Loving to Audition: The Audition Workbook for Actors (Career Development Series) [Paperback]

Larry Silverberg (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1575250071 | ISBN-13: 978-1575250076 | Publication Date: November 1996 | Edition: 1st

Larry Silverberg, professional actor, director, and author of the best-selling The Sanford Meisner Approach Volume I and Volume II has done it again. He offers specific instructions which will lead to performances at auditions that are powerfully authentic, urgent, and unique. The actor will approach the audition event as a true moment of artistic creation; the experience will shift from one of anxiety and distress to one of satisfaction, fulfillment and joy!

If you are a student preparing for auditions or a seasoned professional, the lessons offered in Loving to Audition will empower you towards excellence in audition performances

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

Acting coach Larry Silverberg takes two monologues--one for a man, one for a woman--from John Patrick Shanley's Savage in Limbo, and proceeds for 147 pages to dissect every word, every possible layer of meaning, every possible angle of approach, to show how a master actor would interpret the speeches at an audition. Silverberg supplies so many techniques for climbing inside the brief texts that any actor with the presence of mind to recall a tenth of them in the heat of a real-life audition would have the basis for ample calm confidence. This is a really useful guide for absorbing text quickly--whether for performer or audience.

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A valuable, adventurous, and enthusiastic entree into the little defined world of auditioning. -- Allan Miller, actor, director, teacher, and author

Silverberg offers specific instructions which will lead to performances at auditions that are powerfully authentic, urgent, and unique. -- Internet Bookwatch, January 1998

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Product Details

• Paperback: 147 pages
• Publisher: Smith & Kraus Pub Inc; 1st edition (November 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1575250071
• ISBN-13: 978-1575250076
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.3 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #686,951 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Visit Larry at:

http://www.trueactinginstitute.com

Larry Silverberg is one of the world's foremost authorities on the Sanford Meisner technique of acting through his internationally acclaimed four volume series, "The Sanford Meisner Approach: An Actors Workbook," and his book, "Loving To Audition." Larry's first book for teen actors, "The 7 Simple Truths of Acting for the Teen Actor" was released last year.

Larry's newest book is now available! It is called "Meisner For Teens: A Life of True Acting" and is published by Smith and Kraus Publishers.

Larry is a graduate of the Neighborhood Playhouse School of Theatre where he studied with legendary acting teacher, Sanford Meisner. Since then, Larry has worked professionally as an actor and director across the United States and in Canada. Most recently, he received high praise from the New York Times for his performance as "Don" in Athol Fugard's "People Are Living There" at The Signature Theater in New York City, and he won the Seattle Critic's Association "Stellar Acting Award" for his portrayal of "Teach" in the Belltown Theatre Center production of "American Buffalo".

Larry is Founder and Director of The True Acting Institute at Eckerd College where he offers his "Teaching The Meisner Approach Certificate Program" for acting teachers and his "College Actor Master Class." Learn more about these programs at this link:

http://www.trueactinginstitute.com

Larry has been very busy touring Europe, Canada, South America and the US, teaching acting in his renowned professional actors training program, "The Meisner Master Class" which he brings to universities, colleges and professional acting studios around the globe. Larry has also been teaching his "Teen Actor Master Class" at high schools all across the United States.

Larry is available to lead symposiums and key note lectures on the Meisner technique and the craft of acting. The photograph on this page is Larry leading a symposium to more than 500 Brazilian actors, film directors and screenwriters, at renowned FAAP University in Sao Paulo Brazil, where Larry was brought in to introduce the country of Brazil to the Meisner Approach. And Larry just returned from Berlin where he trained 45 professional actors from all around Europe as well as leading two public symposiums on the Meisner Approach and The Art of Directing. Larry is also happy to lead symposiums and master classes at the wonderful TETA conference in Texas and many thespian conferences around the United States.

Larry also leads ongoing master classes at The International Institute for the Performing Arts in Paris, European Act which takes place in London, Paris and Berlin and at the Munich Film Academy.

Learn more about Larry's many international programs at this link:

http://www.trueactinginstitute.com

Larry's has also been busy leading his newest workshop, "The Way Back Out" an empowering and transformational seminar aimed at freeing the authentic expression of people in all fields. Please visit the website to learn more about this exciting event. The link is:

http://www.thewaybackout.com

Larry has also recently launched "College Acting Programs.Com", his website devoted to helping high school actors find the best college acting programs. The website address is:

http://www.collegeactingprograms.com.

Larry can be contacted through his own web site address, http://www.trueactinginstitute.com or emailed at [e-mail]

Customer Reviews

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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars good, but read Larry's workbook series, October 6, 2002

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Anthony's Mom "actteachlive" (NY, USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Loving to Audition: The Audition Workbook for Actors (Career Development Series) (Paperback)

I read Larry Silverberg's "The Meisner Approach" series (4 books) before I read this book. This book applies and gives a shorthand of the techniques covered much more clearly in the series. If you only have money for one book, buy this, but know that it will leave you hungry for more. Still, it is head and shoulders above just about all of the revered and completely nonsensical acting books out there that I know you've read and wondered, "Am I the only fool who doesn't get this?"

5.0 out of 5 stars Larry's book on auditioning..., August 21, 2009

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Richard L. Ashmun "DJ Rxmx" (Seattle, WA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Loving to Audition: The Audition Workbook for Actors (Career Development Series) (Paperback)

Wonderful!
A must have for the beginning actor who is possibly struggling to find a deeper truth in what makes for stellar monologue performance and discovery.

Rick Ashmun
Seattle, Washington

5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect for High School Classrooms, February 26, 2004

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Danielle R. Dilks (Orlando, FL United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Loving to Audition: The Audition Workbook for Actors (Career Development Series) (Paperback)

I have used Mr. Silverberg's techniques for years--ever since he first published his Sanford Meisner series (also fabulous). This is the best book for working theory into practicality that I have found. I'd recommend it to any high school/college level teacher who needs a refreshing new approach to monologue development.