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Loren E. Chadima is an award-winning acting coach, filmmaker, and actor. She is recognized as one of the "Best Acting Coaches in the U.S." and is the creator of The 9 Questions of Intentional Acting. Her methods have played a pivotal role in helping hundreds of performers to work alongside renown actors in major films and television.

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In Stop Memorizing Your Lines, acclaimed Director and Acting coach Loren E. Chadima introduces an innovative methodology tailored precisely for the rapid demands of contemporary acting work.

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Acknowledgments

Introduction: How I Went from Throwing Up to a Standing Ovation

1 The Problem with Memorizing Lines by Rote First

2 What Is Technique? And... What Does It Have to Do with Memorizing Lines?

The 9 Questions of Intentional Acting

3 Question #1: What Is the Scene about?

4 Question #2: How Do I Relate to My Character in the Scene? Or What Would It Be Like If It Happened to Me?

QUIZ #1

5 Question #3: What Is the Experience in the Scene? 65

6 Intention: Question #4: What Do I Need the Other Person to Do or Say?

7 Intention: Part 2: Red Flag Intentions: PCRUF and to Leave

8 Motivation: Question #5: Why Do I Need This Intention Right Now?

9 Question #6: What's at Stake If I Don't Get What I Need?

QUIZ #2

10 Question #7: What Am Listening for?

11 Question #8: Who's the Most Important Person in the Scene?

12 Question #9: How Can Doing This Scene Benefit Me?

13 No. You Still Can't Memorize Your Lines. Beat It Out!

14 Now Can I Practice My Lines? Internalization vs.Memorization

QUIZ #3

What's Next?

15 Drop the Script, the Teleprompter, and the Ear Prompt: How to Practice the 9 Questions of Intentional Acting

16 Assessment: How to Pick Your Best Take and Be UNDENIABLE!

17 A New Way to Be an Undeniable Actor

Appendix

About the Author

Quiz Answers

To the Parents/Guardians of Young Actors

Answers: The 9 Questions of Intentional Acting Scream: Gale

Resources

Bibliography

Index