Breaking It Down: Audition Techniques for Actors of the Global Majority

Breaking it Down: Audition Techniques for Actors of the Global Majority provides practical guidance for actors to challenge the exclusion and bias in the entertainment industry and embrace their full identities in the audition process. It combines real-world strategies, cultural studies, Black feminist perspectives, and lived experiences to offer intersectional approaches to auditioning.

Format: Hardback
Length: 190 pages
Publication date: 15 August 2021
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Actors of the global majority face unique challenges in the audition process, often being stereotyped or "universalized" by the entertainment industry. To address this, Drs. Nicole Hodges Persley and Monica White Ndounou have written Breaking it Down: Audition Techniques for Actors of the Global Majority, a practical guide that emphasizes the importance of culture, race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and ability in their identity. The book combines real-world audition strategies with cultural studies, Black feminist perspectives, and lived experiences to offer intersectional approaches to auditioning. The ten steps outlined in the book help actors across racial lines develop the necessary skills to break down a character and script while affirming their full selves into the audition to book the role. Building on the momentum of the #BlackLivesMatter, #MeToo, and Times Up movements, Breaking It Down emboldens actors of the global majority to embrace every aspect of their identities rather than leaving themselves behind in an effort to gain entry and access to the entertainment industry.

Weight: 372g
Dimension: 146 x 221 x 19 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781538137079