The Actor's Scenebook - Michael Schulman

Here is wonderful, up-to-date material for scene
study, selected from the best plays
from recent
theater seasons.

More than 20 monologues for both
men and women, carefully
chosen to display the
widest range of dramatic ability, are essential for
auditioning
actors. A large selection of parts for
woman provide exciting opportunities to sharpen
acting skills in roles that brought accolades from
New York's toughest critics.
More than 80 scenes
in all, many previously unpublished, allow every
actor, professional,
amateur or student, to choose
from either smart, sassy, often outrageous comedy
or deeply moving drama-a unique, balanced
collection of the most successful contemporary
plays.

Having taught acting at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute and at The Actors Studio, Michael Schilman now teaches at his own workshop in New York City. He has also written and directed a number of plays for Off and Off-Off Broadway theatre. He is director of The British-American Acting Academy, a school with braches in New York and London, dedicated to the synthesis of the best of British and American acting techniques. He is also chairman of the theatre department of The Usdan Center for the Creative and Performing Arts. In addition to his theatrical career, he is a clinical and research psychologist who has held assistant professorship at Fordham and Rutgers universities. His Ph.D. is from the City University of New York.

Eva Mekler is both a playwright and former actress who has performed on and off Broadway. Trained in psychology, with master's degree from New York University, she devides her time between her work as a clinician and writing. She is also editor of The new Generation of Acting Teachers.