Secret Magic Stuff for Actors

Every film or stage actor at some point confronts a problem to be solved. Stephen Book's Secret Magic Stuff for Actors is an extraordinary reference book of unique and powerful solutions. If you need to respond to a director's note, or any of forty-four different problems, you can consult Book's table of contents and easily find appropriate tips.

The book includes ''Special Stuff" -- seven remarkably useful tools unfamiliar to most actors. They will enable you to instantly create the emotions of your choice, think spontaneously as the character instead of for the character, and discover the character's physicality, personality, and essence. Secret Magic Stuff for Actors will open a worid of possibilities. Stephen Book is an internationally renowned acting teacher whose students have included Academy Award winners William Hurt, Rita Moreno, and Robin Williams, as well as Val Kilmer, Maura Tierney, Sanaa Lathan, Carla Gugino, Tim Matheson, David Boreanaz, Malcolm Jamal-Warner, and George Carlin. He has been teaching and coaching at his Hollywood workshop for 39 years and is also a former long-time faculty member of The Juilliard School and USC.

Book has directed productions Off Broadway and in regional theaters. He is the author of Book on Acting: Improvisation Technique for the Professional Actor in Film, Theater and Television, and The Actor Takes a Meeting.