The Actor's Audition - by David Black (Paperback)

About the Book

Here is a practical and enlightening guide that picks up where most acting texts end. The author offers insights on how to approach the monologue, the cold reading, the musical audition, and the interview, along with techniques that will help actors impress prospective employers even before they step into character.

Book Synopsis

The practical guide offers insights on how to approach the monologue, the cold reading, the musical audition, and the interview, along with techniques that will help actors impress prospective employers even before they step into character.

Review Quotes

"An invaluable book for the whole theater community."

-- Bernard Jacobs, The Shubert Organization

"This book tells you what a lot of acting schools never get to -- the nuts and bolts of how to audition." -- Deborah Brown, casting director

"This lovely book is about the power of communicating your own truth, and the wonder of recognizing your choices."

-- Liv Ullmann

"An absolute must for actors...I wish it had existed when I started."

-- Jerry Orbach

"The best and most important common sense way to approach an audition. I wish I had it for the many I lost" -- Maureen Stapleton

About the Author

David Black is a violinist, an opera singer, an award-winning salesman, a CIA covert intelligence officer, an actor, a Tony Award-winning producer of 20 shows, a director, a playwright, and the author of The Actor's Audition and The Magic of Theater. Hillary Rodham Clinton called David Black "an honorary diplomat" for introducing Tunisian Collaborative Painting to the United States.