- "Acting is an activity in which a story is told by means of its enactment by an actor who adopts a character…"
The craft of portraying a character or role through speech, movement, and expression.
Acting Techniques: The different acting techniques used by actors to deliver a performance, including Stanislavski, Meisner, and Method acting.
Script Analysis: The process of analyzing the script to understand characterization, plot, themes, and other elements that will influence the actor's interpretation of the role.
Voice and Speech: Techniques used to develop vocal control and clarity, including breathing, projection, articulation, and dialects.
Movement and Physicality: Training the body to express emotions and actions through gesture, posture, and physicality, including stage combat and dance.
Improv: The art of spontaneous performance, emphasizing creativity, collaboration, and flexibility.
Auditioning: The process of preparing for and performing in auditions, including selecting appropriate material, understanding casting types, and dealing with nerves.
Rehearsal Techniques: The methods used by actors to effectively prepare for performances, including scene work, character development, and collaboration with other actors and the director.
Professional Development: Advice and resources for actors looking to develop their careers, including networking, contracts, and the business of acting.
- "Acting involves a broad range of skills, including a well-developed imagination, emotional facility, physical expressivity, vocal projection, clarity of speech, and the ability to interpret drama."
- "Acting also demands an ability to employ dialects, accents, improvisation, observation and emulation, mime, and stage combat."
- "Many actors train at length in specialist programs or colleges to develop these skills."
- "Actors and actresses will often have many instructors and teachers for a full range of training involving singing, scene-work, audition techniques, and acting for a camera."
- "Most early sources in the West that examine the art of acting discuss it as part of rhetoric."
- "Most early sources in the West that examine the art of acting discuss it as part of rhetoric." (Note: The term 'hypokrisis' refers to acting in Greek.)
- "Acting is an activity in which a story is told by means of its enactment by an actor who adopts a character—in theatre, television, film, radio, or any other medium that makes use of the mimetic mode."
- "Acting involves a broad range of skills, including a well-developed imagination…"
- "Acting involves a broad range of skills, including… emotional facility…"
- "Acting involves a broad range of skills, including… vocal projection…"
- "Acting involves a broad range of skills, including… clarity of speech…"
- "Acting involves a broad range of skills, including… the ability to interpret drama."
- "Acting also demands an ability to employ dialects, accents…"
- "Acting also demands… improvisation, observation and emulation, mime, and stage combat."
- "The vast majority of professional actors have undergone extensive training."
- "Many actors train at length in specialist programs or colleges to develop these skills."
- "Actors and actresses will often have many instructors and teachers for a full range of training involving… singing, scene-work, audition techniques, and acting for camera."
- "Acting is an activity… in theatre, television, film, radio, or any other medium that makes use of the mimetic mode."
- "Acting is an activity… in any other medium that makes use of the mimetic mode."