Great Scenes and Monologues for Actors: Improve Your Memory, Concentration & Confidence with Some of the Best Scenes and Monologues of All Time

by Michael Schulman, Eva Mekler

Great Scenes and Monologues for Actors, spanning nearly 500 years of drama, from Shakespearean England to Contemporary Broadway, is a useful tool for every student or actor wanting to improve their acting skills. Included are 80 scenes and monologues from playwrights ranging from William Shakespeare to Anton Chekhov to Wendy Wasserstein. This small and affordable book by Michael Schulman and Eva Mekler can help improve memory, concentration, and confidence.

Genres: Theatre, Plays

368 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published September 15, 1998

About the author

This profile is for the acting teacher and psychologist. For the New Yorker staff writer, see Michael Schulman.

Michael Schulman, editor of Play the Scene and Great Scenes and Monologues for Actors, is an acting teacher who has taught at the prestigious Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute and the Actors Studio. He founded the British-American Acting Academy and has written and directed a number of plays for Off-Broadway theatre. He is also a psychologist and an author of books on child development.