This website gives 6 steps you can go through to master difficult acting scenes. The six tips they provide are helpful hints about how to get around common difficulties when acting harder emotions, such as anger or sadness.

This website allows you to read "A Christmas Carol" free online. It's a great way to read the original text without having to buy the book because it has the full text online for free. The site also supplies other books online for free, like an online library.

I watched the movie version of "A Christmas Carol" with Kelsey Grammar and Jennifer Love Hewitt. This version is the one closest to the musical script that we used for the fall musical. An enjoyable movie that helped me visualize the characters and understand the story in another way.

Here's another short video, apart of a mini series about acting, by professional theater director Dr. Charles Grimes that touches on how to tap into your real emotions on stage, and in acting auditions. Helpful for anyone dealing with hard emotions to portray onstage.

This is a short video by professional theater director Dr. Charles Grimes about finding your character while rehearsing monologues by using a outside to inside method. Helpful if you're having a hard time understanding the personality of your character for an audition.

Written by Bruce Miller, the director of acting programs at the University of Miami, this article talks about the skill of listening and reacting on-stage during scenes. Miller starts out by talking about his experience with his freshman acting classes, then goes on to talk about the skills of how to listen and react to the actions and dialogue on-stage and in the moment.

This website provided me with games to help create immediate and reactive character development. I'm enrolled in theatre arts this semester, and some of these games are similar to ones we play. I may even suggest one of these games to play in class.

12/4/13 I found this article on how to make an actor become a three-dimensional character. The Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts Dee Cannon shares the ten questions that actors need to investigate about their character to make them a fully-idealised person instead of just a character's dialogue with a visual of them. The ten questions and Cannon's advice on how to answer the questions through your character's point of view helped me to understand how professional actor's are able to become the character. A couple of the questions reminded me of what I talked about with Jen Allred about how to act my break-up scene in "A Christmas Carol" well. It also gave me other suggestions that I will use the next character I act.