Youth Acting Resources

The tools of an Actor or Actress: Voice, Body, Imagination

Here are resources that might help you to become a better actor!

• Practice lines in a mirror.
• Adding hand gestures to your lines: be sure the hands are up where people can see them, not down below the waist.
• Remember to speak clearly and loud!

Audition Monologues

• shakespeare-monologues.org
• ispgroupinc.com
• monologuearchive.com

Exercises

• Beanbag - project your voice (kinderat.com)
• Mirror - inventiveness and clowning around (kinderart.com)
• Pantomime - communicate without words (kinderart.com)
• Tongue Twister Database The EFL Playhouse
• Theater Games for Kids

Theater Resources

• Contemporary Drama Service
• Playground Theater Company
• Pioneer Drama Service
• Theatre History

Influential Figures in Theater

• Stella Adler (PBS American Masters)
• Sanford Meisner (PBS American Masters)
• Harold Klurman (PBS American Masters)
• Eugene O'Neill (PBS American Masters)
• Neil Simon (PBS American Masters)