Golden Rules of Acting

Andy Nyman
Andy Nyman is an actor, writer and magician.
He has appeared in many films, including Severance, Death at a Funeral, The Commuter, Judy and Jungle Cruise. He won the coveted Best Actor Award at the 2006 Cherbourg Film Festival for his performance in indie movie favourite Shut Up and Shoot Me.
On television he has played an incredibly diverse range of roles, including Winston Churchill in Peaky Blinders, Jonty de Wolfe in Channel 4's cult comedy Campus, and Patrick in Charlie Brooker's BAFTA-nominated series Dead Set. Andy has also appeared in many plays, including Martin McDonagh's Hangmen and Mike Leigh's Abigail's Party in London's West End, and Stephen Sondheim's Assassins and the lead role of Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof, both at the Menier Chocolate Factory.

Andy has co-created and co-written many of Derren Brown's television and stage shows alongside Derren. Together they created some of the most notorious and popular TV of the past years, including Russian Roulette, The System, The Heist and The Events, including predicting the National Lottery result. Andy has also co-written and directed most of Derren's stage shows, including Something Wicked This Way Comes, which won them the 2006 Olivier Award for Best Entertainment, and Secret, which won them a 2017 New York Drama Desk Award. Andy has also invented many very popular magic tricks which are performed by magicians the world over. His book of collected magic effects, Bulletproof, was published in 2010.
In 2010, along with Jeremy Dyson, Andy wrote and directed the stage play Ghost Stories. It broke box-office records at theatres and led to two West End runs of thirteen months each, and productions all over the world. In 2018 Andy and Jeremy wrote and directed the feature film version of Ghost Stories, which starred Andy, Martin Freeman, Alex Lawther and Paul Whitehouse. It received incredible reviews worldwide and was 'Certified Fresh' on Rotten Tomatoes.

The Golden Rules of Acting

Categories: Performing Arts   Language: English
Publication Place: United Kingdom   Pages： 128   Size: 178mm × 111mm
Rights Available: Asian Rights

【Feature】
★Over 1,000,000 copies have been sold!
★Praised as the "Bible" in the field of performance!
★Written by Andy Niemann, a senior director, and highly praised and recommended by Huffington Post, The Stage and other media.
★All the processes of the performance are introduced in detail, and a large number of performance strategies and encouraging suggestions are provided for all levels of actors!

【Review】
'Sage advice and wisdom for actors, and non-actors alike... truthful, eye-opening and insightful, reading it feels like getting tips and advice from a friend down the pub; it is a goldmine of information' — Huffington Post

'It's a little book and it's fun. If you get only one useful nugget it will have paid for itself... Worth the cover price for the quotations alone' – The Stage

'Probably the most important book on acting and actors I've ever read; period! Keep it by your bedside at all times!' – Liam Neeson OBE

【Description】
A treasure trove of advice, support and encouragement that no performer should be without. Honest, witty and direct, The Golden Rules of Acting is every actor's best friend in handy paperback form.
'When auditioning, rehearsing or in a performance, take a risk the worst that can happen is that you get embarrassed. You won't die.'
Easy to dip into, fully illustrated throughout, and designed to be both instructive and empowering, The Golden Rules of Acting won't tell you how to act but it will tell you how to be an actor.
'Always remember, the people auditioning you want you to be brilliant. They want you to solve their casting problem.'
If you're a working actor, drama-school student, someone who wants to become an actor, or simply someone who has a dream and wants to make it a reality, this book is for you.  Read More

More Golden Rules of Acting that nobody ever tells you

Categories: Performing Arts   Language: English
Publication Place: United Kingdom   Pages： 128   Size: 178mm × 111mm
Rights Available: Asian Rights

【Feature】
★Winner of Sunday Times Book of the Year.
★The sequel to The Golden Rules of Acting which is sold overver 1,000,000 copies.
★Highly praised and recommended by British Theatre Guide, Broadway World, BBC Radio London and many other media.
★Andy Niemann once again shares his valuable experience in the field of performance for more than 30 years, and gives practical and wise suggestions to readers who have started or are about to start acting career!

【Review】
'Morsels of indisputable wisdom, which should provide much solace for any aspiring actor... practical and sensible suggestions, almost certain to bolster the confidence of anyone seeking to make their way in the business' — British Theatre Guide

'A fantastic tool… an extremely humorous read [which] imparts pearls of wisdom... Nyman's personality lifts off the page, which is a phenomenal attribute to have instilled in his book' — Broadway World

'This book is such a good read… some bits are laugh-out-loud… it applies to all walks of life' — Jo Good, BBC Radio London

【Description】
Andy Nyman's first book, The Golden Rules of Acting, has become a bestseller in the acting world. Now he returns to bring you more priceless nuggets gleaned from more than thirty years in the acting business.
This book will help you to...
• Learn to love auditions and self-tapes (yes, really!)
• Look after your mental health
• Deal with success and failure
• Burst a few bubbles that need bursting
• Written with the same candid wit as his first book, this is every actor's new best friend  Read More