Auditioning: An Actor-Friendly Guide

Title: Auditioning: An Actor-Friendly Guide
Author: Joanna Merlin
ISBN: 9780375725371
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2001
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: 1st Vintage Books ed
Number of Pages: 240
Section: Performing Arts | Acting & Auditioning
Publisher Description: Theater veteran and acting teacher Joanna Merlin has written the definitive guide to auditioning for stage and screen, bringing to it a valuable dual perspective. She has spent her career on both sides of the auditioning process, both as an award-winning casting director who has worked with Harold Prince, Bernard Bertolucci, and James Ivory, and as an accomplished actor herself.

In this highly informative and accessible book, Merlin provides everything the actor needs to achieve self-confidence and artistic honesty-from the most basic practical tips to an in-depth framework for preparing a part. Filled with advice from the most esteemed people in the business, such as James Lapine, Nora Ephron, and Stephen Sondheim, and charged with tremendous wisdom and compassion, this indispensable resource will arm the reader to face an actor's greatest challenge: getting the part.