Books like The power of the actor by Ivana Chubbuck

A practical guide to Sanford Meisner’s acting technique, illustrated through fifteen months of classroom work with eight men and eight women, culminating in polished scenes from contemporary plays.

Stella Adler’s classic treatise offers practical exercises and instruction to sharpen the actor’s body, voice, mind, and emotional control, providing a comprehensive framework for mastering performance technique.

The Actor's Art and Craft offers a systematic, step‑by‑step exploration of Sanford Meisner’s technique, developed by William Esper after 17 years of collaboration, with real‑world classroom examples from co‑author Damon DiMarco.

Declan Donnellan's revised "Advice to the Players" offers a fresh, radical approach to acting, cutting through generalizations to reveal lively, intuitive processes that inspire young actors.

A practical guide to Uta Hagen’s influential acting techniques, featuring her famed Object Exercises and lessons in sense memory, identity, and substitution.

A concise, practice‑oriented guide that distills a method developed by young actors working with David Mamet, W.H. Macy and Gregory Mosher, offering clear, objective tools for actors frustrated by unclear teaching.

"Worried about short rehearsal time? Think that fluffing your lines will be the end of your career? Are you afraid you'll be typecast? Is there such a thing as acting too much? How should a stage actor adjust performance for a camera? And how should an actor behave backstage? The Actor's Survival Handbook gives you answers to all these questions and many more. Written with verve and humor, this utterly essential tool speaks to every actor's deepest concerns. Drawing upon their years of experience on stage, backstage, and with the camera, Patrick Tucker and Christine Ozanne offer forthright advice on topics from breathing to props, commitment to learning lines, audience response to simply landing the job in the first place. The book is rich with examples - both technical and inspirational. And because a director and an actor won't always agree, the two writers sometimes even offer alternative responses to a dilemma, giving the reader both an actor's take and a director's take on a particular point. Like Patrick Tucker's Secrets of Screen Acting, this new book is written with wit and passion, conveying the authors' powerful conviction that success is within every actor's grasp."--Publisher's website. The Actor's Survival Handbook gives you answers to all kinds of questions. Written with verve and humor, this utterly essential tool speaks to every actor's deepest concerns.