Someone has offered you a chance to make your dreams come true. And they are telling you that with a lot of hard work and dedication and persistence, you can be the actor you have always dreamed of being. And they're not just promising you the moon and the stars, or some swampland in the middle of Florida. They are being up front and direct and letting you know that you have a hard road ahead of you to travel to get to where you want to be. And they are assuring you that YOU can do it and tha...

Once a month, NOARC holds The Actors' Co-Op meeting, where novice and veteran actors come together to help each other develop their skills, hone their craft and receive career support.

Meetings are held at The Backyard Ballroom performance space at 3519 St. Claude in the Bywater. If you have a monologue prepared, we would love to see it, and if this is your first step into acting, we will be happy to find material that meets your skill level.

For more information about The Actors' Co-Op, please...

FREE SCREENPLAYS

Drew's Script-O-Rama - http://script-o-rama.com/

Simply Scripts - http://www.simplyscripts.com/

The Script Source - http://www.thescriptsource.net/Scripts.html

The Daily Script - http://www.dailyscript.com/movie.html - also had the IMDB link attached to most scripts

Internet Movie Script Database - http://www.imsdb.com/ - Catagorizes script alphabetically, but also by genre

Screenplay 451 - http://www.pumpkinsoft.de/screenplay451/ - Has scripts available for download in a zipped fo...

Taken from the Aaron Speiser Acting Workshop

1. Misdirection or Mislead - Make the audience think you are leading them one way then go the other way (flip it).

2. Fast changes: A. Physical B. Emotional C. Vocal

3. The Unexpected - Surprises

4. Great Truth

5. Physical Comedy - Clowning, Pratfalls, Food, Mugging, Pain or Pleasure, anything to do with the body (itching, diarrhea, orgasm, blindness, deafness, stuttering, smells. etc.)

6. Comic Build

7. Running Gags

8. Reacting (can be funnier than anythi...