Damon DiMarco

William Esper, one of the leading acting teachers of our time, explains and extends Sanford Meisners legendary technique, offering a clear, concrete, step-by-step approach to becoming a truly creative actor.Esper worked closely with Meisner for seventeen years and has spent decades developing his famous program for actors training. The result is a rigorous system of exercises that builds a solid foundation of acting skills from the ground up, and that is flexible enough to be applied to any challenge an actor faces, from soap operas to Shakespeare. Co-writer Damon DiMarco, a former student of Espers, spent over a year observing his mentor teaching first-year acting students. In this book he recreates that experience for us, allowing us to see how the progression of exercises works in practice. The Actors Art and Craft vividly demonstrates that good training does not constrain actors instinctsit frees them to create characters with truthful and compelling inner lives.

William Esper, one of the most celebrated acting teachers of our time, takes us through his step-by-step approach to the central challenge of advanced acting work: creating and playing a character. Espers first book, The Actors Art and Craft, earned praise for describing the basics taught in his famous first-year acting class. The Actors Guide to Creating a Character continues the journey. In these pages, co-author Damon DiMarco vividly re-creates Espers second-year course, again through the experiences of a fictional class. Espers training builds on Sanford Meisners legendary exercises, a world-renowned technique that Esper further developed through his long association with Meisner and the decades he has spent training a host of distinguished actors. His approach is flexible enough to apply to any role, helping actors to create characters with truthful and compelling inner lives.

Muy pocos profesores de interpretación han logrado desarrollar un método detallado que forme actores verdadera-mente creativos: Sanford Meisner, fallecido en 1997, fue uno de ellos. Su técnica toma al artista como materia prima y construye, partiendo de cero, las habilidades que necesita para despuntar en la interpretacion. Sin embargo, sus enseñanzas se han ido desvirtuando con el tiempo y, a pesar de algunos intentos, no han podido ser compiladas y explicadas en profundidad hasta ahora. Discipulo y mano derecha de Meisner, William Esper ha transmitido y ampliado su tecnica durante decadas, en las que ha sido maestro de interpretes como John Malkovich, Kim Basinger, William Hurt y Kathy Bates. En Arte y oficio del actor, con la ayuda de Damon DiMarco, uno de sus discipulos, Esper nos sumerge en el aula y nos permite asistir, como un alumno mas, a uno de sus fascinantes cursos: aqui participamos de animados debates, contemplamos el reto de la improvisacion, y escuchamos divertidas anecdotas sobre grandes actores. Al tiempo que somos testigos privilegiados de todo el proceso de formacion de un grupo de actores, se van desvelando ante nosotros, de forma ludica y sencilla, los conceptos y ejercicios fundamentales de una tecnica unica.La esencia de este libro es como el propio William Esper: amable/claro, atento/generoso, apasionado/elegante, brillan-te/profundo. Inspirador. Inestimable. Jeff Goldblum

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Muy pocos profesores de interpretación han logrado desarrollar un metodo detallado que forme actores verdaderamente creativos: Sanford Meisner, fallecido en 1997, fue uno de ellos. Su tecnica toma al artista como materia prima y construye, partiendo de cero, las habilidades que necesita para despuntar en la interpretacion. Discipulo y mano derecha de Meisner, William Esper ha transmitido y ampliado su tecnica durante decadas, en las que ha sido maestro de interpretes como John Malkovich, Kim Basinger, William Hurt y Kathy Bates. En Arte y oficio del actor, con la ayuda de Damon DiMarco, uno de sus discipulos, Esper nos sumerge en el aula y nos permite asistir, como un alumno mas, a uno de sus fascinantes cursos.