(seventh printing)

"Clear, concise and passionate. It ought to be required reading for actors and should be a textbook for all teachers everywhere."

-- Madeleine Sherwood, a leading actress of the Actors Studio at its founding

All About Method Acting is the first and only guide for actors that brings together the most well-known techniques of Method Acting.

Besides basic Method Acting techniques, it includes refinements which were developed in the Ned Manderino Workshop during its beginning months. These were the first basic Method Exercises to go beyond traditional Method Acting and include:

• A specific and inventive Characterization Exercise
• Stimuli Exercise (which has demonstrated its effectiveness beyond basic Method sensory technique)
• The Wandering Personal Object (which has proved itself to give more physicalization to an actor's behavior than the propounded use of temperature sensations)

Also included in All About Method Acting:

• A long discussion of Method Acting details that are involved in creating a role.
• The most extensive list available of Actions and Method Acting Choices.

10th printing

Comments made about the technique exercises which appear in The Transpersonal Actor.

THE TRANSPERSONAL ACTOR challenges accomplished "method" actors to go further through awareness exercises that enable actors to contact the 'superconscious'. Stanislavski coined the word 'superconscious' himself to indicate the real goal of his method. In Manderino's book, you will learn how to take greater risk with your acting instrument than you might with Stanislavski's traditional system.

-- The Bodhi Tree Book Review Leading International Awareness Bookstore

"One of the most refreshing and practical books on acting to emerge since the works of Bolevavsky and Stanislavsky. . . When I create a role, I refer to it for the images it contains."

-- Stacy Keach, prominent American actor

"The most thorough adaptation of Stanislavski techniques ever created. Its intent is nothing less than to take the actor to a consistency of artistry on a transpersonal level (beyond self)."

-- Lee K. Korf, Educational Theatre News.

"Stanislavski would have been proud."

-- JoAnne Meredith, Former Director of the Lee Strasberg Institute, Los Angeles

Constantin Stanislavski, the great revolutionary of modern acting, envisioned that this higher realm of acting technique could be reached through the use of what he called the superconscious. Years of research during the author's teaching of actors globally led to the successful development of practical Superconscious Exercises.

With easy-to-follow guidelines and lists of exercise examples, this book prepares the actor for a journey to a deeper reality and greater truth in acting.  

Actor as Artist which is required reading for beginning actors at various colleges and universities, contains an inspirational collection of essays discussing the origins of acting talent, and progressively outlines its growth through early education, university, and private workshop training.

A necessary book for beginning to advanced actors, it includes essays on:

Talent Training Selecting a Workshop Teachers Technique Career Naturalism

Truth Style Imagination Directing Yourself Personal Problems Intuitive Acting