num_pages: 550
description: Stephen Book is a top Hollywood acting coach and teacher and a theatre director. His students have won Oscars, Emmys, Tonys, Obies, and Grammys. Thirteen of his present or former students are featured in either starring roles or as cast regulars in the current primetime television schedule. This book contains film and television scenes in which Book-coached actors, used his Improvisation Technique to create their performances. These scenes, showing the actors' performance choices, demonstrate the use of Improvisation Technique in different genres of acting. Well-known theatre and film scenes are included, as well as scenes from such TV shows as 'Frasier', 'Melrose Place', 'Star Trek: Voyager', 'LA Law' and 'The Practice'.
language: English
title: Book on Acting: Improvisation Technique for the Professional Actor in Film, Theater, and Television
titlecomplete: Book on Acting: Improvisation Technique for the Professional Actor in Film, Theater, and Television
genres: Nonfiction
ratings_count: 36
publisher: Silman-James Press