The Actor's Secret

Offering revolutionary new training for actors and performers, The Actors Secret introduces three powerful disciplines designed to transform your performance: Developed by Betsy Polatin, a movement specialist and Master Lecturer at Boston Universitys College of Fine Arts, the books simple tools, explorations, and exercises draw on the three discipl... ines to help you explore your acting work, improve stage presence and vocal production, reduce performance anxiety and stress, and initiate healing and self-growth. Many techniques and self-help books teach a new way of "doing." The secret of this book lies in "non-doing." By learning to first recognize and then suspend habitual patterns, you open the door to deeper artistic choices. BETSY POLATIN is a movement specialist with four decades of experience in body-mind education and performance training. She has worked with many performing artists in theater, film, and music, including such luminaries as Rashida Jones, Ginnifer Goodwin, Andre Gregory, and John Denver. As a highly respected senior Alexander Technique educator, she pioneered a four-year Alexander curriculum for the acting conservatory program at Boston Universitys College of Fine Arts, where she is a Master Lecturer. A certified Breathing Coordination instructor and a Somatic Experiencing practitioner, she holds a BA in dance and an MFA in theater education. She continues to teach her work extensively, both privately and in master classes in the United States and abroad. This is an indispensable book for people seriously interested in acting and is the most important book on acting I have read in a long time. The details and techniques discussed are very impressive and essential for the serious actor.” Stewart F. Lane, acclaimed five-time Tony Awardwinning Broadway producer, "War Horse" and "Top Hat" Olympia Dukakis, Academy Award and Golden Globewinning actress, "Moonstruck" and "Steel Magnolias" I have often puzzled at what makes an actor believable; what really lets you enter into their characters ...Read More