English Actors

An Actor's Business covers everything you need to know to market yourself as an actor, with thorough and concise information about the movie-making process, drama school, community theatre, acting on television and in commercials, unions, and agents. A thorough and well-written resource for anyone wanting to understand all facets of the acting business, this book presents an experienced perspective on the world of professional acting.

Like Kofi Annan, Larry Miller is one of the most irresistible comic personalities working today. Known for years as an actor, writer, comedian, and sexual pioneer, he's gained a new following as a cultural commentator and frequent guest on political shows. Now, in Spoiled Rotten America, he fixes his gaze on what's funny about our daily lives; which includes, roughly speaking, everything.

They say all the world's a stage, but have you read the script? Bible Script for Life is a new series brought to you by Hillary Hawkins, Christian, creator, producer, performer. Bible Script for Life includes affirmations derived from the word of God to help you on your journey through life. Repeat them with feeling and transform your reality through the power of the word.

A short story from the British Library Crime Classic collection Final Acts. The third act of a play is cut short by the death of an actor onstage. Inspector Bristow must delve into the man's past and relationships with his colleagues to solve the mystery.

Young, impressionable Masha sees a tragic actor, Fenogenov, during his benefit night and falls madly in love with him. Masha decides to run away with the actor and marry him despite her father's clear disapproval. Her father disowns her, describing her husband as idle, stupid and of no fixed home or occupation. Masha later finds herself in desperate need of money and has to seek help from her farther. Read in English, unabridged.

Ernest Bramah (1868-1942) was an English author of 21 novels and numerous short stories and features. His humorous works have been ranked with Jerome K. Jerome and W. W. Jacobs, his detective stories with Conan Doyle, his politico-science fiction with H. G. Wells, and his supernatural stories with Algernon Blackwood. In his stories of detection, Bramah hit on the idea of a blind detective, Max Carrados, whose triumphs are all the more amazing because of his disability.

Hollywood isn’t an easy place to work, for various reasons. And this is especially true for women. The amount of discrimination, mistreatment, and sexual harassment that many actresses in Hollywood experienced is enough to fill a book of its own. However, in spite of these limiting factors, there are female actors who have risen through the ranks and made a name for themselves. All while fighting the misogynistic views the film and music industry often propagate.

This is a splendid classic book on stage fencing by a real master - both as military instructor and as a specialist in this special skill adapted to the theatre. Contains as well some fascinating information on the old real-life fencing, the duels, the battles, the famous fencing masters, and schools. Easy to understand, easy to remember, easy to learn.

Get into learning Spanish with Gritty Spanish Basics, the perfect audio course for beginners. This engaging Spanish learning audiobook features 28 real-life conversations that will throw you right into practical Spanish, covering topics like small talk, introductions, directions, ordering at a restaurant, vacation plans, movies, doctor visits, hotel check-ins, music & and so much more! Each dialogue helps you build a solid foundation in Spanish through fun and relatable scenarios.

A collection of short stories by Anton Chekhov, featuring "A Tragic Actor", "In a Strange Land", "Oh the Public", "The Looking Glass", "Her Husband", and "Overdoing It".

These stories are small masterpieces. The scene is set quickly, and within a few sentences the storyline is underway. But all seem to contain elements of the unexpected.

Jesse Vint is a veteran of over 100 films and television shows. He has also produced, directed, and written full-length feature films that have played throughout the world. Jesse shows actors how to internalize. Once they listen to this audiobook, they will have a clarity about acting and what it is that they have never had before, regardless of how long they've studied.

In the cutthroat world of theater, actors need all the help they can get to have a #legup on the competition. This essential "how-to" guide explains it all - from choosing the right college to making your Broadway debut - while teaching you how to behave on social media along the way! This book will aid you in your quest to find what it means to be #SOBLESSED.

The Aspiring Actor's Handbook is written for curious and want-to-be actors, and designed to help them make informed decisions about pursuing an acting career. Veteran actresses Molly Cheek and Debbie Zipp have culled the wit and wisdom of a wide array of successful actors from Dee Wallace to Beth Grant, to bring aspiring and new actors the kind of mentoring perspective so many in the business wish they had had when they were starting out.

What follows is fiction, pure and not, perhaps, all that simple. Any resemblance of characters or events to reality is coincidence. It is a short play inspired by the most famous work of Pirandello about Six Characters in Search of an Author. There are, in fact, six "characters", plus the narrator pretending to be Pirandello—four female voices, three male: the wife, the lover, the husband, the girlfriend, the cleaner, the daughter, and the narrator.

Got five minutes? Great! Listen to this book to get ideas on how to get your voiceover business going.

The quality of your work and your relationships with others can make or break your voiceover career. This guide seeks to give you tips and tricks to use while you are narrating and producing great-quality sound products. It will help you to gain repeat business and keep a positive reputation in the eyes (and ears) of your clients.

From award-winning sports broadcaster and actress Jayne Kennedy comes a compelling, inspirational, and unflinchingly honest memoir about her rise in Hollywood and beyond.

In early 2019, when playwright Kirk Wood Bromley was diagnosed with cancer, his fans and collaborators came together to fund and record three of his plays, one of which was Icarus and Aria, an "upgraded Romeo and Juliet" that was originally performed under the dramatory of Aaron Beall at the first New York International Fringe Festival in 1997.

After a career of inspiring millions with these two worldwide phenomena, David Yates recounts his experiences in the newly released book, Swimming Upstream. This book will embolden you to overcome your past and swim against the currents to lead your big life, throwing off the shackles of your past via the narrative of Yates' life. If you're looking to get unstuck or want to shift to big thinking, Swimming Upstream was written just for you. You'll experience lessons from overcoming individuals with classic self-help techniques grounded in relentless faith.

A little girl's life has been turned upside down following the discovery of her parents and all that she will lose. Her plush upper-class life was no more. Regaining her momentum, she evolves into who she is as she blooms in Becoming Amari.