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Actor in You, The: Sixteen Simple Steps to Understanding the Art of Acting
An introduction to the fundamentals of acting for beginning students. The 16 steps are arranged in three parts--examples from everyday life to explain the basic principles of acting, exercises to prepare for creative group work, and a step-by-step approach to creating a role. Annotation c. by Book N
- GenresTheatrePlaysNonfiction
149 pages, Paperback
First published August 26, 1998
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Robert Benedetti
20 books3 followersA distinguished teacher of theatre, and three-time Emmy and Peabody Award-winning film producer, Robert Benedetti received his PhD from Northwestern University. After serving as Artistic Director of the Court Theatre in Chicago, he was an early member of Chicago’s Second City Theatre, and then taught for fifty years at the University of Wisconsin, Carnegie-Mellon University, The National Theatre School of Canada, and the University of California, Riverside.
He was Chairman of Theatre at York University in Toronto, Chairman of the Acting Program at the Yale Drama School, and for eight years Dean of Theatre at The California Institute of the Arts. He was until 2011 a tenured Full Professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and Artistic Director of the Nevada Conservatory Theatre.
Benedetti has directed at many regional theatres, including the Tyrone Guthrie Theatre, Australia’s Melbourne Theatre Company, the Milwaukee, South Coast, and San Diego Repertory Theatres, the Oregon, Colorado, and Great Lakes Shakespeare festivals, and many others.
He has also worked in the art museum field, recreating the 1913 Futurist Opera Victory Over the Sun by Kazimir Malevich for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and has also created shows on German Expressionism and Russian Agitprop. His productions have appeared at the Berlin Festival, the Demeervart in Amsterdam, the Hirschhorn Museum at the Smithsonian, and the Brooklyn Academy. His films are in the permanent collection of MoMA and many other museums and university art departments.
He served as an advisor to the U. S. Department of Education and as a Fulbright Panelist.
As President of Ted Danson’s Anasazi Productions at Paramount Studios, and later as an independent screenwriter/producer, he won three Best Picture Emmys, two Humanitas Prizes, and a Peabody Award for producing Miss Evers’ Boys and A Lesson Before Dying for HBO, and six other films. He most recently completed a screenplay for HBO on the 1885 Chicago Haymarket bombing.
Benedetti has also written six books on acting and film production, including The Actor At Work 10th edition, The Actor in You, 5th edition (recently translated into Danish), ACTION! Acting for Film and Television, and From Concept to Screen, an Overview of Film and TV production (recently published in Chinese.)
In 2005 he received the Lifetime Career Achievement Award from the Association for Theatre in Higher Education. In 2012 he was inducted into the College of Fellows of the American Theatre at the Kennedy Center. He and his wife collect Folk and Fine Art.
He was Chairman of Theatre at York University in Toronto, Chairman of the Acting Program at the Yale Drama School, and for eight years Dean of Theatre at The California Institute of the Arts. He was until 2011 a tenured Full Professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and Artistic Director of the Nevada Conservatory Theatre.
Benedetti has directed at many regional theatres, including the Tyrone Guthrie Theatre, Australia’s Melbourne Theatre Company, the Milwaukee, South Coast, and San Diego Repertory Theatres, the Oregon, Colorado, and Great Lakes Shakespeare festivals, and many others.
He has also worked in the art museum field, recreating the 1913 Futurist Opera Victory Over the Sun by Kazimir Malevich for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and has also created shows on German Expressionism and Russian Agitprop. His productions have appeared at the Berlin Festival, the Demeervart in Amsterdam, the Hirschhorn Museum at the Smithsonian, and the Brooklyn Academy. His films are in the permanent collection of MoMA and many other museums and university art departments.
He served as an advisor to the U. S. Department of Education and as a Fulbright Panelist.
As President of Ted Danson’s Anasazi Productions at Paramount Studios, and later as an independent screenwriter/producer, he won three Best Picture Emmys, two Humanitas Prizes, and a Peabody Award for producing Miss Evers’ Boys and A Lesson Before Dying for HBO, and six other films. He most recently completed a screenplay for HBO on the 1885 Chicago Haymarket bombing.
Benedetti has also written six books on acting and film production, including The Actor At Work 10th edition, The Actor in You, 5th edition (recently translated into Danish), ACTION! Acting for Film and Television, and From Concept to Screen, an Overview of Film and TV production (recently published in Chinese.)
In 2005 he received the Lifetime Career Achievement Award from the Association for Theatre in Higher Education. In 2012 he was inducted into the College of Fellows of the American Theatre at the Kennedy Center. He and his wife collect Folk and Fine Art.
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October 12, 2018
Maybe closer to four stars, but I didn't love it immensely. It does well with stating things simply and concisely. It's designed for classroom use, not personal study, so it was hard to just read through and not do the exercises, some of which were weird. Lol
I just, I hate philosophies on acting that talk about acting without Christ. We're not doing this simply for ourselves or for the audience or to impart strong ideas. I just want an book that will talk about acting from a Christian perspective. Why to act, how to do it in a way that honors Him.
But I digress. This was a good book, overall. It summed up a lot of ideas very well. The main ideas I took away were 1) acting should be an experience, not a performance, and 2) acting is based on /actions/ not feelings, and that means we don't play an emotion, we pursue an action. It had some good exercises and methods for analyzing that I'll probably go back over. Analyzing is something I'd like to get better at, and I need to practice.
I just, I hate philosophies on acting that talk about acting without Christ. We're not doing this simply for ourselves or for the audience or to impart strong ideas. I just want an book that will talk about acting from a Christian perspective. Why to act, how to do it in a way that honors Him.
But I digress. This was a good book, overall. It summed up a lot of ideas very well. The main ideas I took away were 1) acting should be an experience, not a performance, and 2) acting is based on /actions/ not feelings, and that means we don't play an emotion, we pursue an action. It had some good exercises and methods for analyzing that I'll probably go back over. Analyzing is something I'd like to get better at, and I need to practice.
September 2, 2024
Textbook illustrating the steps needed to do the work of an actor. Relevant to both the professional as well as amateur actor.
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