About the Author

Besides working as a casting director with Joshua Logan, Bob Fosse, Tom O'Horgan, Mike Nichols, Jerome Robbins, Gower Champion, Stuart Ostrow, David Merrick, and others, Michael Shurtleff still finds time to write plays and novels, direct films, teach his famous auditioning course, and regularly see at least a dozen plays and films every week. He does as he advises his readers- "Everyday learn. Learn enough so you can do good theater."

Reviews

“A practical handbook [and] a bible for aspiring actors.”—The New York Times

“Audition is absolutely indispensable to any aspiring or even mildly ambitious actor. There is no book of which I am aware that gives such first-rate, clear-cut, no-nonsense advice.”—Bob Fosse

“What a book! What an achievement! Audition is the only book ever written that makes the reader understand the theatre.”—Joshua Logan

“Immensely useful . . . A distillation of broad how-to-do-it wisdom.”—Variety

“The subject matter is surprisingly universal (everybody has to audition for something sometime) and the inside tales are terrific. . . . What Stanislavsky was to acting, Michael Shurtleff is to auditioning.”—New York Post

“Extraordinary . . . No actor will want to be without it.”—Estelle Parsons


“An education—in theatre savvy, in self-knowledge.”—Publishers Weekly