EN 501: MFA Short Residency: Acting for Writers

The following websites and articles may be helpful for diving deeper into the content:

• Jericho Writers: "Show, Don't Tell" 
• Writer Mag: "Anatomy of an antagonist: Writing the ideal villain for your fiction"
• Stage Directions and Blocking Notation
• "The Camera, the Actor, and the Audience" by Richard Hornby
• Arts Alive: Theatre Design and Production (including props, costumes, set, lighting, sound, and stage management)
• "Using Your Voice" from BBC
• Script includes "inside information, articles written by working writers and filmmakers, and in-depth interviews," and "it has been the leading source for information on the craft and business of writing for film and television since 1995."
• "Sonic Vocality: A Theory on the Use of Voice in Character Portrayal" by Cindy Milligan 
• Viola Spolin: a website "devoted to honoring the work of Viola Spolin who codified her theater games into a training method and philosophy that changed the face of American theater for the past four generation."

• Academic Search Complete Designed for academic institutions, this database is a leading resource for scholarly research. It supports high-level research in the key areas of academic study by providing journals, periodicals, reports, books and more.
• Drama Online Library The original Drama Online core collection features 1200 titles from the pre-eminent theatre lists from Bloomsbury's Methuen Drama and Arden Shakespeare imprints, as well as and Faber and Faber Ltd. Production photos from the Victoria and Albert Museum Performance Archive and The American Shakespeare Center are also included.
• Gale Literary Sources Find up-to-date biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on more than 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world. Content includes Literature Resource Center, Twayne's Authors Series, and Scribner Writer Series
• History Reference Center is the world's most comprehensive full text history reference database designed for secondary schools, public libraries, junior/community colleges, and undergraduate research. The database features full text for more than 2,000 reference books, encyclopedias and non-fiction books from leading history publishers.
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• International Bibliography of Theatre and Dance with Full Text is the definitive research tool for the study of theatre and the performing arts. This database was initiated by the American Society for Theatre Research, and since 1984, the Theatre Research Data Center (TRDC) at Brooklyn College has published 14 volumes of the IBTD. These volumes comprise a fully indexed, cross-referenced and annotated databank of over 60,000 journal articles, books, book chapters and dissertation abstracts on all aspects of theatre and performance in 126 countries. International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance with Full Text contains more than 490 full-text titles, including more than 170 full-text journals, and more than 360 full-text books & monographs.
• JSTOR's archival journal collections include more than two thousand journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.
• Literary Reference Center (LRC) is a highly graphical interface intended for public, academic and high school libraries. The primary goal of LRC is to assist high school and undergraduate English and Humanities students with homework and research assignments of a literary nature.
• MLA International Bibliography offers a detailed bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations of literary scholarship. Produced by the Modern Language Association (MLA), the electronic version of the bibliography dates back to the 1920s and contains over 1.8 million citations from more than 4,400 journals & series, and 1,000 book publishers.