Bibliography

I’d like to share with you some of the books that have deeply influenced my approach to Acting with Authenticity. As an actor and coach, I've always been fascinated by the human psyche and how we can tap into our deepest emotions to bring a role to life. Over the years, I've read extensively on topics ranging from psychology and neuroscience to spirituality and performance. Studying books have not only helped me develop my own technique, but also inspired me to share my knowledge with others. I hope that by studying some of these works, you'll also find new insights and tools to bring more depth and truth to your acting.

Acting & Performance Craft

  • The Actor's Art and Craft — William Esper & Damon DiMarco (2008)

  • An Actor Prepares — Constantin Stanislavski (1936)

  • The Power of the Actor — Ivana Chubbuck (2004)

  • The Intent to Live: Achieving Your True Potential as an Actor — Larry Moss (2004)

  • A Challenge for the Actor — Uta Hagen (1991)

  • True and False: Heresy and Common Sense for the Actor — David Mamet (1997)

  • Respect for Acting — Uta Hagen (1973)

  • The Art of Acting — Stella Adler (2000)

  • Becoming an Actor-Creator — Nikolai Demidov, ed. Andrei Malaev-Babel & Margarita Laskina (2016)

  • Truth: Personas, Needs, and Flaws in the Art of Building Actors and Creating Characters — Susan Batson (2007)

  • The Authentic Actor — Michael Laskin (2017)

  • Acting with Power — Deborah Gruenfeld (2020)

  • Secrets of Screen Acting — Patrick Tucker (2014)

  • A Practical Handbook for the Actor — Melissa Bruder et al. (1986)

  • Improv for Actors — Dan Diggles (2004)

  • Fine on Acting — Howard Fine (2012)

  • The Lucid Body — Fay Simpson (2010)

  • The Film Director's Bag of Tricks: How to Get What You Want from Actors and Writers — Mark W. Travis (2011)

  • Directing Feature Films: The Creative Collaboration Between Directors, Writers, and Actors — Mark W. Travis (2002)

  • Improvisation for the Theater: A Handbook of Teaching and Directing Techniques — Viola Spolin (1963)

  • Acting and How to Survive It — Peter Feeney (2018)

Psychology & Human Behavior

  • The Inner Game of Tennis — W. Timothy Gallwey (1974)

  • The Wisdom of the Enneagram — Don Richard Riso & Russ Hudson (1999)

  • The Four Agreements — Don Miguel Ruiz (1997)

  • The Untethered Soul — Michael A. Singer (2007)

  • Daring Greatly — Brené Brown (2012)

  • The Art of Possibility — Rosamund Stone Zander & Benjamin Zander (2000)

  • Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking — Malcolm Gladwell (2005)

  • Thinking, Fast and Slow — Daniel Kahneman (2011)

  • The Tipping Point — Malcolm Gladwell (2000)

  • Outliers: The Story of Success — Malcolm Gladwell (2008)

  • What the Dog Saw — Malcolm Gladwell (2009)

  • David and Goliath — Malcolm Gladwell (2013)

  • Talking to Strangers — Malcolm Gladwell (2019)

  • The Origins and History of Consciousness — Erich Neumann (1949)

  • Scattered Minds — Gabor Maté (1999)

  • The Parasitic Mind — Gad Saad (2020)

  • The Art of Being — Erich Fromm (1974)

  • Flow — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (1990)

  • The Evolving Self — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (1993)

  • Finding Flow — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (1997)

  • See What You Made Me Do — Jess Hill (2019)

  • The Gift of Fear — Gavin de Becker (1997)

  • Cleaning Up Your Mental Mess — Dr. Caroline Leaf (2021)

  • Indistractable — Nir Eyal (2019)

  • Limitless — Jim Kwik (2020)

  • Jung’s Map of the Soul — Murray Stein (1998)

  • The Highly Sensitive Person — Elaine Aron (1996)

  • The Highly Sensitive Person’s Guide to Dealing with Toxic People — Shahida Arabi (2020)

  • Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents — Lindsay C. Gibson (2015)

  • The Expectation Effect — David Robson (2022)

  • The Psychology of Money — Morgan Housel (2020)

  • The Power of Wonder — Monica C. Parker (2023)

  • Dark Psychology — Jonathan Mind (2021)

  • Widen the Window: Training Your Brain and Body to Thrive During Stress and Recover from Trauma — Elizabeth A. Stanley (2019)

Neuroscience & Cognitive Science

  • The Brain That Changes Itself — Norman Doidge (2007)

  • My Stroke of Insight — Jill Bolte Taylor (2006)

  • Whole Brain Living — Jill Bolte Taylor (2021)

  • Evolve Your Brain — Joe Dispenza (2007)

  • Retrain Your Brain — Seth J. Gillihan (2016)

  • Cognitive Behavioral Therapy — Jason M. Satterfield (2016)

  • Complex PTSD — Pete Walker (2013)

  • Healing the Shame That Binds You — John Bradshaw (1988)

  • How to Train Your Mind — Chris Bailey (2020)

  • The Master and His Emissary — Iain McGilchrist (2009)

  • Visual Thinking — Temple Grandin (2022)

  • Hacking the Unconscious — Rory Sutherland (2023)