The Actor's Guide to Creating a Character: The Actor's Guide to Creating a Character: William Esper Teaches the Meisner Technique

By Damon DiMarco, William Esper, David Mamet

William Esper, one of the most celebrated acting teachers of our time, takes us through his step-by-step approach to the central challenge of advanced acting work: creating and playing a character. Esper's first book, The Actor's Art and Craft , earned praise for describing the basics taught in his famous first-year acting class. The Actor's Guide to Creating a Character continues the journey. In these pages, co-author Damon DiMarco vividly re-creates Esper's second-year course, again through the experiences of a fictional class. Esper's training builds on Sanford Meisner's legendary exercises, a world-renowned technique that Esper further developed through his long association with Meisner and the decades he has spent training a host of distinguished actors. His approach is flexible enough to apply to any role, helping actors to create characters with truthful and compelling inner lives.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0345805682
• ISBN13: 9780345805683
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: Anchor Books
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.1" x 7.9"