Background
Brestoff, Richard Allen Son of Phillip and Dee Brestoff.
(This is it! The real story of what goes on behind the sce...)
This is it! The real story of what goes on behind the scenes. Camera Smart provides actors with an exclusive and much needed look at the inner workings of a film set. By following an actor on his first day of work you encounter the jargon, the situations, the people, the failures and successes of a real world camera job. It's the next best thing to being there. This book, written with a rare combination of humor and insight covers all aspects of the camera actor's world including a fascinating look at how the new technologies of video games, CD-ROM movies, interactive multi-media and the 500 channel universe will affect that world. Become camera smart yourself so that when you get the job you'll be ready.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1880399768/?tag=2022091-20
(With clarity and insight, Richard Brestoff introduces the...)
With clarity and insight, Richard Brestoff introduces the great acting teachers, explaining their techniques and how ther are applied today. Beginning with Quintilian and Delsarre he guides us to the present with an inside look at what is currently being taught in the major acting schools and private acting studios; The Actor's Studio, Yale University, NYU, Juillard and many more are visited. Great Acting Teachers and Their Methods will help you understand the most important ideas about acting, where they originated and how they are used in training programs today. Some of the teachers focused on are Stella Adler, Stanford Meisner, Lee Strasberg, Brecht, Stanislavsky, and Suzuki.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1575250128/?tag=2022091-20
(Features The Great Acting Teachers and Their Methods, Vo...)
Features The Great Acting Teachers and Their Methods, Volume 2 features the innovative ideas and theories of: •Andre Antoine •Jacques Copeau •Michel Saint-Denis •Elia Kazan •Uta Hagen •David Mamet •Anne Bogart •Keith Johnstone In this follow-up to his first volume that has become an essential classroom text, Brestoff examines all new teachers and exposes the origin of today's ideas and exercises that acting students are practicing. What is the rationale behind the lesson? Why is it useful? Whether they can be called revolutionary or evolutionary, the conflicting theories of these teachers result from outrage and disgust. Andre Antoine, Jacques Copeau and Michel Saint-Denis represent a virtually unacknowledged yet powerful French influence on acting and actor training in the United States and abroad. American Realist teachers known as the passionate questioners, such as Elia Kazan, who is disgusted with Broadway's commercialism, Uta Hagen and David Mamet, and two influential "outside-the-box" teachers, Anne Bogart with her Viewpoints work and Keith Johnstone, creator of Theatre Sports, are also featured. While differences among the various acting theories and practices are noted and analyzed, so too are exciting and unexpected connections among them revealed.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/157525770X/?tag=2022091-20
(In this follow-up to his first volume that has become an ...)
In this follow-up to his first volume that has become an essential classroom text, Brestoff examines all new teachers and exposes the origin of today’s ideas and exercises that acting students are practicing. What is the rationale behind the lesson? Why is it useful? Whether they can be called revolutionary or evolutionary, the conflicting theories of these teachers result from outrage and disgust. Andre Antoine, Jacques Copeau and Michel Saint-Denis represent a virtually unacknowledged yet powerful French influence on acting and actor training in the United States and abroad. American Realist teachers known as the passionate questioners, such as Elia Kazan, who is disgusted with Broadway’s commercialism, Uta Hagen and David Mamet, and two influential “outside-the-box” teachers, Anne Bogart with her Viewpoints work and Keith Johnstone, creator of Theatre Sports, are also featured. While differences among the various acting theories and practices are noted and analyzed, so too are exciting and unexpected connections among them revealed.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00RWSSA6E/?tag=2022091-20
(From the author of The Great Acting Teachers and Their Me...)
From the author of The Great Acting Teachers and Their Methods, Under the Circumstances details a step-by-step approach to playing a part. Based on the work Constantine Stanislavski was using near the end of his life, we follow two actors as a teacher guides them through their parts in Henrik Ibsen's great play, A Doll House. Then we learn how techniques are used for monologues and cold readings. We learn how analysis stems from instinct, from experiencing the character's circumstances without becoming them or speaking their dialogue. Actors memorize "events" and not lines. This approach, never before so clearly explained or engagingly taught, gives actors, from novices to professionals, a reliable, creative, and innovative method for playing a part. Under the Circumstances is a book you will put to immediate use.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1575251876/?tag=2022091-20
Actor performing arts educator writer
Brestoff, Richard Allen Son of Phillip and Dee Brestoff.
Master of Fine Arts, New York University, New York City, 1975. Bachelor in Dramatic Art, University California, Berkeley, 1972.
Associate professor University California, Irvine, since 2003. Actor, 1975—2003.
(Features The Great Acting Teachers and Their Methods, Vo...)
(In this follow-up to his first volume that has become an ...)
(With clarity and insight, Richard Brestoff introduces the...)
(From the author of The Great Acting Teachers and Their Me...)
(This is it! The real story of what goes on behind the sce...)
Member of American Federation of television and Radio Artists, EQUITY, Screen Actors Guild, Academy television Arts and Sciences.
Married Melissa Baird, October 12, 2002. 1 child Jenny Ellis Stevenson-Brestoff.