Theatre Resources

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

   By Christian Jarrett for Psyche Magazine

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

   By Amy Steiger for HowlRound Theatre Commons

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•  "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

•  Good Example of a Self Tape

Actor J. Alphonse Nicholson "From Audition to Set"

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•  Information about Headshots

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

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• Places to Look for Auditions in Atlanta

ATL Audition Links and Resources​​

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NC Theatre People

Live Theater in the Triangle

Triangle Auditions

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Triangle Event Listings and Reviews

INDY Week

•  By Moises Kaufman and Barbara Pitts McAdams

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

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•  By adrienne maree brown

   Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds

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•  By Augusto Boal

   Theatre of the Oppressed

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•  By Michael Rohd

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

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•  By Pat Schneider

   Writing Alone and with Others

•  By Constantin Stanislavski

   Building a Character

   Creating a Role

   An Actor Prepares

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•  By Sharell D. Luckett and Tia M. Shaffer

   Black Acting Methods: Critical Approaches

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•  By Sanford Meisner

   On Acting

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•  By Richard Boleslavsky

   Acting: The First Six Lessons

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•  By Frank Hauser and Russell Reich

   Notes on Directing

   (Informed me as an actor just as much as a

   director!)

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•  By Keith Johnstone

   Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre

   (Not just for improvisers!)

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•  By Viola Spolin

   Theatre Games for the Lone Actor

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

Pure Life 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

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•  By Julia Cameron

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

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•  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"

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•  By adrienne maree brown

   Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds

•  By Resmaa Menakem

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

(See especially the "5 Anchors")

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•  By Stephen Cope

   Yoga and the Quest for the True Self

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

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•  By Pema Chödrön

   The Places that Scare You