Spilling Ink: A Young Writer’s Handbook – Anne Mazer and Ellen Potter
Different Every Night – Mike Alfreds
How To Do Shakespeare – Adrian Noble
The Actor and the Target – Declan Donnellan
Year of the King – Antony Sher
Theatre – David Mamet
Being an Actor – Simon Callow
Subsequent Performances – Jonathan Miller
The Osier Cage – Robert O. Evans
A Practical Handbook for the Actor – Vintage Publication
Milissa Burder, Le Michael Cohn, Madeleine Olnek, Nathaniel Pollack, Robert Previta, Scott Zigler
Covering McKellan – David Weston
Loitering with Intent – Peter O’Toole
Auditioning (An Actor-Friendly Guide) – Joanna Merlin
My Life in Pieces – Simon Callow
To the Actor on the technique of acting – Michael Chekhov
Backwards and Forwards – David Ball (great for text analysis. It’s kinda
a technical manual for reading plays)
A sense of Direction – William Ball
A Director Prepares – Anne Bogart
The Empty Space – Peter Brook
Notes on Directing – Frank Hauser and Russell Reich
Acting and How to be good at it – Basil Hoffman
Elements of Play Writing – Louis E Catron
Writing For Your Life – Deena Metzger
Your Name Here – An Actor’s Guide to Solo Performance – Susan Merson
The Hero Within – Carol S Pearson