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Lisa Dalton is an accomplished author and educator, with three #1 bestsellers, contributions to six books, and four authored works. Her writing blends decades of acting, teaching, and directing experience, offering practical insights and creative guidance. Through her books, Dalton empowers actors, teachers, and directors to develop technique, imagination, and performance confidence.

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Acting the Michael Chekhov Way (The Michael Chekhov Playbook Series)

Rooted in Chekhov's Guiding Principles and Laws of Composition Acting the Michael Chekhov Way...

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Improvisation the Michael Chekhov Way (The Michael Chekhov Playbook Series)

Improvisation the Michael Chekhov Way: Active Exploration of Acting Techniques provides readers with dozens...

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The Michael Chekhov Technique Playbook

This definitive book on Michael Chekhov's Technique offers a carefully crafted training sequence for learning the echnique, aimed for...

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Murder Of Talent: How Pop Culture Is Killing "IT"

Behind-the-Scenes Tell-All About How Talented Artists and Athletes Are Mentally and Physically Killed by Badly Behaving Fans, Families, Teachers and Coaches...

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Falling For The Stars: A Stunt Gal's Tattle Tales

Any fan of movies and TV will love reading this Amazon #1 Best seller In Falling For The Stars, Lisa Dalton tattles about her humorous and harrowing true tales...

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Stanislavsky and Screen Actor Training

Stanislavsky and Screen Actor Training is a collection of essays mapping the acting field’s current engagement with Stanislavsky practices and....

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Michael Chekhov and Sanford Meisner: Collisions and Convergence in Actor Training

Michael Chekhov and Sanford Meisner: Collisions and Convergence in Actor....

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Acting Exercises for Non-Traditional Staging: Michael Chekhov Reimagined

Acting Exercises for Non-Traditional Staging: Michael Chekhov Reimagined offers a new set of exercises....

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A Balancing Act: The Development of Energize! A Holistic Approach to Acting

This book presents acting as a mind, body and spirit practice and actors as emotional athletes, spiritual stuntmen and....

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Are YOU the Missing Piece?: Don't Leave a Hole in the World Authored by Viki Winterton

A portion of the proceeds from this book have been donated to SantiagoFoundation.net...

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