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This step-by-step guide demonstrates how to easily create a successful comedy group. By following the techniques in this book, actors will be able to do an end run around casting directors by casting themselves in their own group's productions. Create a Comedy Group is filled with practical advice, production information, resource guides, tips, short cuts, and amusing war stories culled from the author's fifteen plus years of experience in running her own group. By covering every aspect of forming and running a comedy group, this book shows how to develop a profitable acting career by writing, touring, and selling stage shows as comedy product for Cable TV, Network TV, and for film.The author's own experience of creating a group led to her winning a New York Critic's Drama Desk Award for starring in her group's Off-Broadway show El Grande de Coca-Cola, which was televised as an HBO comedy special. Next, Bullshot Crummond was televised by Showtime and then produced as a feature film by George Harrison's HandMade Films under the title Bullshot.Based on her own experience, the author also explains how an actor can go on to leverage a successful solo career using the exposure and experience gained from creating a comedy group.
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Joe Pietz
reviewed The Comedy Group Book on March 23, 2015
The Comedy Group Book
This is not as well known as some other books about acting, and yet it is one of the best. Lewis, of course, is the actor turned director and teacher who began at the Civic Repertory Theatre, was part of the Group Theatre and the Actors Studio, and headed the acting program at Yale for a while. He also delivered the famous series of lectures on acting, "the method" (Stanislavski vs. Strasberg), and American theatre collected in the book Method or Madness?.
His book is practical, including descriptions of useful exercises (complete with amusing stick figures to illustrate physical positions, not that they are really necessary), suggestions for organizing a playscript and useful notes, and further on some pointed essays on preparing a role and acting as a practice. Many of the anecdotes here are recycled in Lewis's memoir, Slings and Arrows: Theater in My Life, but here are useful for illustrating problems and solutions.
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