"The way some introductory acting books are written it seems that a literal leg break is your best option. In "The Young Actor's Handbook", Jeremy Kruse, an actor writer producer and director who teaches method acting acting for camera improvisation and sketch comedy at The Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in New York, mends this mangled genre distilling invaluable lessons and years of experience down to a lean mean intuitive hundred page primer."-- Amazon.com.
Contents
Open-ended scene exercise -- Hitting your mark and continuity exercise -- Actor's worksheet -- Advanced actor's worksheet -- Concepts -- Guidance -- Acting techniques -- Film acting -- Auditioning -- The business of acting -- Writing and writing exercises -- Short monologues.