The Actor's Art and Craft: William Esper Teaches the Meisner Technique

William Esper, one of the leading acting teachers of our time, explains and extends Sanford Meisner's legendary technique, offering a clear, concrete, step-by-step approach to becoming a truly creative actor.Esper worked closely with Meisner for seventeen years and has spent decades developing his famous program for actor's training. The result is a rigorous system of exercises that builds a solid foundation of acting skills from the ground up, and that is flexible enough to be applied to any challenge an actor faces, from soap operas to Shakespeare. Co-writer Damon DiMarco, a former student of Esper's, spent over a year observing his mentor teaching first-year acting students. In this book he recreates that experience for us, allowing us to see how the progression of exercises works in practice. The Actor's Art and Craft vividly demonstrates that good training does not constrain actors' instincts—it frees them to create characters with truthful and compelling inner lives.

• The Actor's Guide to Creating a Character: William Esper Teaches the Meisner Technique
• Sanford Meisner on Acting
• The Art of Acting
• A Challenge For The Actor
• The Sanford Meisner Approach: An Actor's Workbook (A Career Development Book)
• Truth in Comedy: The Manual for Improvisation
• Respect for Acting
• Freeing the Natural Voice: Imagery and Art in the Practice of Voice and Language
• Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre
• The Intent to Live: Achieving Your True Potential as an Actor