The following are the best resources for this dive, broken down by beginner, intermediate, and advanced.
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BACKSTAGE
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Are you interested in acting? Then look no further because Backstage has you covered. Browse through various acting opportunities, articles, audition notices, and build up the confidence to to go for an actual real life audition. Backstage offers: Remote opportunities, voiceover jobs, self-tape auditions, live webinars, and more. What are you waiting for? Dive in!
Category: Other Apps & Websites
Skill Levels:
- Beginner
- Intermediate
- Advanced
Battle Cries for the Hollywood Underdog
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Read this inspirational book by Monroe Mann & Lou Bortone, designed to provide you with small inspiring bits of wisdom each day to help you stay motivated despite difficulties in your acting pursuit! You will find the Break Diver's Creed inside! No Rules. No Excuses. No Regrets. Make it happen!
Category: Other Books & Resources
Skill Levels:
- Beginner
- Intermediate
- Advanced
The Theatrical Juggernaut: The Psyche of the Star
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Read this best-selling book by the founder of Break Diving, Monroe Mann, about what it takes to succeed as an actor. It has been hailed as one of the most inspiring books for actors ever written. Enjoy!
Category: Other Books & Resources
Skill Levels:
- Beginner
- Intermediate
- Advanced
Acting as a Business
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This is a great book by Brian O'Neil that guides you on how to successfully become a paid actor. You will read about acting from a business point of view and learn how to become a successful actor/actress.
Category: Other Books & Resources
Skill Levels:
- Beginner
- Intermediate
- Advanced
Acting Professionally: Raw Facts about Careers in Acting
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This is a great book by Robert Cohen that approaches the acting career from a very professional standpoint. It explains how to successfully become a professional actor and excel in the acting industry. It also offers counseling on training, career positioning, auditioning, and finding agents.
Category: Other Books & Resources
Skill Levels:
- Beginner
- Intermediate
- Advanced
Acting Techniques Masterclass
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These acting classes provide you with the opportunity to improve your acting skills. You will learn the nine techniques covered in this online class such as the Strasberg Method, Stanislavski Technique, Adler Technique, Meisner Technique, and the Uta Hagen Technique, and much more.
Category: Self-Study
Skill Levels:
- Intermediate
CITY ACADEMY
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City Academy offers courses such as theatre acting, screen acting and Beginners Theatre Company, so that you can learn about acting techniques and tools. It has beginners’ courses for different acting categories such as comedic acting, improvisation and many more.
Category: Video
Skill Levels:
- Beginner
Helen Mirren Masterclass
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Do you know what it means to act naturally? Well, look no further as famed actress Helen Mirren teaches about expressing your natural YOU according to the script, voice control, preparation, rehearsals and acting on a film set. Ready to take your acting skills to the next level? Dive in!
Category: Self-Study
Skill Levels:
- Beginner
- Intermediate
- Advanced
Natalie Portman Masterclass
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Take your acting skills to a whole new level with Natalie Portman, a professional actress herself who will train you on how to be an Oscar winner. This masterclass will teach you how to work with directors, cameraman and how to act in a real play.So what are you waiting for? Dive in!
Category: Self-Study
Skill Levels:
- Beginner
- Intermediate
- Advanced
Samuel L. Jackson Acting Masterclass
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Explore creativity and improve your acting skills with classes designed to enhance your acting with an experienced actor himself, Samuel L. Jackson who breaks down acting methodologies and explains with several examples of different scripts and the ideology behind his method.
Category: Self-Study
Skill Levels:
- Beginner
- Intermediate
- Advanced
SHOEBOX THEATER
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Shoebox Theater offers various beginner courses taught by acting directors to and for adults with little or no acting experience.
Category: Other Apps & Websites
Skill Levels:
- Beginner
THE MICHELLE DANNER LOS ANGELES ACTING SCHOOL
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The Michelle Danner LA Acting School offers the best acting techniques for film acting and auditioning. In-person acting class and online classes are also available to choose from.
Category: Other Apps & Websites
Skill Levels:
- Beginner
Udemy: Acting 101 for Adults
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Explore this great Udemy course that aims to familiarize you with acting techniques and the acting industry. Learn to be the best when it comes to auditions and what to do when you get an acting job. Explore and dive into awesomeness!
Category: Self-Study
Skill Levels:
- Intermediate
Udemy (How to Book Acting Jobs)
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This course teaches on the best ways to secure an acting job as looking for one is kinda hectic. Amy Lyndon, actor and director teaches on the various acting techniques involved that will suit your success in acting.
Category: Other Apps & Websites
Skill Levels:
- Beginner
- Intermediate
- Advanced
UDEMY - Professional 10 Hour Acting MASTERCLASS
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This course offers the following: Get into character at a quickened paceLearn acting for the camera and for the stageObtain a blueprint for how to actually practiceBuild believable and honest charactersLearn to properly run through a scene/scriptWalk into a room with confidenceLearn how to interact with the director/casting directorLearn to practice your acting everydayLearn what it means to be an actorGet a personal foundation for your actingLearn to have fun again/bring YOURSELF to the work
Category: Video
Skill Levels:
- Advanced
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