedy
Lovers and Other Strangers - Bologna and Taylor - Comedy
LUV - Shisgal - Comedy
Of Mice and Men - Steinbeck - Drama
On the Waterfront - Schulberg - Drama
P.S. Your Cat is Dead - Kirkwood - Comedy
Rainmaker - Nash - Romance
Subject Was Roses - Gilroy - Drama
The Colored Museum - George Wolfe - Comedy
Transfers - Bromberg - Both
Vanities - Heifner - Comedy
Wait Until Dark - Knott - Suspense
ANYTHING WRITTEN BY:
August Wilson
Neil Simon
Spike Lee
Arthur Miller
Peter Shaffer
Henry Miller
Quentin Tarantino
Tennesee Williams
Nora Ephron
David Mamet
Wendy Wasserstein
Lanford Wilson
Harold Pinter
Woody Allen
William Inge
John Patrick Shanley
Terence McNally
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