Acting Exercises for Non-Traditional Staging

Acknowledgements

I have invented nothing. All of the exercises in this book are adaptations, re-imaginings and re-interpretations of the exercises of the master actor and acting teacher Michael Chekhov, who died long before I was born. Yet they are also riffs off all the exercises created by the excellent teachers and mentors I have had the great joy of working with across the years.

Although I cannot mention them all, here are the ones to whom I owe particular thanks and all my gratitude: the late wonderful Mala Powers, Lisa Dalton, Wil Kilroy, Joanna Merlin, David Zinder, Lenard Petit, Jessica Cerullo, Bud Beyer, Ed Menta and Bill Morris. Profound thanks also to Michael Kass and Rev. Ed Oberholtzer on the secrets of breathwork and meditation, ...