Theatre Resources

Articles for Actors

• "Acting Changes the Brain: It's how actors get lost in a role"

By Christian Jarrett for Psyche Magazine

• "Whiteness, Patriarchy, and Resistance in Actor Training Texts: Reframing Acting Students as Embodied Critical Thinkers"

By Amy Steiger for HowlRound Theatre Commons

• "Training with a Difference: As the nation grows more diverse, theatre education needs to become less Eurocentric and more inclusive"

By Nicole Brewer for American Theatre Magazine

Audition Tips

• Good Example of a Self Tape

Actor J. Alphonse Nicholson "From Audition to Set"

• Information about Headshots

Backstage: "Actor Headshots: Everything You Need to Know"

• Places to Look for Auditions in Atlanta

ATL Audition Links and Resources

• How to Make a Demo Reel with No Experience

Triangle Theater FB Groups

NC Theatre People

Live Theater in the Triangle

Triangle Auditions

Triangle Event Listings and Reviews

Triangle Theater Weekly

Beltline to Broadway

Cultural Voice of North Carolina

Casting Notices for Film

Backstage

Actors Access

UNCSA Student Film Casting Notices

Freewater Productions (Duke)

UNC Student Film Association

Books for Devising Inspiration

• By Moises Kaufman and Barbara Pitts McAdams

Moment Work: Tectonic Theater Project's Process of Devising Theatre

• By adrienne maree brown

Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds

• By Augusto Boal

Theatre of the Oppressed

• By Michael Rohd

Theatre for Community, Conflict, and Dialogue: The Hope is Vital Training Manual

• By Pat Schneider

Writing Alone and with Others

Tool for Dialects

• International Dialects of English Archive

Books for Actors

• By Constantin Stanislavski

Building a Character

Creating a Role

An Actor Prepares

• By Sharell D. Luckett and Tia M. Shaffer

Black Acting Methods: Critical Approaches

• By Sanford Meisner

On Acting

• By Richard Boleslavsky

Acting: The First Six Lessons

• By Frank Hauser and Russell Reich

Notes on Directing

(Informed me as an actor just as much as a

director!)

• By Keith Johnstone

Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre

(Not just for improvisers!)

• By Viola Spolin

Theatre Games for the Lone Actor

Triangle Theater Groups

Blue Box Theatre Company - Chapel Hill

Boy with Box Theatre Company - Carrboro

Brave New Classics - Durham

Bulldog Ensemble Theater - Durham

Burning Coal Theatre Company - Raleigh

Cary Playwrights Forum - Cary

Center Theatre Company - Carrboro

eggNYMPH Artists Collective - Raleigh

Firebox Theatre Company - Wake Forest

Honest Pint Theatre Company - Raleigh

Justice Theater Project - Raleigh

Moonlight Stage - Raleigh

National Women's Theatre Festival - Raleigh

NRACT - Raleigh

Odyssey Stage - Durham

Other Only Windows - Raleigh

Poiema Arts Media - Raleigh

Playmakers Repertory Company - Chapel Hill

Pure Life Theatre - Raleigh

Raleigh Little Theatre - Raleigh

RedBird Theater Company - Durham

Reclaiming Our Time - Raleigh

Scrap Paper Shakespeare - Chapel Hill/Durham

Seymour Playwrights - Chapel Hill

Sips & Scripts - Chapel Hill

Stone Soup Theater - Chapel Hill

StreetSigns - Chapel Hill

Studio 1 - Burlington

Sweet Tea Shakespeare - Raleigh/Fayetteville

Switchyard Theatre Company - Raleigh

Theater Delta - Durham

Theatre in the Park - Cary

Theatre Raleigh - Raleigh

Books for the Creative Life at Large

• By Julia Cameron

The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity

• By Elizabeth Gilbert

TED Talk on "Your Elusive Creative Genius"

Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

• By Brené Brown

TED Talk on "The Power of Vulnerability"

• By adrienne maree brown

Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds

Tools for Being

• By Resmaa Menakem

My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies

(See especially the "5 Anchors")

• By Stephen Cope

Yoga and the Quest for the True Self

(See especially "Breathe, Relax, Feel, Watch, Allow")

• By Pema Chödrön

The Places that Scare You