A Life-coaching Approach to Screen Acting

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Hardcover
2018
$138.27

Combining life-coaching and screen-acting techniques in one accessible handbook, this helpful guide empowers actors to overcome personal inhibitions and approach their work, characters and careers with confidence to produce real and believable acting on screen every time. Structured to build absolute confidence and understanding of yourself before you take on a new role and play someone else, this book employs life-coaching techniques to give you the conviction to face a fulfilling but potentially daunting career as an actor. After mentoring you towards self-assurance, Dresner moves on to examine essential elements of a screen actor's craft, such as emotions, imagination, nerves, focus, listening and line-learning. This is a book that not only enables you to shed your inhibitions, but also equips you with the tools and practical thoughts to create powerful, believable characters. Published in partnership with The Actors Centre, A Life-coaching Approach to Screen Acting includes online videos of hands-on coaching sessions between the author and professional actors and is ideal for readers and teachers looking to replicate the method in their own training.

Synopsis

Combining life-coaching and screen-acting techniques in one accessible handbook, this helpful guide empowers actors to overcome personal inhibitions and approach their work, characters and careers with confidence to produce real and believable acting on screen every time. Structured to build absolute confidence and understanding of yourself before you take on a new role and play someone else, this book employs life-coaching techniques to give you the conviction to face a fulfilling but potentially daunting career as an actor. After mentoring you towards self-assurance, Dresner moves on to examine essential elements of a screen actor's craft, such as emotions, imagination, nerves, focus, listening and line-learning. This is a book that not only enables you to shed your inhibitions, but also equips you with the tools and practical thoughts to create powerful, believable characters. Published in partnership with The Actors Centre, A Life-coaching Approach to Screen Acting includes online videos of hands-on coaching sessions between the author and professional actors and is ideal for readers and teachers looking to replicate the method in their own training.

$138.27

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More Information

Format: Hardcover
Pages: 160
Publisher: Methuen Drama
Published: 04 Oct 2018
ISBN 10: 135003942X
ISBN 13: 9781350039421
Book Overview: A Life-coaching Approach to Screen Acting is a handbook that combines effective life-coaching techniques with screen acting tools to enable the actor to approach their characters and their work with self-confidence.

Media Reviews

Know Thyself proclaims the entrance to the Temple of Apollo at Delphi and Be Thyself responds Oscar Wilde, many centuries later. It is with masterful insight that Daniel Dresner connects these simple but profound directives and brilliantly draws his revelatory parallel with well-being and the craft of screen acting. * Philip Wolff - Head of screen acting at the International School of Screen Acting *
This original and timely book introduces the benefits of life-coaching to the stressful and uncertain lives of many actors, especially those who perform on a screen. * Michael Ferguson - television producer, director scriptwriter and teacher *

Author Bio

Daniel Dresner is a leading UK acting coach. He regularly teaches at the Actors Centre and drama schools as well as coaching privately. His clients range from actors starting out to Hollywood stars. His approach has been developed over more than 20 years as an actor, director, teacher and life coach in London, New York and Tokyo. He studied the Method at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute in New York and life coaching with the Coaches Training Institute.