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Critique of Scene Study Acting Classes, Part 2 stephenbook 262 views Stephen Book heads an acting workshop in Hollywood. He is the author of BOOK ON ACTING Improvisation Technique for the Professional Actor in Film, Theater & Television; and...
Improvisation Choices for Scripted Auditions, Part 1 stephenbook 269 views Stephen Book heads an acting workshop in Hollywood. He is the author of BOOK ON ACTING Improvisation Technique for the Professional Actor in Film, Theater & Television; and...
Improvisation Choices for Scripted Auditions, Part 2 stephenbook 208 views Stephen Book heads an acting workshop in Hollywood. He is the author of BOOK ON ACTING Improvisation Technique for the Professional Actor in Film, Theater & Television; and...
Critique of Scene Study Acting Classes, Part 1 stephenbook 287 views Stephen Book heads an acting workshop in Hollywood. He is the author of BOOK ON ACTING Improvisation Technique for the Professional Actor in Film, Theater & Television; and...
Improvising the Acting Scales stephenbook 726 views Stephen Book heads an acting workshop in Hollywood. He is the author of BOOK ON ACTING Improvisation Technique for the Professional Actor in Film, Theater & Television; and...
Improv Theater vs. Improvisational Acting stephenbook 1,626 views Stephen Book heads an acting workshop in Hollywood. He is the author of BOOK ON ACTING Improvisation Technique for the Professional Actor in Film, Theater & Television; and...
Improvising Better Choices in a Scripted Scene stephenbook 297 views Stephen Book heads an acting workshop in Hollywood. He is the author of BOOK ON ACTING Improvisation Technique for the Professional Actor in Film, Theater & Television; and...
Improvisation and Spontaneity stephenbook 710 views Stephen Book heads an acting workshop in Hollywood. He is the author of BOOK ON ACTING Improvisation Technique for the Professional Actor in Film, Theater & Television; and...
Improvisation Approach to Scripted Acting stephenbook 1,049 views Stephen Book heads an acting workshop in Hollywood. He is the author of BOOK ON ACTING Improvisation Technique for the Professional Actor in Film, Theater & Television; and...
Actor's Meetings & Interviews, # 3: Insecure Behavior stephenbook 216 views Stephen Book heads an acting workshop in Hollywood. He is the author of BOOK ON ACTING Improvisation Technique for the Professional Actor in Film, Theater & Television; and...

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International author, teacher, director, creative consultant, and heads a professional acting workshop in Hollywood since 1985. His students and clients have won Oscars, Emmys, Tonys, Obies, and Grammies. He is a former long-time faculty member of The Juilliard School and the University of Southern California. He co-designed with Viola Spolin, the Spolin Theater Game Center, and served as its executive director and principal teacher. He has also taught at Stanford, Brown, UCLA, the Bread Loaf School of English at Middlebury College, Globe Shakespeare Center in London, Gittes (the state theater school of Russia) in Moscow, and the Esalen Institute. In his positions at the Spolin Theater Game Center, the Bread Loaf School of English, and as Staff Associate to Cemrel (a National Education Laboratory), his specialty was training theater teachers.

A theater director, his productions have been seen Off and Off Off Broadway and in Regional and university theaters, including: Circle in the Square, Los Angeles Actors Theater, Washington Theater Club, Stanford Repertory Theater, Equity Library Theater, New Dramatists, Festival Theatre of Texas, Princeton, Brown, Sarah Lawrence College, U.S.C., and the Theater of Dionysus in Athens.

He is the Creative Consultant on the pilot for a new Comedy Central series, Special Unit, starring Christopher Titus. He was Creative Consultant to the director, Vincent Ward, on the Oscar winning film, What Dreams May Come. He was Creative Consultant to Melissa Manchester on her Grammy nominated album, Don't Cry Out Loud.

He is the author of BOOK ON ACTING Improvisation Technique for the Professional Actor in Film, Theater & Television. In 2006, Silman-James Press also published his THE ACTOR TAKES A MEETING How to Interview Successfully with Agents, Managers, Producers, and Casting Directors. In 2007, BOOK ON ACTING was translated and published in Poland as HANDBOOK FOR ACTORS. Samuel French Play Publishers and Bookstores lists Stephen Book as one of seven original sources of modern acting technique, along with Boleslavsky, Stanislavsky, Michael Chekov, Uta Hagen, Viola Spolin, and Sanford Meisner.

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