
The Actor's Guide to Creating a Character
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Damon DiMarco earned his M.F.A. from the Rutgers University Mason Gross School of the Arts under Bill Esper's tutelage. He acts professionally on stage, screen, and TV, and teaches at Drew University. Damon's other books include, Tower Stories: an Oral History of 9/11; Heart of War: Soldiers' Voices from the Front Lines of Iraq; and My Two Chinas: The Memoir of a Chinese Counterrevolutionary with Baiqiao Tang, which features a foreword by His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction by Patricia Heaton
- Prologue
- Bill's Class for the Second Year
- One: Welcome Back-and Back to Work
- Two: Gimps, Limps, and Lisps: Physical Impediments
- Three: How Being in Intense Pain Can Actually Help Your Work
- Four: How to Explore Drugs and Alcohol without Rehab, Prison, or Death
- Five: Imitation and Point of View
- Six: Come, Sit at the Table!: The Essence of the Character
- Seven: Still at the Table: Actions and Super Objectives
- Eight: Beats, Homework, Inner Emotional Lines, and Particularizations
- Nine: Nursery Rhymes
- Ten: Spoon Rivers
- Eleven: Periods and Styles
- Twelve: Periods and Styles in Practice
- Thirteen: Acting in Film and TV
- Fourteen: Commencement: The Serious Actor Business
- Afterword by David Mamet
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Other Books by This Author
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