Monologues from the Edge - (Applause Acting) by Steve Marsh (Paperback)

About the Book

Starting with an understanding that all actors are by nature unconventional, Monologues from the Edge presents performers with a wide range of monologues featuring characters who stand outside social norms and ideas of acceptability.

Book Synopsis

Starting with an understanding that all actors are by nature unconventional, Monologues from the Edge presents performers with a wide range of monologues featuring characters who stand outside social norms and ideas of acceptability.

About the Author

Steve Marsh spent the past twenty years working on plays as an actor, director, dramaturg, and playwright in university theaters and small venues in and around New York City. He served on the Drama Desk Awards nominating committee during the 2014-2015 theater season. As a senior lecturer, he has had the opportunity to practice and profess all manners of theater arts at the State University of New York where he was graduate director of the MFA program in Dramaturgy.

Marsh worked with Alan Alda and the Center for Communicating Science to develop and facilitate communication workshops at dozens of science institutions and universities, and he helps run the Science Playwriting Competition at the Yang Institute of Theoretical Physics. In addition to an MFA in dramaturgy, he holds a BFA in acting from New York University, where he studied with famed acting teacher Lee Strasberg. Marsh has written two award-winning short plays, Hanging On! and My Penny.