About the Book:

Warning! It's a fact: If you are not enjoying yourself, the person auditioning you won't enjoy you either!

If true actors live for the process, then why have we collectively agreed that the largest part of it, the audition, is the most dreaded? We actors must, in each moment, be courageous risk takers; freely expressive, and available to our instincts. We want the job. We want it badly! But the worry and dread most of us experience in facing the audition event cripples us and our abilities to be effective.

Larry Silverberg is one of the world's foremost authorities on the Sanford Meisner technique of acting and an internationally acclaimed author. His book Loving to Audition: The Audition Workbook for Actors describes the seven roadblocks preventing us from enjoying this vital piece of the actor's puzzle: comparisons, preparation, talent, time, small talk, trying to guess what they want, and the "they're something, I'm nothing" mentality. All but one of these things is just noise making us crazy and distracting us from the only thing we can control: our preparation.

In Loving to Audition you will learn the essential and vital skills of great auditioning and you will begin to bring your most passionate and creative self into the audition room rather than leaving it outside the door! Most importantly, master teacher Larry Silverberg guides you toward a shift in your experience of auditioning from anxiety and fear, to artistic pleasure, aliveness, and joy!

If you are a student preparing for auditions or a seasoned professional, the lessons offered in Loving to Audition will empower you towards excellence in audition performances.

What people say:

"A sweet and supportive book with powerful and creative exercises. You really might LOVE to audition after a thorough read." — Playbill

"A valuable, adventurous, and enthusiastic entree into the little defined world of auditioning." — Allan Miller, actor, director, teacher, and author

"Silverberg offers specific instructions which will lead to performances at auditions that are powerfully authentic, urgent, and unique." — Internet Bookwatch

About the Author:

Larry Silverberg is a widely renowned authority on the Sanford Meisner technique of acting. He studied with master teacher Sanford Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse School in New York City, and wrote the internationally-acclaimed, four-volume series the Sanford Meisner Approach, widely considered the primary source for training actors at studios worldwide. In addition to being one of the most published acting coaches in the world and an award-winning actor and director, he is also the Master Teacher of Acting and Full Professor at renowned Shenandoah University Conservatory of Theatre.