resources
for
actors

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filmmaker resources
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writer resources

Tools and Online Resources for Actors

Accents

IDEA (Internat'l Dialects of English Archive)

Speech Accent Archive

Blogs

Broadway Stars theater news & reviews

Clyde Fitch Report "The nexus of arts and politics" (ed. Leonard Jacobs, Back Stage)

The Producer's Perspective by Broadway producer Ken Davenport

Casting Directors

Click here for a map of NYC CD offices

Casting offices for TV shows that shoot in NYC

Demo Reels

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Actors Reels NYC

Plays/Playwrights

Doollee.com English plays (orig. & trans.) since 1956 

Drama Book Shop

Dramatists Play Services PlayFinder

New York Public Library

Queens Library

Brooklyn Public Library

➠ Shakespeare

First Folio:
First Folio on iTunes

Internet Shakespeare Editions First Folio, etc.

Perseus (Tufts Univeristy)

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Oxford Complete Works

Plot Summaries

Wired for Books free audio Shakespeare plays & more

Pronunciation

Forvo guide for hard-to-find pronunciations (e.g. technical terms or foreign words)

Regional Theaters

Google Docs spreadsheet of Regional Theaters

Improv

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Kim Schultz Improv

Upright Citizens Brigade

Information

IBDb.com Internet Broadway Database

IMDb.com Internet Movie Database

Shoes

Get $40 reimbursement of shoe purchase <$100 from the Actors Fund Conrad Cantzen Shoe Fund

TelePrompTer

Cueprompter.com Online Cue Prompter practice

Translations

Babelfish

Freetranslation.com

I speak and write German; contact me if you need a translation.
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Networking

One On One

Monologues

Karen Kohlhaas's Monologue Audition website check out the Overdone Monologue Survey on the right side.

Voiceover

AudioFile

Audio Publishers Assoc.

Websites

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Actor Fusion (if free website sites just don't cut it)

Lifehacker instructions for embedding PDFs in your own site