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The Actor's Way: A Journey of Self-Discovery in Letters
Author(s): Benjamin Lloyd (Author)
- Publisher: Allworth Press
- Publication Date: 1 May 2006
- Language: English
- Print length: 224 pages
- ISBN-10: 158115447X
- ISBN-13: 9781581154474
Book Description
This is required reading for anyone passionate about the theater, acting, and the teaching of it. The struggles of a young actor, the actor/director relationship, the challenges of teaching art in universities, ageism, and techniques for teaching realistic acting are all communicated through a fictional series of letters between Andy, an anguished young New York City actor and Alice, his Quaker grade-school acting teacher.
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About the Author
Benjamin Lloyd is an experienced theatre artist, writer and teacher who has performed in many major venues in New York City and Philadelphia including Theater for New Audience, The Public Theatre, SoHo Rep, Home for Contemporary Art, The Walnut Street Theatre and People’s Light and Theatre. While in New York, he started his own class for actors interested in Shakespeare called Shakespeare: No Attitude, acting in his own play Extras and directing and playing Hamlet
