About the Author
Ed Hooks is a professional actor, acting coach, and writer, whose past students include Heather Locklear and Teri Hatcher. As an actor, he has appeared in numerous commercials and television shows including Murder, She Wrote, Home Improvement, and Golden Girls. He has taught a class on acting for show more animators, including the animators for the hit film Antz. Hooks's works include The Audition Book; for the beginning and experienced actor, it explains how to give winning auditions for stage, film, commercials, or television shows. Each type of audition is thoroughly outlined and includes strategies for handling stage fright and locating an agent. His other books include The Ultimate Scene & Monologue Sourcebook, which references more than 1,000 scenes from hundreds of plays. Anyone interested in acting can benefit from the decades of experience Ed Hooks shares with the readers. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Works by Ed Hooks
Acting for Animators, Revised Edition: A Complete Guide to Performance Animation (2000) 68 copies, 1 review
The Ultimate Scene and Monologue Sourcebook: An Actor's Reference to Over 1,000 Scenes and Monologues from More than 300 Contemporary Plays (1994) 67 copies
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I really enjoyed this pocket guide: it's full of insightful tips from an 'old pro', covering a broad range of topics including: why you should keep your range of acting-related interests broad, emotions and crying on stage, dealing with interpersonal differences, accepting the variety of roles you will have to take, and so on. Each topic is accompanied by appropriate anecdotes and is styled like actual audition notes, so you're never confused about what the points mean, and each anecdote is show more proven to have real-world value.
This is not an acting textbook, and indeed the only unsatisfactory part is that on acting 'styles' because of course it can never be inclusive in such a 'pocket' book. But this is highly recommended for the up-and-coming actor looking for some tips on everything from character creation to performance. show less
This is not an acting textbook, and indeed the only unsatisfactory part is that on acting 'styles' because of course it can never be inclusive in such a 'pocket' book. But this is highly recommended for the up-and-coming actor looking for some tips on everything from character creation to performance. show less
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