The actor uncovered

The Actor Uncovered is certainly not a set of rigid rules advocating one method or one singular truth.

Departing from the common guidebook format, Michael Howard uses a unique approach to teaching acting, reflecting on his own history and sharing his own experiences as an actor, director, and teacher.

How he writes about the process and craft of acting is at once intensely personal and relatable for others.Readers are invited to participate as though present in this master teachers classes.

Each human being, and thus each actor, is unique. Howard encourages actors to uncover their own ways of working, using their particular abilities and personality traits.

Going beyond the craft and into human psychology, the history of acting, and actings importance as a life force, The Actor Uncovered offers readers new and deeper ways to study and practice, to be introspective, and to arrive at places of revelation about their craft.The Actor Uncovered will have much to say to beginners, to those who are advanced, and to the professional and working actor.

Howard discusses such topics as:Techniques, styles, and methods in a changing societyRelaxation, concentration, and the breathThe relationship between actor and director and writerMemoryOn camera versus on stageObstaclesAfter more than seventy years as a professional in acting and theater, Howard shows how living creatively and invoking ones own personality can lead to a successful career as an actor.