Auditioning An Actor-Friendly Guide

Joanna Merlin has written the definitive guide to auditioning for stage and screen. Merlin has spent her career on both sides of the auditioning process, both as an award-winning casting director who has worked with such directors as Harold Prince, Bernardo Bertolucci, and James Ivory, and as an accomplished actor herself. Auditioning provides everything the actor needs to achieve self-confidence and artistic honesty in an audition-from basic practical advice to an in-depth framework for preparing a role. Filled with tips from esteemed people in the business-including James Lapine, Nora Ephron, Stephen Sondheim, Wendy Wasserstein, George C. Wolfe, and Allison Janney-and charged with tremendous wisdom, this indispensable resource will arm the reader to face an actor's greatest challenge: getting the part.Merlin, Joanna is the author of 'Auditioning An Actor-Friendly Guide', published 2001 under ISBN 9780375725371 and ISBN 0375725377.