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"ACTING TEACHERS OF AMERICA: A Vital Tradition"

By Ronald Rand and Luigi Scorcia

Published by Allworth Press

The most significant and comprehensive book ever published in America on actor

training with 50 influential acting teachers, plus actors and directors who teach acting.

Insights and experiences never before shared – offering keys on creating a successful life and career in theatre, film and television.

Interviews never published before with 50 former students of such film, TV and stage stars including: SIDNEY POITIER, GENE HACKMAN, JAMES GANDOLFINI,

WILLIAM HURT, EDWARD NORTON, BILLY CRUDUP, PATTI LUPONE, JOBETH WILLIAMS, LAURA LINNEY, KAREN ALLEN, LAURA SAN GIACOMO, JOHN TUTURRO,

DORIS ROBERTS, STEVE BUSCHEMI, KRISTIN DAVIS, PAMELA GIEN, SAM ROCKWELL, LIBBY SKALA, LILIAS WHITE, BOYD GAINES, SARAH WYNTER, BETSY

AIDEN, ERIQ LASALLE, and SALOME JENS.

Unforgettable photographs by internationally renowned photographer, Luigi Scorcia

Foreword by world renowned theatre practitioner, J. Michael Miller, President of The Actors Center in New York City

Acting Teachers/Actors/Directors include:

Gregory Abels Founder of GATE, world-renowned director, directed acclaimed solo play Let it Be Art!, with Ronald Rand.

Gary Austin (Founder of world famous ‘The Foundlings’ – students included: Lindsay Crouse, Jennifer Grey, Helen Hunt, Lisa Kudrow, Pat Morita, Helen Slater, and

Lil l ias White) Anne Bogartis the Artistic Director of SITI Company, which she founded with Japanese director, Tadashi Suzuki in 1992. Her recent works with SITI include A

Midsummer Night’s Dream; bobrauschenbergamerica; War of the Worlds; The Radio Play; Culture of Desire; and Charles Mee’s Orestes.

Ivana Chubbuck (Acting Coach to Brad Pitt, Charlize Theron in Monster, Halle Berry in Monsters Ball)

Andre De Shields (Broadway star of The Full Monty, The Wiz & Ain’t Misbehavin) OlympiaDukakis (Oscar-winning actress of Moonstruck, and performs her solo

play, Rose, around the world) William Esper (actors he has worked with include: Kim Basinger, Kathy Bates,

Aaron Eckhart, Calista Flockhart, Jeff Goldblum, John Malkovich, Sam Rockwell, Richard Schiff, and Paul Sorvino)

Zelda Fichandler (Co-Founder and Producing Artistic Director of Arena Stage in Washington, D.C., 1950-1991. She received the Tony Award in 1976, and was inducted

into the Theatre Hall of Fame) Gerald Freedman (directed on Broadway: Hair, The Robber Bridegroom, The

Grand Tour, West SideStory (revival, co-directed with Jerome Robbins) Stephen McKinley-Henderson(On Broadway starred in August Wilson’s King

Hedley II and the revival of Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, and Off-Broadway in Mr. Wilson’s Jitney and Seven Guitars).

Anne Jackson (On Broadway starred in Summer and Smoke; Oh Men, Oh Women; Middle of the Night; Lost in Yonkers; Major Barbara; Rhinoceros; LUV; Promenade All;

Waltz of the Toreadors; Twice Around the Park.) Michael Kahn(Artistic Director of the Shakespeare Theatre Company (Washington, D.C.) Directed on Broadway: Showboat, revival of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof with Elizabeth

Ashley, Othello, and the Night of the Tribades. His students included: Will iam Hurt, Laura Linney, Harvey Keitel, Val Kilmer, Kevin Kline, Patti LuPone, Kelly

McGill is, Christopher Reeve, and Robin Will iams. Milton Katselas famed Hollywood acting teacher at The Beverly Hills Playhouse,

taught such stars as Jenna Elfman, George Clooney, Alec Baldwin, Tom Selleck, Michelle Pfeiffer, Ted Danson, Tony Danza, Jeffrey Tambor, Tyne Daly, Mel Harris.

Directed original 1960 production of Edward Albee's The Zoo Story, Broadway production of Butterflies Are Free and the 1972 movie version starring Goldie Hawn.

Theodore Mann Co-founded Circle in the Square Theatre along with Jose Quintero in 1951. He has presented over 200 productions, including Tennessee

Will iams' Summer and Smoke with Geraldine Page. Founded the Circle in the Square Theatre School. Directed Mourning Becomes Electra with Colleen Dewhurst, The Iceman Cometh with James Earl Jones, The Glass Menagerie with Maureen Stapleton and Rip

Torn. Eric Morris Author of 5 best-selling books on acting, he has taught over 20,000

students worldwide, including Jack Nicholson and Arnold Schwarzenegger. Larry MossHis coaching includes Helen Hunt As Good As It Gets; Hilary Swank

Boys Don’t Cry, Million Dollar Baby, and in her upcoming Black Dahlia); Jim Carrey The Majestic; Tobey Maguire Seabiscuit,; and Leonardo diCaprio The Aviator,

The Departed, Blood Diamond. Lloyd Richards Director of the original production of Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun, with Sidney Poitier and Ruby Dee. Brought August Wilson to Broadway with

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom in 1984. Headed the National Playwrights Conference (O'Neill Theater Center), helped develop careers of Wendy Wasserstein, Christopher

Durang, Lee Blessing and David Henry Hwang. Marian Seldes is in the Guiness Book of World Records for never missing a single

performance in Deathtrap from 1978 until late 1982. Her legendary career includes on Broadway in Medea, Ondine, Crime & Punishment, Tiny Alice, A Delicate Balance, Equus, and in Edward Albee’s Three Tall Women, and Dedication or The Stuff of

Dreams. Mel ShapiroDirecting includes Broadway production of Two Gentleman of Verona, original off-Broadway production of The House of Blue Leaves, and The

Increased Difficulty of Concentration for Lincoln Center Repertory.

6x 9, 288 pages

Paperback

75 b & w illustrations $19.95

ISBN 1-58115-473-9 February 2007

And you’re cordially invited to TWO special celebrations:

First Party:

Sunday, April 1st 20077-9pm

at

Sandra CameronDanceCenter

199 Lafayette Street, New York City

(take R train to Prince Street station and walk east to Lafayette, and walk

south approx. 3 blocks or take 6 train to Spring Street station and walk

south one block).

Wine and cheese will be served.

with Special Guests

RSVP: email to RonaldRand13@yahoo.com or call 1-800-490-1175

Studio phone number :(212)431-1825 www.SandraCameron.com

Second Party:

Monday, April 2nd, 2007

The Drama Book Shop

250 West 40 St.(between 7th & 8th Avenues), New York City

Book store phone number: (212) 944-0595 ww w.DramaBookShop.com

5-6pm Roundtable discussion with teachers and actors who are in the

Book!!

6-7pmwine & cheese will be served

"ACTING TEACHERS OF AMERICA:

A Vital Tradition"

by Ronald Rand and Luigi Scorcia

Published by Allworth Press

ENTIRE LIST OF 50 of the most influential acting teachers in America: Gregory Abels,

Gary Austin, Harold Baldridge, Bud Beyer, Anne Bogart, Ron Burrus, Ivana

Chubbuck, Susan Grace Cohen, Andre De Shields, Olympia Dukakis, William Esper,

Zelda Fichandler, Maggie Flanigan, Gerald Freedman, Julie Garfield, Kathryn Gately,

Stephen McKinley-Henderson, Michael Howard, Anne Jackson, Zina Jasper, Michael

Kahn, Milton Katselas, Ed Kovens, Barbara Mackenzie-Wood, Theodore Mann,

Joanna Merlin, Robert X Modica, Eric Morris, George Morrison, Larry Moss,

Elizabeth Parrish, Robert Patterson, Austin Pendleton, Carol Fox Prescott, Lloyd

Richards, Joanna Rotté , Larry Sacharow, Terry Schreiber, Marian Seldes, Mel

Shapiro, Sande Shurin, Melissa Smith, Robin Lynn Smith, Alice Spivak, Arthur

Storch, John Strasberg, Penny Templeton, Ron van Lieu, Wendy Ward, Loyd

Williamson, are those who offer a rare glimpse through illuminating interviews.

ENTIRE LIST of the 50 rare interviews with many well-known actors (former students of the teachers in the book): Sidney Poitier, Gene Hackman, James Gandolfini, Laura Linney, Edward Norton, Billy Crudup, Patti LuPone, JoBeth Williams, Libby Skala, Eriq LaSalle, Salome Jens, Karen Allen, Laura San Giacomo, Sarah Wynter, Molly Regan, Chris Chin, Alexandra Gersten-

Vassilaros, Jill Melanie Wirth, Stephanie DiMaggio, Bethany Butler, Megan Hilty, Dawn Arnold, John Tuturro, Doris Roberts, Steve Buschemi, Kate Wisniewski, James Dale, Saxon Trainor, Kristin Davis, Joan Hotchkiss, Pamela Gien, Saheem Ali, Adam Dannheiser, Christopher Roberts, Jay

Russell, Sam Rockwell, Michal Sinnot, Jickie Schnee, Clayton Dean Smith, Lillias White, Betsy Aiden, Amos Crawley, Jill Bianchini, Boyd Gaines,

Robbie Sublett, Kate Vandever, and William Hurt.

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