Focal Press The Expressive Actor: Integrated Voice, Movement and Acting Training

The Expressive Actor from Focal Press presents a foundational, preparatory training method, using movement to unlock the entire acting process. Its action-based perspective integrates voice, movement, and basic acting training into a unified approach. A wealth of exercises and diagrams guide the reader through this internationally taught program, making it an ideal step-by-step course for both solo and classroom use. Through this course, voice and body training becomes more than a simple skill-building activity. Rather, it is the central prerequisite to any actor training.

This new Focal Press/Routledge edition (1st edition) has been updated to include a revised prologue further discussing the historical and philosophical grounding of The Lugering Method; a new introduction, with particular focus on the integrative nature of the method and how the book should be used, new developments, clarifications, 12 new exercises, and six new illustrative diagrams.

Author Michael Lugering is the founding director of the Expressive Actor, a non-profit arts organization committed to integrated methods of actor training, and a professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He has taught master classes in acting, voice, movement, and classical text throughout the US, Korea, and the UK.