✨ Featured Offer
Brand New
$19.19
List Price: $19.99
🚚
See all 5 offers from $17.01 FREE standard delivery by: 28 Mar 2026
Overview
The Actor Uncovered is certainly not a set of rigid rules advocating one "method" or one singular "truth." Departing from the common guidebook format, Michael Howard uses a unique approach to teaching acting, reflecting on his own history and sharing his own experiences as an actor, director, and teacher. How he writes about the process and craft of acting is at once intensely personal and relatable by others.
Readers are invited to participate as though present in this master teacher's classes. Each human being, and thus each actor, is unique. Howard encourages actors to uncover their own ways of working, using their particular abilities and personality traits. Going beyond the craft and into human psychology and the importance of acting as a life force, readers will see new and deeper ways to study and practice, to be introspective, and to arrive at places of revelation about their craft.The Actor Uncovered will have much to say to beginners, to those who are advanced, and to professional and working actors. Howard discusses such topics as:
After more than seventy years as a professional actor, director, and teacher, Howard shows how living creatively and invoking one's own personality can lead to a successful career as an actor.
Readers are invited to participate as though present in this master teacher's classes. Each human being, and thus each actor, is unique. Howard encourages actors to uncover their own ways of working, using their particular abilities and personality traits. Going beyond the craft and into human psychology and the importance of acting as a life force, readers will see new and deeper ways to study and practice, to be introspective, and to arrive at places of revelation about their craft.The Actor Uncovered will have much to say to beginners, to those who are advanced, and to professional and working actors. Howard discusses such topics as:
- Techniques, styles, and methods in a changing society
- Relaxation, concentration, and the breath
- The relationships among actor, director, and writer
- Memory
- On camera versus on stage
- Obstacles
After more than seventy years as a professional actor, director, and teacher, Howard shows how living creatively and invoking one's own personality can lead to a successful career as an actor.
| ISBN-13 | 9781621536369 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10 | 162153636X |
| Weight | 0.70 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 6.00 x 0.90 x 9.00 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | - |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Pages | 240 pages |
| Publisher | Allworth |
| Published On | 2018-03-06 |
View All Offers
Sort by:
Price
Condition
Seller
Seller Comments
Price
Used, Good
Seller details
8trax Media
Mansfield, MA, USA
Readable book with typical wear and small creases. Part of cover is torn. Has a remainder mark. Pa...
Free delivery by: 28 Mar 2026
Used, Good
Seller details
GreatBookPrices-
Columbia, MD, USA
Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 240 p. May show signs of wear, highlighting, writing, and pre...
Free delivery by: 28 Mar 2026
Used, Good
Seller details
SurplusTextSeller
Columbia, MO, USA
Ships in a BOX from Central Missouri! May not include working access code. Will not include dust j...
Free delivery by: 28 Mar 2026
✨ Brand New
Seller details
indoo.com
Avenel, NJ, USA
9781621536369.
Free delivery by: 28 Mar 2026
Used, Good
Seller details
Bonita
Santa Clarita, CA, USA
Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.
Free delivery by: 28 Mar 2026