Auditioning: An Actor-Friendly Guide

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.

• Audition
• Acting as a Business, Fifth Edition: Strategies for Success
• The Actor's Art and Craft: William Esper Teaches the Meisner Technique
• Audition: Everything an Actor Needs to Know to Get the Part
• Actions: The Actors' Thesaurus
• Backwards & Forwards: A Technical Manual for Reading Plays
• A Challenge For The Actor
• Acting: Working in the Theatre (Working in the Theatre Seminars)
• An Actor's Companion: Tools for the Working Actor
• Michael Caine - Acting in Film: An Actor's Take on Movie Making (The Applause Acting Series) Revised Expanded Edition