Acting Terminology

5. An unrehearsed scene in your own words.
8. Habits or characteristics of speech that help identify character.
10. What you do or tell yourself in order to create a role. Positive and active choices are better than negative or passive ones.
14. Technique of expressing your real feelings between the phrases of text.
15. Categorizing actors by appearance into roles they are opt to be cast.

1. The procedure of observing the work of actors to determine who is best suited to play a role.
2. A description of a performance where the origin and progression of truthful behavior is evident.
3. a request to return and audition. The director has narrowed down their choices for the role and you're closer to getting the job.
4. The invisible, imagined, or implied wall through which the audience sees the performance.
6. Honest feedback on your work. What worked and what didn't, what we saw and didn't see.
7. A predetermined signal to cause you to act, deliver a line, do stage business, gesture, or move onstage. A prompt.
9. The person you're playing.
11. The real meaning "under the text." The intentions, reality behind character's words.
12. Adjustments and/or critique given by the director.
13. A technique using nonverbal sounds in place of the text or words.