How to act
- Rob Roznowski, Carolyn Conover, & Heidi Kasevich (2020) The introverted actor: practical approaches [i] [d]
- Anthony Weston (2019) Teaching as the art of staging: a scenario-based college pedagogy in action [i]
- Kate Bredeson (2017) Staging the Cascadia earthquake before it happens: Faultline Ensemble's Holding onto the sky as community health and theatre manifesto [d]
- Andreĭ Borisovich Droznin & Natalia Fedorova (2017) Physical actor training: what shall I do with the body they gave me? [i] [d]
- Juliet Hart, Mark Onuscheck, & Mary T. Christel (2017) Acting it out: using drama in the classroom to improve student engagement, reading, and critical thinking [i] [d]
- Robert Knopf (2017) Script analysis for theatre: tools for interpretation, collaboration and production [i] [d]
- Marian McCurdy (2017) Acting and its refusal in theatre and film: the devil makes believe [i]
- Rob Roznowski (2017) Roadblocks in acting [i]
- Alex Clifton (2016) The actor's workbook: a practical guide to training, rehearsing and devising + video [i] [d]
- Bella Merlin (2016) Facing the fear: an actor's guide to overcoming stage fright [i]
- Nick Moseley (2016) Actioning and how to do it [i]
- Christopher Olsen [ed] (2016) Acting comedy [i] [d]
- Sean Bruno & Luke Dixon (2015) Creating solo performance [i] [d]
- Amy J. C. Cuddy (2015) Presence: bringing your boldest self to your biggest challenges [i]
- Camilla Eeg-Tverbakk & Karmenlara Ely [ed] (2015) Responsive listening: theater training for contemporary spaces [i]
- Mark Evans [ed] (2015) The actor training reader [i]
- Niki Flacks (2015) Acting with passion: a performer's guide to emotions on cue [i]
- Ken Rea (2015) The outstanding actor: seven keys to success [i] [d]
- Davis Rider Robinson (2015) A practical guide to ensemble devising [i]
- Floris J. Bex, Katie Atkinson, & Trevor Bench-Capon (2014) Arguments as a new perspective on character motive in stories [d] [u]
- Anne Bogart (2014) What's the story: essays about art, theater and storytelling [i] [d]
- Bill Connington (2014) Physical expression on stage and screen: using the Alexander technique to create unforgettable performances [i]
- John H. Gruzelier (2014) EEG-neurofeedback for optimising performance II: creativity, the performing arts and ecological validity [p] [d]
- Cathy Madden (2014) Integrative Alexander Technique practice for performing artists: onstage synergy [i]
- John Matthews (2014) Anatomy of performance training [i] [d]
- Acacia C. Parks & Stephen M. Schueller (2014) Act well to be well: the promise of changing personality states to promote well-being [i] [d]
- Michal Parzuchowski, Aleksandra Szymkow, Wieslaw Baryla, & Bogdan Wojciszke (2014) From the heart: hand over heart as an embodiment of honesty [d]
- Randi Shedlosky-Shoemaker, Kristi A. Costabile, & Robert M. Arkin (2014) Self-expansion through fictional characters [d]
- Eric P. Skye, Heather Wagenschutz, Jeffrey A. Steiger, & Arno K. Kumagai (2014) Use of interactive theater and role play to develop medical students' skills in breaking bad news [p] [d]
- William Wesbrooks (2014) Dramatic circumstances: on acting, singing, and living inside the stories we tell [i]
- Ruth Zaporah (2014) Improvisation on the edge: notes from on and off the stage [i]
- Tom Cantrell (2013) Acting in documentary theatre [i]
- Neil Cohn & Martin Paczynski (2013) Prediction, events, and the advantage of agents: the processing of semantic roles in visual narrative [p] [d] [u]
- Jon Jory (2013) The complete tips for actors [i]
- Catherine Michna (2013) Performance and cross-racial storytelling in post-Katrina New Orleans: interviews with John O'Neal, Carol Bebelle, and Nicholas Slie [d]
- Rob Roznowski (2013) Inner monologue in acting [i] [d]
- Matthew A. Schnurr, Elizabeth De Santo, & Rachael Craig (2013) Using a blended learning approach to simulate the negotiation of a multilateral environmental agreement [d]
- Rick Kemp (2012) Embodied acting: what neuroscience tells us about performance [i] [d]
- Robert J. Landy & David T. Montgomery (2012) Theatre for change: education, social action and therapy [i]
- Margaret O'Connor, Jo-Anne Abbott, & Katrina Recoche (2012) Getting the message across: does the use of drama aid education in palliative care? [d]
- Steven Pressfield (2012) Finding 'real' [u]
- Zachariah Rush (2012) Beyond the screenplay: a dialectical approach to dramaturgy [i]
- Amy Stephson (2012) Acting 101 for managers [u]
- Paul Ashton (2011) The calling card script: a writer's toolbox for stage, screen and radio [i]
- Amy J. C. Cuddy, Peter Glick, & Anna Beninger (2011) The dynamics of warmth and competence judgments, and their outcomes in organizations [d]
- Jonathon Leigh Howard (2011) Using a virtual national park to teach workplace skills in conservation management [d]
- Karen S. Mitchell & Jennifer L. Freitag (2011) Forum theatre for bystanders: a new model for gender violence prevention [d]
- Keith Oatley (2011) Such stuff as dreams: the psychology of fiction [i] [d]
- Simon Callow (2010) Acting as narrative [i] [d]
- Gretchen A. Case & Daniel J. Brauner (2010) The doctor as performer: a proposal for change based on a performance studies paradigm [p] [d]
- Richard A. Chefetz (2010) Life as performance art: right and left brain function, implicit knowing, and 'felt coherence' [i] [d]
- Jan Cohen-Cruz (2010) Engaging performance: theatre as call and response [i] [d]
- Sarah Corrie, David A. Lane, Prunella Scales, & Timothy West (2010) Understanding character: an actor's approach to formulation [i] [d]
- Jens Eder (2010) Understanding characters [d]
- John Rowan (2010) Personification: using the dialogical self in psychotherapy and counselling [i] [d]
- Henry Bacon (2009) Blendings of real, fictional, and other imaginary people [d]
- Katya Bloom (2009) Embodied attentiveness: recognising the language of movement [d]
- Alison Forsyth & Christopher Megson [ed] (2009) Get real: documentary theatre past and present [i] [d]
- Thalia R. Goldstein & Ellen Winner (2009) Living in alternative and inner worlds: early signs of acting talent [d]
- Thalia R. Goldstein, Katherine Wu, & Ellen Winner (2009) Actors are skilled in theory of mind but not empathy [d]
- Scott Graham & Steven Hoggett (2009/2014) The Frantic Assembly book of devising theatre [i]
- Rosy Martin (2009) Inhabiting the image: photography, therapy and re-enactment phototherapy [d]
- Monica Prendergast & Juliana Saxton [ed] (2009) Applied theatre: international case studies and challenges for practice [i]
- Elizabeth Quinlan & Wendy Duggleby (2009) 'Breaking the fourth wall': activating hope through participatory theatre with family caregivers [d]
- Rob Roznowski & Kirk Domer (2009) Collaboration in theatre: a practical guide for designers and directors [i] [d]
- Walt Stanchfield & Don Hahn (2009) Drawn to life: 20 golden years of Disney master classes [i] [d]
- Phillip B. Zarrilli & Peter Hulton (2009) Psychophysical acting: an intercultural approach after Stanislavski [i]
- AIDS Alliance (2008) Feel! think! act!: a guide to interactive drama for sexual and reproductive health with young people [i] [u]
- Rhonda Blair (2008) The actor, image, and action: acting and cognitive neuroscience [i]
- Arne Carlsen (2008) Positive dramas: enacting self-adventures in organizations [d]
- Emmanuelle Chaulet (2008) A balancing act: the development of Energize!, a holistic approach to acting [i]
- Robert J. Landy (2008) The couch and the stage: integrating words and action in psychotherapy [i]
- Sara K. Moeller, Michael D. Robinson, & Darya L. Zabelina (2008) Personality dominance and preferential use of the vertical dimension of space: evidence from spatial attention paradigms [d]
- Eva Österlind (2008) Acting out of habits—can Theatre of the Oppressed promote change?: Boal's theatre methods in relation to Bourdieu's concept of habitus [d]
- Amy Raphael & Mike Leigh (2008) Mike Leigh on Mike Leigh [i]
- Twilla R. Welch & Mark Welch (2008) Dramatic insights: a report of the effects of a dramatic production on the learning of student nurses during their mental health course component [d]
- Paul Woodruff (2008) The necessity of theater: the art of watching and being watched [i] [d]
- Raquel C. Andres-Hyman, John S. Strauss, & Larry Davidson (2007) Beyond parallel play: science befriending the art of method acting to advance healing relationships [p] [d]
- Susan Batson (2007) Truth: personas, needs, and flaws in the art of building actors and creating characters [i]
- Anne Bogart (2007) And then, you act: making art in an unpredictable world [i]
- K. Anders Ericsson, Michael J. Prietula, & Edward T. Cokely (2007) The making of an expert [p] [u]
- Emma Govan, Helen Nicholson, & Katie Normington (2007) Making a performance: devising histories and contemporary practices [i]
- Darryl Hickman (2007) The unconscious actor: out of control, in full command: the art of performance in acting and in life [i]
- Ruthellen Josselson (2007) Playing Pygmalion: how people create one another [i]
- Michael Lugering (2007) The expressive actor: integrated voice, movement, and acting training [i]
- Fred McVittie (2007) Top-down and bottom-up approaches to actor training [d]
- Yoshi Oida & Lorna Marshall (2007) An actor's tricks [i]
- Rachel A. Smith, Edward Downs, & Kim Witte (2007) Drama theory and entertainment education: exploring the effects of a radio drama on behavioral intentions to limit HIV transmission in Ethiopia [d]
- Alice Spivak & Robert Blumenfeld (2007) How to rehearse when there is no rehearsal: acting and the media [i]
- Rosemarie Tichler & Barry Jay Kaplan (2007) Actors at work [i]
- Tom Bancroft (2006) Creating characters with personality [i]
- Yehuda Baruch (2006) Role-play teaching: acting in the classroom [d]
- Kim Dent-Brown & Michael Wang (2006) The mechanism of storymaking: a grounded theory study of the 6-part story method [d]
- Kees C. P. Epskamp (2006) Theatre for development: an introduction to context, applications, and training [i]
- Basil Hoffman (2006/2008) Acting and how to be good at it [i]
- Leonard M. Horowitz, Kelly R. Wilson, Bulent Turan, Pavel Zolotsev, Michael J. Constantino, & Lynne Henderson (2006) How interpersonal motives clarify the meaning of interpersonal behavior: a revised circumplex model [d]
- David A. Paré, Jeff Bondy, & Charu Malhotra (2006) Performing respect: using enactments in group work with men who have abused [d]
- Maria Stuttaford, Claudette Bryanston, Gillian Lewando Hundt, Myles Connor, Margaret Thorogood, & Stephen Tollman (2006) Use of applied theatre in health research dissemination and data validation: a pilot study from South Africa [d]
- Will Wieder (2006) Science as story: communicating the nature of science through historical perspectives on science [d] [j]
- Anne Bogart & Tina Landau (2005) The viewpoints book: a practical guide to viewpoints and composition [i]
- Ann Lexton, Martin Smith, David Olufemi, & Gaye Poole (2005) Taking a risk and playing it safe: the use of actors in interagency child protection training [d]
- Malcolm Miles [ed] (2005) New practices, new pedagogies: a reader [i]
- Philip H. Mirvis (2005) Large group interventions: change as theater [d]
- Lisa Schirch (2005) Ritual and symbol in peacebuilding [i]
- Joan Schirle (2005) Potholes in the road to devising [d]
- Terry Schreiber & Mary Beth Barber (2005) Acting: advanced techniques for the actor, director, and teacher [i]
- Liebe Wetzel (2005) Why devise? Why now? Why breathe? [d]
- Marina Caldarone & Maggie Lloyd-Williams (2004) Actions: the actors' thesaurus [i]
- Ivana Chubbuck (2004) The power of the actor: the Chubbuck technique [i]
- Elly A. Konijn (2004) The heart of the actor: let it all out or keep a healthy distance? [i] [d]
- John Martin (2004) The intercultural performance handbook [i]
- Mick Napier (2004/2015) Improvise: scene from the inside out [i]
- Alex P. Oberle (2004) Understanding public land management through role-playing [d]
- Barry Pineo (2004) Acting that matters [i]
- Dan Weissmann (2004) Johnny joins the freak-bike gang [u]
- William J. Whelton & Leslie S. Greenberg (2004) From discord to dialogue: internal voices and the reorganization of the self in process-experiential therapy [i]
- Jim Bryant (2003) The six dilemmas of collaboration: inter-organisational relationships as drama [i]
- John Freeman (2003) Tracing the footprints: documenting the process of performance [i]
- Alicia A. Grandey (2003) When 'the show must go on': surface acting and deep acting as determinants of emotional exhaustion and peer-rated service delivery [d] [j]
- Belle Linda Halpern & Kathy Lubar (2003) Leadership presence: dramatic techniques to reach out, motivate, and inspire [i]
- Frank Hauser & Russell Reich (2003) Notes on directing: 130 lessons in leadership from the director's chair [i]
- Robert A. Neimeyer, Laura Ray, Heather Hardison, Karina Raina, Rebecca Kelley-Campbell, & Janet Krantz (2003) Fixed role in a fishbowl: consultation-based fixed role therapy as a pedagogical technique [d]
- R. Keith Sawyer (2003) Improvised dialogues: emergence and creativity in conversation [i]
- Judith Weston (2003) The film director's intuition: script analysis and rehearsal techniques [i]
- Stephen Book (2002) Book on acting: improvisation technique for the professional actor in film, theater & television [i]
- Brandilyn Collins (2002) Getting into character: seven secrets a novelist can learn from actors [i]
- Declan Donnellan (2002/2005) The actor and the target [i]
- Barbara Houseman (2002) Finding your voice: a step-by-step guide for actors [i]
- D. Lawrence Kincaid (2002) Drama, emotion, and cultural convergence [d]
- Nicole Potter, Mary Fleischer, & Barbara Adrian [ed] (2002/2016) Movement for actors [i]
- Mandy Rees & John Staniunas (2002) Between director and actor: strategies for effective performance [i]
- Sande Shurin (2002) Transformational acting: a step beyond [i]
- James Thompson (2002) Motivating offenders to change through participatory theatre [i] [d]
- Timothy D. Wilson (2002) Strangers to ourselves: discovering the adaptive unconscious [i]
- David G. Zinder (2002) Body, voice, imagination: a training for the actor [i]
- Dymphna Callery (2001) Through the body: a practical guide to physical theatre [i]
- Rocco Dal Vera [ed] (2001) The voice in violence: and other contemporary issues in professional voice and speech training [i]
- Eugène Van Erven (2001) Community theatre: global perspectives [i]
- Deb Gottesman & Buzz Mauro (2001) Taking center stage: masterful public speaking using acting skills you never knew you had [i]
- Sheila Kerrigan (2001) The performer's guide to the collaborative process [i]
- Lorna Marshall (2001/2002) The body speaks: performance and expression [i]
- Joanna Merlin (2001) Auditioning: an actor-friendly guide [i]
- Keith Oatley (2001) Shakespeare's invention of theater as simulation that runs on minds [d]
- Viola Spolin, Paul Sills, & Carol Sills (2001) Theater games for the lone actor [i]
- Raymond Carney & Leonard Quart (2000) The films of Mike Leigh: embracing the world [i]
- Keith R. Cruise & Kenneth W. Sewell (2000) Promoting self-awareness and role elaboration: using repertory grids to facilitate theatrical character development [d]
- Thomas De Mallet Burgess & Nicholas Skilbeck (2000) The singing and acting handbook: games and exercises for the performer [i]
- Linda Gates (2000/2009) Voice for performance [i]
- David Krasner [ed] (2000) Method acting reconsidered: theory, practice, future [i]
- William H. Sun (2000) Power and problems of performance across ethnic lines: an alternative approach to nontraditional casting [d]
- Stephen Wangh (2000) An acrobat of the heart: a physical approach to acting inspired by the work of Jerzy Grotowski [i]
- Ian Bruce Watson [ed] (2000/2001) Performer training: developments across cultures [i]
- Robert L. Benedetti (1999/2015) The actor in you: twelve simple steps to understanding the art of acting [i]
- Kim Dent-Brown (1999) The six part story method (6PSM): as an aid in the assessment of personality disorder [d]
- Linda Edelstein (1999/2006) Writer's guide to character traits: includes profiles of human behaviors and personality types [i]
- Charles Marowitz (1999) The other way: an alternative approach to acting and directing [i]
- Gordon Phillips (1999) Take it personally: on the art and the process of personal acting [i]
- B. Joseph Pine & James H. Gilmore (1999) The experience economy: work is theatre & every business a stage [i]
- Katya Bloom & Rosamund Shreeves (1998) Moves: a sourcebook of ideas for body awareness and creative movement [i]
- John Coopey (1998) Learning to trust and trusting to learn: a role for radical theatre [d]
- Chris Johnston (1998/2005) House of games: making theatre from everyday life [i]
- Theresa Mitchell (1998) Movement: from person to actor to character [i]
- James Anderson Winn (1998) The pale of words: reflections on the humanities and performance [i]
- Kristina M. DeNeve & Mary J. Heppner (1997) Role play simulations: the assessment of an active learning technique and comparisons with traditional lectures [d]
- Korrie de Koning (1997) Drama as a discussion starter in research and education [u]
- Jacques Lecoq, Jean-Gabriel Carasso, & Jean-Claude Lallias (1997/2001) The moving body: teaching creative theatre [i]
- Rose Mbowa (1997) Rehearsing for reality: using role-play to transform attitudes and behaviour [u]
- Tony Noice & Helga Noice (1997) The nature of expertise in professional acting: a cognitive view [i]
- Augusto Boal (1996) O arco-íris do desejo: método Boal de teatro e terapia [i]
- Thomas N. Gilmore & Ellen Schall (1996) Staying alive to learning: integrating enactments with case teaching to develop leaders [d]
- Chuck Jones (1996/2005) Make your voice heard: an actor's guide to increased dramatic range through vocal training [i]
- Judith Weston (1996) Directing actors: creating memorable performances for film and television [i]
- Augusto Boal (1995) The rainbow of desire: the Boal method of theatre and therapy [i]
- Pamela Brooke (1995) Communicating through story characters: radio social drama [i]
- Doug Lipman (1995) The storytelling coach: how to listen, praise, and bring out people's best [i]
- Yoshi Oida & Lorna Marshall (1995/1997) The invisible actor [i]
- Ruth Zaporah (1995) Action theater: the improvisation of presence [i]
- Phillip B. Zarrilli [ed] (1995) Acting (re)considered: theories and practices [i]
- Alison Oddey (1994) Devising theatre: a practical and theoretical handbook [i]
- Charles E. Schaefer & Lois J. Carey [ed] (1994) Family play therapy [i]
- Mady Schutzman & Jan Cohen-Cruz [ed] (1994) Playing Boal: theatre, therapy, activism [i]
- Robert T. Tauber & Cathy Sargent Mester (1994/2007) Acting lessons for teachers: using performance skills in the classroom [i]
- Daniel J. Wiener (1994) Rehearsals for growth: theater improvisation for psychotherapists [i]
- Jeff Wirth (1994) Interactive acting: acting, improvisation, and interacting for audience participatory theatre [i]
- Robert J. Landy (1993) Persona and performance: the meaning of role in drama, therapy, and everyday life [i]
- Zakes Mda (1993) When people play people: development communication through theatre [i]
- Jo Salas (1993) Improvising real life: personal story in playback theatre [i]
- Claudia N. Sullivan (1993) The actor alone: exercises for work in progress [i]
- Rosary O'Neill (1992/2007) The actor's checklist: creating the complete character [i]
- Mary Stark (1992) The professional ACT: acting communication technique [i]
- H. Wesley Balk (1991) The radiant performer: the spiral path to performing power [i]
- Mark Stolzenberg (1991) Be a mime! [i]
- Natalie Crohn Schmitt (1990) Actors and onlookers: theater and twentieth-century scientific views of nature [i]
- Moni Yakim & Muriel Broadman (1990) Creating a character: a physical approach to acting [i]
- Ron Cameron (1989/1999) Acting skills for life [i]
- Michael Rabiger & Mick Hurbis-Cherrier (1989/2020) Directing: film techniques and aesthetics [i] [d]
- Lynda Belt & Rebecca Stockley (1988/1995) Improvisation through theatre sports: a curriculum to improve acting skills [i]
- Bryan K. Crow (1988) Conversational performance and the performance of conversation [d] [j]
- Brian Adams (1987) Screen acting: how to succeed in motion pictures and television [i]
- Steve Allen & Jane Wollman (1987/1998) How to be funny: discovering the comic you [i]
- Gillian Porter Ladousse (1987) Role play [i]
- Jacques Lecoq (1987/2006) The theatre of movement and gesture [i]
- Antony Sher (1985) Year of the king: an actor's diary and sketchbook [i]
- Paul Clements (1983) The improvised play: the work of Mike Leigh [i]
- Morry van Ments (1983/1989) The effective use of role-play: a handbook for teachers and trainers [i]
- Bruce W. Wilshire (1982) Role playing and identity: the limits of theatre as metaphor [i]
- Milton E. Polsky (1980/1998) Let's improvise: becoming creative, expressive & spontaneous through drama [i]
- Eric Morris & Joan Hotchkis (1979) No acting, please: a revolutionary approach to acting and living [i]
- Thomas J. Scheff (1979) Catharsis in healing, ritual, and drama [i]
- Gilles Deleuze (1978/1993) One less manifesto [i]
- Augusto Boal (1977) 200 exercícios e jogos para o ator e o não-ator com vontade de dizer algo através do teatro [o]
- Augusto Boal (1977/2002) Games for actors and non-actors [i]
- Kristin Linklater (1976/2006) Freeing the natural voice: imagery and art in the practice of voice and language [i]
- Litz Pisk (1975) The actor and his body [i]
- Augusto Boal (1974/1975) Teatro do oprimido e outras poéticas políticas [o]
- Augusto Boal (1974/1979) Theater of the oppressed [i]
- Adam Blatner (1973/1996) Acting-in: practical applications of psychodramatic methods [i]
- Frances Amelia Yates (1966/1999) The art of memory [i]
- Edith Skinner, Timothy Monich, & Lilene Mansell (1965/1990) Speak with distinction [i]
- Viola Spolin (1963/1999) Improvisation for the theater: a handbook of teaching and directing techniques [i]
- George Kelly (1955/1991) Fixed-role therapy [i] [d]
- Athene Seyler, Stephen Haggard, & Robert Barton (1943/2013) The craft of comedy: the 21st century edition [i]
- Baker Brownell (1939) Art is action: a discussion of nine arts in a modern world [o]