Book on Acting: Improvisation Techniques for the Professional Actor in Film, Theater & Television

Characterizing improvisation technique as a specific body of work for creating skilled improvisational acting with its own rules, procedures, and applications, professional acting coach Book explains how his approach to acting instruction "puts the doing in the body" as opposed to the head. He presents exercises for learning the technique and discusses how to apply his technique to scripted projects. Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Stephen Book is a top Hollywood acting coach and teacher and a theatre director. His students have won Oscars, Emmys, Tonys, Obies, and Grammys. Thirteen of his present or former students are featured in either starring roles or as cast regulars in the current primetime television schedule. This book contains film and television scenes in which Book-coached actors, used his Improvisation Technique to create their performances. These scenes, showing the actors' performance choices, demonstrate the use of Improvisation Technique in different genres of acting. Well-known theatre and film scenes are included, as well as scenes from such TV shows as 'Frasier', 'Melrose Place', 'Star Trek: Voyager', 'LA Law' and 'The Practice'.