Resources

Here are some recommended books, authors, websites, videos and other resources you may find helpful. Suggestions are always warmly welcomed. 

• Freeing the Natural Voice by Kristen Linklater
• Voice and the Actor by Cicely Berry
• The Actor and the Text by Cicely Berry
• The Second Circle by Patsy Rodenburg
• The Actor Speaks by Patsy Rodenburg
• Speak with Distinction by Edith Skinner
• Genius Now by Alan Marriott
• Improvise by Mick Napier
• Impro by Keith Johnstone
• Impro for Storytellers by Keith Johnstone
• Laban for Actors and Dancers
• Speech and Drama by Rudolf Steiner
• On the Technique of Acting by Michael Checkhov
• An Actor's Work by Konstantin Stanislavski
• The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell
• The Writer's Journey by Christopher Vogler
• Story by Robert McKee

• Speaking Shakespeare by Patsy Rodenburg
• Freeing Shakespeare's Voice by Kristen Linklater
• Shakespeare's Advice to the Players by Perter Hall
• Speaking the Speech by Giles Block
• Playing Shakespeare by John Barton
• Reading Shakespeare's Sonnets by Don Patterson
• Speak the Speech! by Rhona Silverbush and Sami Plotkin 

• Shakespeare
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• John Donne
• Maya Angelou
• John Keats
• Jonathan Swift
• John Milton
• Emily Dickinson
• Edgar Allan Poe
• Robert Frost
• William Blake
• William Woodsworth
• Rudyard Kipling

• Shakespeare
• Charles Dickens
• Anton Checkhov
• Leo Tolstoy
• Fyodor Dostoevsky
• William Faulkner
• Jane Austen
• Margaret Atwood 

• Shakespeare
• Arthur Miller
• Tennessee Williams
• Anton Checkhov
• Harold Pinter
• David Mamet 

• Oxford Dictionary
• Poem Hunter
• The Poetry Foundation
• Literary Devices

• Brené Brown: The power of vulnerability - TED Talk
• Amy Cuddy: Your body language shapes who you are - TED Talk
• Elizabeth Gilbert: Your elusive creative genius - TED Talk
• Elizabeth Gilbert: Success, failure and the drive to keep creating - TED Talk
• JK Rowling: The fringe benefits of failure - TED Talk
• Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity? - TED Talk