Reading List for actors who want to know…

This is a short list of books that have had an impact on my development as an actor. Being a graduate of The Experimental Theater Wing at N.Y.U., I lived for the avant-garde. I was a member of White Noise Theatre. I miss those days.

Reading List for the Theatrically Inquisitive:

“The Viewpoints Book: A Practical Guide to Viewpoints and Composition”
Anne Bogart & Tina Landau

“A Director Prepares: Seven Essays on Art and Theatre”
Anne Bogart

“And Then, You Act: Making Art in an Unpredictable World”
Anne Bogart

“Anne Bogart: Viewpoints (Career Development Series)”
Michael Bigelow Dixon and Joel A. Smith

“Towards a Poor Theatre”
Jerzy Grotowski

“An Acrobat of the Heart”
Stephen Wangh

“The Way of Acting: The Theatre Writings of Tadashi Suzuki”
Tadashi Suzuki and J. Thomas Rimer

“Environmental Theater”
Richard Schechner

“The Empty Space”
Peter Brook

“The Theater and its Double”
Antonin Artaud

“The Presence of the Actor”
Joseph Chaikin

“Awareness Through Movement”
Moshe Feldenkrais

“The New Radical Theatre Notebook” (revised edition)
Arthur Sainer

“No Acting Please”
Eric Morris & Joan Hotchkis

“Experimental Theatre: From Stanislavsky to Peter Brook”
James Roose-Evans

“A Practical Handbook for the Actor”
Melissa Bruder, Lee Michael Cohn, Madeleine Olnek,
Nathaniel Pollack, Robert Previto, Scott Zigler

“True and False”
David Mamet

“Writing In Restaurants”
David Mamet

“Respect for Acting”
Uta Hagen

“On the Technique of Acting”
Michael Chekhov

“Actors on Acting”
Editors: Toby Cole & Helen Krich Chinoy

This is a partial list. Feel free to suggest others.

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