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	The Peoples Improv Theater is home to the Best Comedy Classes in New York City (New York Magazine), and NYC’s Best Improv Group (Big Black Car, 2005 ECNYs). Improv, sketch comedy, stand-up, and comedic theater shows are presented nightly. http://www.thepit-nyc.com/
	DDO ARTISTS AGENCY NYC: Representing clients in top Broadway shows on the Los Angeles and New York Theatre scenes. The office is directed by Corey Smith and the Dance Department is headed by Thomas Scott. The office is actively developing its TV, Film and Commercial divisions. Submissions can be sent to thomas@ddoagency.com. Please visit www.ddoagency.com for more info about upcoming auditions and company profile. http://www.ddoagency.com/
	Bloc is a talent agency representing professional theatrical & commercial actors, as well as our signature choreographers, dancers and extreme athletes. Bloc successfully represents talent for feature film, episodic, commercial television, live stage and theater. Bloc is truly national, representing top talent in Los Angeles, New York City, and Atlanta." http://www.blocnyc.com
	"The Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre is the home for all things comedy throughout the country. We have affordable, high quality shows seven nights a week. We also run one the largest and most respected improv schools in the country." http://www.ucbtheatre.com/
	Back Stage – Casting You Can Trust Since 1960. Back Stage is the Actor’s Resource you can’t afford to miss. You can save up to 40% with a combined print and online subscription to Back Stage. Join now and find thousands of casting notices and entertainment jobs every day. Create your personal portfolio with resumes, headshots, video and audio demo reels. Plus unlimited submissions to casting notices online. http://www.backstage.com
	The greatest online movie monologue page on the web. Offers links to other monologue resources as well. http://www.whysanity.net/monos/
	NYC Casting Group This is a great resource for actors run by Jagger Kaye. Go to Jaggers website and sign up for his yahoo group to get casting calls sent directly to your e-mail for free! (Scene Interactive members can use their "e-mail personal link" feature on their access control panel to submit directly to any of the many listed calls currently casting with an e-mail address) He also runs a variety of established acting classes and can get you theatre space to put on your performance at the Producers Club in the heart of Times Square http://www.NYCCastingGroup.com/
	Actor's Life Valuable resource with industry related interviews, casting calls, and recommended reading. http://www.actorslife.com
	Inside the Actors Studio, the television series hosted by James Lipton, featuring in-depth interviews with actors, comedians, and musicians is now available for purchase on iTunes.
	An Actor Prepares - Konstantin Stanislavsky So much mystery and veneration surrounds the writings of the great Russian teacher and director Stanislavski that perhaps the greatest surprise awaiting a first-time reader of An Actor Prepares is how conversational, commonsensical, and even at times funny this legendary book is. After many productions with the Moscow Arts Company, Stanislavski sought a way to introduce his new style of acting to the world outside of his rehearsal hall. The resulting book is a "mock diary" of an actor describing a series of exercises and rehearsals in which he participates. He details his own emotional and intellectual reactions to each effort, and how his superficial tricks and mannerisms begin to disappear as he increasingly gives over his conscious ego to a faith in the creative power of his subconscious. Rarely has any writer on the theater achieved the sort of lucid and inspired analysis of the acting process as Stanislavski does here, and his introduction of such now-standard concepts as "the unbroken line," "the magic if," and the idea of emotional memory has laid the groundwork for much of the great acting of the 20th century. While much excess and nonsense was to follow in the steps of Stanislavski's writings, his original texts remain invaluable, and surprisingly accessible, to any actor or student of drama. --John Longenbaugh
	Respect for Acting - Uta Hagen "This fascinating and detailed book about acting is Miss Hagen's credo, the accumulated wisdom of her years spent in intimate communion with her art. It is at once the voicing of her exacting standards for herself and those she teaches, and an explanation of the means to the end. For those unable to avail themselves of her personal tutelage, her book is the best substitute." —Publishers Weekly "Uta Hagen's Respect for Acting is not only pitched on a high artistic level but it is full of homely, practical information by a superb craftswoman. crafts-woman. An illuminating discussion of the standards and techniques of enlightened stage acting." —Brooks Atkinson "Hagen adds to the large corpus of titles on acting with vivid dicta drawn from experience, skill, and a sense of personal and professional worth. Her principal asset in this treatment is her truly significant imagination. Her ‘object exercises’ display a wealth of detail with which to stimulate the student preparing a scene for presentation." —Library Journal "Respect for Acting is a simple, lucid and sympathetic statement of actors' problems in the theatre and basic tenets for their training wrought from the personal experience of a fine actress and teacher of acting." —Harold Clurman "Uta Hagen's Respect for Acting…is a relatively small book. But within it Miss Hagen tells the young actor about as much as can be conveyed in print of his craft." —Los Angeles Times "Uta Hagen is our greatest living actor; she is, moreover, interested and mystified by the presence of talent and its workings; her third gift is a passion to communicate the mysteries of the craft to which she has given her life. There are almost no American actors uninfluenced by her." —Fritz Weaver "This is a textbook for aspiring actors, but working thespians can profit much by it. Anyone with just a casual interest in the theater should also enjoy its behind-the-scenes flavor. Respect for Acting is certainly a special book, perhaps for a limited readership, but of its "How-To" kind I'd give it four curtain calls, and two hollers of "Author, Author" —King Features Syndicate
	True and False : Heresy and Common Sense for the Actor - David Mamet Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Mamet (e.g., Glengarry Glen Ross), considered a foremost contemporary American dramatist by most critics, here offers a bold new approach to acting. Mamet draws on his decades of observing good (and bad) acting to present a slim but intriguing volume of musings. Disdainful of studios, acting schools, and graduate school, he declares, "The classroom will teach you how to obey, and obedience in the theater will get you nowhere." Mamet exhorts actors to show up early, have their lines down cold, and have a single objective for each scene. He contends that overthinking and too much emotional interpretation is not the actor's role. Essential reading for theater collections.-J. Sara Paulk, Coastal Plain Regional Lib., Tifton, Ga.
	Sanford Meisner on Acting - Sanford Meisner Meisner, a member of the Theater Guild and the Group Theater, has devoted most of 50 years to teaching acting and is one of the great unsung resources in American theater. This book is not an acting text, but a journal of a 15-month course taken by 16 adult actors. We follow them as they progress from early exercises through preparation to detailed scene work. Meisner emphasizes emotional truth and acting as the reality of doing. His students find the course difficult, but most improve markedly. Not all survive. Though Meisner is not well, he is a superb teacher and his enthusiasm is undiminished. This is required reading for all actors and those interested in acting. - Thomas E. Luddy, English Dept., Salem State Coll., Mass.
	A Practical Handbook for the Actor - Melissa Bruder 6 working actors describe their methods and philosophies of the theater.
	How To Be A Working Actor - Mari Lyn Henry, Lynne Rogers This celebrated survival guide for actors is still considered "the Bible of the Biz"-the most comprehensive book on the business of acting, informed by an inside view of how casting decisions are actually made-and it has now been updated and expanded to cover new on-line ways actors can promote their picture, resume and video clips; interviewing and auditioning tips for the new crop of young actors; enhancing one's image; and finding jobs in emerging markets. Of course, the book still draws from dozens of industry professionals for authoritative advice on financial survival, networking, meeting agents and casting directors, the performing unions, selecting a wardrobe, studying a role-all the essential information actors have steadily relied on since 1987.
	Peter Hurley Photography An excellent photographer based in New York City http://www.peterhurley.com/
	PhotoLinks - The Photography Network http://www.PhotoLinks.com