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Recommended Reading
Books on Acting ––––––––––
“The Power of The Actor” by Ivana Chubbuck “Respect for Acting” by Uta Hagen “A Challenge For The Actor” by Uta Hagen “Being And Doing” by Eric Morris “Truth” by Susan Batson “The Technique of Acting” by Stella Adler “Intent to Live” by Larry Moss “Towards A Poor Theater” by Jerzy Grotowski “The Art of Acting” by Stella Adler “Acting 2.0” by Anthony Abeson “Acting Class” by Milton Katselas “The Actor’s Eye” by Morris Carnovsky “All About Method Acting” by Ned Manderino “The Vakhtangov Sourcebook” by Andrei Malaev-Babel “Audition” by Michael Shurtleff “The Open Door” by Peter Brook “Stanislavski in Rehearsal” by Vasili Toporkov “The Presence of The Actor” by Joseph Chaikin “Strasberg At The Actors Studio” edited by Robert Hethmon “The War of Art” “On Acting” by Steven Pressfield by Sanford Meisner
W W W . C O R E Y P A R K E R A C T I N G . C O M “On The Technique of Acting” by Michael Chekhov “The Existential Actor” by Jeff Zinn “The Theater And Its Double” by Antonin Artaud “An Acrobat of The Heart” by Stephen Wangh “Auditioning” by Joanna Merlin “Richard Burton in Hamlet” by Richard Sterne “Acting: The First Six Steps” by Richard Boleslavsky “The Empty Space” by Peter Brook “Advice to The Players” by Robert Lewis “On Acting” by Laurence Olivier “An Actor’s Work: Stanislavski” (An Actor Prepares) “Juilliard to Jail” retranslated and edited by Leah Joki by Jean Benedetti “On Screen Acting” “Advanced Teaching for The Actor, Teacher by Edward Dmytryk and Director” by Terry Schreiber “The Actor's Art and Craft” by William Esper & Damon DiMarco “How to Stop Acting” by Harold Guskin “Acting and Living in Discovery” by Carol Rosenfeld
Books on Directing ––––––––––
“On Directing” “No Tricks in My Pocket: Paul Newman Directs” by Elia Kazan by Stewart Stern
“On Directing” “Cassavetes on Cassavetes” by Harold Clurman by John Cassavetes and Ray Carney
“Stanislavsky Directs” “Levinson on Levinson” by Nikolai Gorchakov edited by David Thompson
W W W . C O R E Y P A R K E R A C T I N G . C O M “The Fervent Years” “Making Movies” by Harold Clurman by Sidney Lumet
Collections of Interviews on Acting ––––––––––
“Actors at Work” “Actor Speaks” by Rosemarie Tichler by Janet Sonenberg
“Playing To The Camera” “Conversations With Marlon Brando” by Bert Cardullo, Harry Geduld by Laurence Grobel
“Figures of Light” “Conversations with Al Pacino” by Carole Zucker by Laurence Grobel “Collected Interviews: Voices From Cinema” by Wheeler Winston Dixon “Off Camera” by Leonard Probst “In The Company of Actors” by Carole Zucker “Actors on Acting” by Toby Cole “Acting Now” by Edward Vilga “Actors Talk” by Dennis Brown “On Acting” edited by Mary Luckhurst and Chloe Veltman
Autobiography/Biography ––––––––––
“The Name Above The Title” “The Ragman’s Son” by Frank Capra by Kirk Douglas
“My Story” “A Life” by Ingrid Bergman by Elia Kazan
“An Open Book” “Hollywood Animal” by John Huston by Joe Esterhazs
“A Life in Parts” “One Man Tango” by Bryan Cranston by Anthony Quinn
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“Learning to Live Out Loud” “Paul Robeson” by Piper Laurie by Martin Duberman
“Watch Me” “Just One More Thing” by Anjelica Huston by Peter Falk
“Timebends” “Never Have Your Dog Stuffed” by Arthur Miller by Alan Alda
“Run-through” “Confessions of An Actor” by John Houseman by Laurence Olivier
“Changing” “Lessons in Becoming Myself” by Liv Ullman by Ellyn Burstyn
“The Bright Lights” “Each Man in His Time” by Marian Seldes by Raoul Walsh
“The Measure of A Man” “I Only Know Who I Am When I’m Somebody by Sidney Poitier Else” by Danny Aiello “Kiss Me Like A Stranger” by Gene Wilder “Lee Strasberg” by Cindy Adams “A Dream of Passion” by Lee Strasberg “When Do I Start?” by Karl Malden “Cagney on Cagney” by James Cagney “Josh” by Joshua Logan “Bittersweet” by Susan Strasberg “I Must Say” by Martin Short “Show Me The Magic” by Paul Mazursky “My Extraordinary Ordinary Life” by Sissy Spacek “This ‘N’ That” by Bette Davis “Me” by Katherine Hepburn “Voices and Silences” by James Earl Jones “It’s Always Something” by Gilda Radner “Laurette” by Marguerite Courtney
W W W . C O R E Y P A R K E R A C T I N G . C O M “Tracy Morgan” “Eleanora Duse: The Mystic in The Theater” by Tracy Morgan by Eva LeGalliene
“Shelley” “My Life” by Shelley Winters by Henry Fonda
“Motel Chronicles” “An Actor And A Gentleman” by Sam Shepard by Louis Gossett, Jr.
“A Terrible Liar” “Notes” by Hume Cronyn by Eleanor Coppola
Casting ––––––––––
“A Star is Found” by Jane Jenkins and Janet Hirshenson
Actors Studio ––––––––––
“A Player’s Place” by David Garfield
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