Listening and Talking: A Pathway to Acting provides undergraduate acting students with a clear, achievable, step-by-step way to approach the work of playing a role. The text is supplemented by exclusive video material to take the actor from their first encounter with the text through rehearsals with fellow actors and into performance.

Drawing from the author's twenty years' experience of teaching at the Yale School of Drama, this book, which is influenced, too, by the work of legendary teachers such as Konstantin Stanislavski and Uta Hagen, presents a thorough examination of key aspects of the actor's technique (for example, listening, playing an action and pursuing an objective). Throughout, it includes exercises and process points through which students can put into practice the key lessons from each chapter.

The practices laid out in this book form a holistic curriculum that not only ensures measurable results over a semester- or year-long course, but also sets in motion an internal process that will serve the student over their life as an artist.

Evan Yionoulis is the Richard Rodgers Dean and Director of the Drama Division at The Juilliard School, New York, USA. Before taking take up the post at Juilliard in 2018, Evan was a professor of acting and directing at the Yale School of Drama, USA, where she taught since 1997, served as chair of the department of acting from 1998 to 2003, and was a resident director at Yale Repertory Theatre. She is an Obie Award-winning director whose productions of new works and classics have been performed in New York City, across the United States, and internationally. As a writer, her works include the pieces Redhand Guitar and The Dread Pirate Project. Evan serves on the executive board of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, most recently as president. She has also served as a curriculum consultant for several major BFA programs in the United States. www.evanyionoulis.com