Actors Soup: An Actor's Handbook

by Don Shook

Actors Soup is a 140 page handbook for actors, singers, motivational speakers, speech-makers and those striving to improve their performance talents. Designed primarily for entertainers, with helpful hints on delivering monologues, characterizations, and improving voice, articulation, and improvizational capabilities, it is also a useful tool for anyone wanting to improve self-image and comfort levels in interview or presentational situations. Utilizing materials compiled over forty years by the 2009 Senior Poet Laureate of Texas and nationally known actor, director, producer, teacher and author, The Actors Soup Handbook offers advice and exercises which promote talent development through techniques unique to the author's METHOD. By utilization of imagination, controlled release of inhibitions, and common sense, Shook shows you how to enhance your abilities in all areas related to theatre, film, commercials, industrials and speaking engagements. A must read for beginners and professionals alike, this book affords rare insight into the performance world and the ability to improve participation in it. The Actors Soup Handbook will whet your performance appetite in an entertaining, easy-to-digest manner.

140 pages, Paperback

Published May 1, 2015