Books like Sanford Meisner on acting by Sanford Meisner

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.

A comprehensive manual for acting and theater, discussing improvisation, voice projection, breathing exercises, script analysis, and technical aspects of theater production.

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

"Text by Jerzy Grotowski, interviews with him and other supplementary material presenting his method and training."

You can now experience the same training studied by some of out finest actors, including: Robert Duvall, Joanne Woodward, Diane Keaton, Jeff Goldblum, Mary Steenburgen, Gregory Peck, Jon Voight, Eli Wallach and many others. With a foreword by Academy Award Winner and theatre legend, Horton Foote, this inspiring new book will strengthen in you the most essential and vital skills of great acting! It will lead you to a very personal way of working, as an actor who is absolutely authentic and tremendously simple - so rare in today's theatre. The Sanford Meisner Approach: An Actor's Workbook Volume I is appropriate for any actor, from beginning student to working professional. As you experience the joy of discovery offered in each lesson, the Workbook will awaken within you a profound passion to create and a hunger to express yourself as an artist of the theatre, An Actor!

This book describes techniques developed by Augusto Boal as part of Theatre of the Oppressed. These are theatre techniques used to work with communities and groups, to help members find resolutions to conflicts.