Combining life-coaching and screen-acting techniques in one accessible handbook, this helpful guide empowers actors to overcome personal inhibitions and approach their work, characters and careers with confidence to produce real and believable acting on screen every time. Structured to build absolute confidence and understanding of yourself before you take on a new role and play someone else, this book employs life-coaching techniques to give you the conviction to face a fulfilling but potentially daunting career as an actor. After mentoring you towards self-assurance, Dresner moves on to examine essential elements of a screen actor's craft, such as emotions, imagination, nerves, focus, listening and line-learning. This is a book that not only enables you to shed your inhibitions, but also equips you with the tools and practical thoughts to create powerful, believable characters. Published in partnership with The Actors Centre, A Life-coaching Approach to Screen Acting includes online videos of hands-on coaching sessions between the author and professional actors and is ideal for readers and teachers looking to replicate the method in their own training.