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In Mythic Imagination and the Actor, Marissa Chibás draws on over three decades of experience as a Latinx actor, writer, filmmaker, and teacher to offer an approach to acting that embraces collective imagination, archetypal work, and the mythic. The book begins with a comparative analysis between method acting and mythic acting, encouraging actors to push past the limits of singular life experience and move to a realm where imagination and metaphor thrive. In the context of mythic acting, the book explores awareness work, solo performance creation, the power of archetypes, character building exercises, creating a body/text connection, and how to be the detective of your own process. Through this inclusive guide for a new age of diverse performers traversing gender, ability, culture, and race, readers are able to move beyond their limits to a deep engagement with the infinite possibilities of rich imagination. The final chapter empowers and motivates artists to live healthfully within the practice and create a personal artistic vision plan. Written for actors and students of acting, American Drama, and film and theatre studies, Mythic Imagination and the Actor provides practical exercises and prompts to unlock and interpret an actor’s deepest creative sources.

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The beauty of this work is that it reminds you that your power is within you. Nataki Garrett, Artistic Director Oregon Shakespeare Festival This book will inform and impact the future of acting training. Dawn Akemi Saito, multi-disciplinary theater artist, faculty at Fordham University and Julliard Drama I cannot recommend Marissa Chibas's book more highly. Daniel Alexander Jones, award winning American performance artist, playwright, director, essayist and educator. This book is filled with exercises to enliven the imagination of the actor. Cynthia Santos-DeCure, actor, voice and dialect professor, Yale School of Drama This Book is a MUST READ . Ron Cephas Jones, Two-time Emmy award winning actor ...deftly releases the full range of an actor's power and imagination... Elaine Avila, Visiting Professor/Playwright in Residence, Pomona College, Quest University, Western Washington University Chibas's book is inherently a decolonial pedagogy. Monica Sanchez, actor, ariter, theater/dance faculty at Colorado College It is the base and the core to my craft. Emilio Garcia Sanchez, CalArts acting alum, known for The Society, Mijo, Criminal Minds I can't express enough the power and duende that is possible when exploring and applying these sacred techniques and exercises Cristina Frias, Actor and Professor of Acting East LA College and UCLA ...it is an incredibly expansive tool for me in my acting process. Andrea LeBlanc, Actor, Associate Dean and co-head of BFA Acting, CalArts ...a clear path for artists to develop integrity in their creative practice while nurturing their capacity to serve as healers and spiritual visionaries. Mirah Love, Interfaith Spiritual Counselor and Artistic Mentor. From current and former students - you will find more in you as a performer than you ever thought possible Adam Peltier, CalArts MFA acting student ....it really taught me how I can incorporate my spirituality, my faith, my beliefs into every character... Terrence Willburn, CalArts acting alum These exercises have reminded me that I do have something to say, that I do have something to offer, and that I am powerful. Sharon Mae, CalArts acting alum ...helped me reconnect to that ancestral, primal urge that made me want to become an actor. Katharine Means, CalArts acting alum The archetypes give the actor a shortcut to an immediate reservoir of emotion and physicality and gesture and energy and sensibility. Hector Alvarez, MFA Directing student CalArts

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Marissa Chibás is a Los Angeles-based writer, filmmaker, actor, educator, and recipient of the TCG Fox Fellowship for Distinguished Achievement. She is on the Theater School faculty at California Institute of the Arts where she is Director of Duende CalArts, an initiative at CalArts Center for New Performance that produces innovative Latinx and Latin American artists. Her work as an actor has been seen on Broadway and on major stages throughout the world and her solo show, Daughter of a Cuban Revolutionary, has toured the U.S., Europe, and Mexico and was published by Routledge Press. For more information, visit www.marissachibas.com.

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