Table of Contents

1. Re/Gaining Trust: The "System" and the System of Actor Training

Sylvan Baker, Zuri Eshun and James Palm

A Reflection on Re/Gaining Trust: Revelation and Responsibility

Joe Wilson, Jr

2. Black British Perspectives, Pedagogy and Power: Addressing the Canon through S.P.H.E.R.E.

Gemma Crooks and Erica Jeffrey

3. Logunedé in Salem: Making Sense of Stanislavsky’s Last Experiments in Contemporary Brazil

Diego Moschkovich

4. Emotion Memory versus Physical Action: Towards Anti-racist Pedagogies that Make Way for Critical Praxis

Evi Stamatiou

5. Breaking Away: Latinidad and Moving Beyond the "System"

Marissa Chibás, Michelle Jasso and Tlaloc Rivas with Siiri Scott

A Reflection on Breaking Away: Looking through All Kinds of Windows

Sandra Marquez

6. A Jewish Journey: Stanislavsky’s "System" to the American Method

Conrad Cohen

7. The Intracultural Project: Creating an Inclusive Rehearsal Room Beyond Stanislavsky

Kristine Landon-Smith and Dominic Hingorani

A Reflection on The Intracultural Project: Mabuhay as an Act of Resistance

James Cooney

8. Stanislavsky, Rose McClendon and Reparations: Whiteness, Professionalization and Reframing Amateurism in the Theater of the United States

Amy Steiger

9. I Ain’t Studyin’ Stanislavsky: We Are the Key to Reimagining 21st-Century Actor Training

Monica White Ndounou

About the Author

Siiri Scott is a Chicago actor/director and serves as the Head of Acting and Directing and a Professor of the Practice in the Department of Film, Television and Theatre at the University of Notre Dame, USA.

Jay Paul Skelton is a lecturer on the MA/MFA Actor Training and Coaching programme at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, UK, and has taught at RADA, Rose Bruford, Kingston University and the University of Notre Dame London Global Gateway.