Bay Area Actor

Give and Take by Adam Grant is subtitled 'A revolutionary approach to success' - I became interested in the book after reading ab...

Some good things I've been reading lately include Denise Kiernan's The Girls of Atomic City , a non-fiction book about Oak Ridge, ...

I am an actor who is not good at imagining.  At least when it comes to the objects and things that might surround a character who lives in a...

Last week I inventoried my monologues. I looked back through my audition tracking spreadsheet to remind myself what monologues I've bee...

Here's something I've been thinking about this week: how so many folks I know (myself included) are actor/something else.  I'm...

Don't know about you, but my monologues are feeling stale, I'm not in rehearsal or production for anything, so now seems like a good...

Making Movies is Sidney Lumet's book about just that.  It's fantastic. In The Pawnbroker , Rod Steiger is the title character, ru...

Here are some books that are on my shelf and about acting. 1. The Actor and the Target by Declan Donnelan - author is the artistic direct...

It's free.  Thanks to the internet, the catalog is available 24/7, with the option of requesting that books get held for me at my branch...