Mike Kimmel

Gebundenes Buch

The Actor's Book of Quotes

Beschreibung

The Actor's Book of Quotes is a broad and diverse selection of quotations--by actors and non-actors alike--to encourage, inspire, and support performing artists throughout their daily journey and creative process. A wealth of knowledge, worldly wisdom, and humor from some of the greatest minds of all time on topics and categories of special interest to working actors. Subjects include auditions, risk, rejection, self-confidence, success, survival jobs, technique, typecasting, visualization and so many more. A valuable resource volume for working professionals and dedicated newcomers in this highly competitive and creative field.

Autor

Mike Kimmel is a film, television, stage, and commercial actor and acting coach. He is a twenty-plus year member of SAG-AFTRA with extensive experience in both the New York and Los Angeles markets. He has worked with directors Francis Ford Coppola, Robert Townsend, Craig Shapiro, and Christopher Cain among many others. TV credits include Game of Silence, Zoo, Treme, In Plain Sight, Cold Case, Breakout Kings, Memphis Beat, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. He was a regular sketch comedy player on The Tonight Show, performing live on stage and in pre-taped segments with Jay Leno for eleven years. Mike has appeared in dozens of theatrical plays on both coasts, including Radio City Music Hall, Equity Library Theater, Stella Adler Theater, and Theater at the Improv. He trained with Michael Shurtleff, William Hickey, Ralph Marrero, Gloria Maddox, Harold Sylvester, Wendy Davis, Amy Hunter, Bob Collier, and Stuart Robinson. He has a B.A. from Brandeis University and an M.A. from California State University. As an educator, he has taught at Upper Iowa University, University of New Orleans, University of Phoenix, and in the Los Angeles, Beverly Hills, and Burbank, California public school districts. He is a two-time past president of New Orleans Toastmasters, the public speaking organization, and often serves as a speech contest judge. Mike has written and collaborated on numerous scripts for stage and screen. His full-length historical drama on Presidents Lincoln and Garfield was a 2013 semi-finalist in the National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center. He is the 2014 recipient of the Excellence in Teaching Award from Upper Iowa University. Mike is a full voting member of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (the Emmys).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Ben Rose Creative Arts
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 554g
• ISBN-13: 9781953057143
• ISBN-10: 1953057144
• Artikelnr.: 68515517