Memory Acting: Memory Techniques for Actors
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Copyright: 2025
Pages: 116
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Copyright: 2025
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Memory Acting offers actors and performing artists the knowledge to understand the "memory problem” and new approaches to develop positive and effective techniques to solve it. More than memory tricks or mnemonics, Memory Acting technique is acting technique - developing the mind of the character and triggering reaction from the dramatic imagination. Developed from principles of modern neuroscience, Memory Acting techniques are designed for all actors and genres of performance.
Ellen M. Rooney, PhD, developed Memory Acting based on her doctoral research on the neuroscience of memory at Bowling Green State University. As a seminar leader-acting coach she has taught internationally in South Korea and China and has presented her research at academic conferences in the UK and US. She is an acting instructor at Cleveland State University, School of Film and Media Arts. Her acting credits span film, theater, and television in New York, Los Angeles, and Cleveland. Degrees earned: PhD in Theater from Bowling Green State University, Ohio; MFA in Dance and MA in Performance Studies from Tisch School of the Arts, NYU: BA in Dance from Denison University, Granville. Ohio.
Memory Acting offers actors and performing artists the knowledge to understand the "memory problem” and new approaches to develop positive and effective techniques to solve it. More than memory tricks or mnemonics, Memory Acting technique is acting technique - developing the mind of the character and triggering reaction from the dramatic imagination. Developed from principles of modern neuroscience, Memory Acting techniques are designed for all actors and genres of performance.
Ellen M. Rooney, PhD, developed Memory Acting based on her doctoral research on the neuroscience of memory at Bowling Green State University. As a seminar leader-acting coach she has taught internationally in South Korea and China and has presented her research at academic conferences in the UK and US. She is an acting instructor at Cleveland State University, School of Film and Media Arts. Her acting credits span film, theater, and television in New York, Los Angeles, and Cleveland. Degrees earned: PhD in Theater from Bowling Green State University, Ohio; MFA in Dance and MA in Performance Studies from Tisch School of the Arts, NYU: BA in Dance from Denison University, Granville. Ohio.