Character: The Art of Role and Cast Design for Page, Stage, and Screen

Character and action impinge upon one another, in life as in fiction. A person’s inherent character shapes his or her choices. The opposite is also true: character rises out of choice and action. Interaction between a given personality and a situation of conflict that arises, provoking choice and action—consequently revealing, changing, or deepenin

Life is dialogue, action/reaction.

Characterization is the sum of all observable qualities of a human being,

So what is character? Action is character; a person is what he does, not what he says. Film is behavior. Because we’re telling a story in pictures, we must show how the character acts and reacts to the incidents and events that he/she confronts and overcomes (or doesn’t overcome) during the story line. If you’re writing your script and sense your c

The unique command and grace of the theatre is the dramatization of personal conflict.